Chapter 3: Q5 (page 124)
In Exercises 5鈥8, express all z scores with two decimal places.
ATL Data Speeds For the Verizon airport data speeds (Mbps) listed in Data Set 32 鈥淎irport Data Speeds鈥 in Appendix B, the highest speed of 77.8 Mbps was measured at Atlanta鈥檚 (ATL) international airport. The complete list of 50 Verizon data speeds has a mean of x = 17.60 Mbps and a standard deviation of s = 16.02 Mbps
a. What is the difference between Verizon鈥檚 data speed at Atlanta鈥檚 international airport and the mean of all of Verizon鈥檚 data speeds?
b. How many standard deviations is that [the difference found in part (a)]?
c. Convert Verizon鈥檚 data speed at Atlanta鈥檚 international airport to a z score.
d. If we consider data speeds that convert to z scores between -2 and 2 to be neither significantly low nor significantly high, is Verizon鈥檚 speed at Atlanta significant?
Short Answer
a. The difference between Atlanta airport鈥檚 speed and the mean speed is equal to 60.20 Mbps.
b. The difference between Atlanta airport鈥檚 speed and the mean speed is 3.76 standard deviations
c. The z-score value for the given speed equal to 77.8 Mbps is obtained as 3.76.
d. The speed at Atlanta airport equal to 77.8 Mbps is significantly high.