Chapter 2: Q-2- 122E (page 131)
Question: Construct a scatterplot for the data in the following table.
Variable 1: 5 3 -1 2 7 6 4 0 8
Variable 2: 14 3 10 1 8 5 3 2 12
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Answer:
The graph is given below:

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Chapter 2: Q-2- 122E (page 131)
Question: Construct a scatterplot for the data in the following table.
Variable 1: 5 3 -1 2 7 6 4 0 8
Variable 2: 14 3 10 1 8 5 3 2 12
Answer:
The graph is given below:

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Question: Performance of stock screeners.Refer to the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) statistics on stock screeners, Exercise 2.44 (p. 95). Annualized percentage return on investment (as compared to the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index) for 13 randomly selected stock screeners are reproduced in the table.
(9.0, -.1, -1.6, 14.6, 16.0, 7.7, 19.9, 9.8, 3.2, 24.8, 17.6, 10.7, 9.1)
a.Find the range of the data for the 13 stock screeners. Give the units of measurement for the range.
b.Find the variance of the data for the 13 stock screeners. If possible, give the units of measurement for the variance.
c.Find the standard deviation of the data for the 13 stock screeners. Give the units of measurement for the standard deviation
U.S. business bankruptcies.The American Bankruptcy Institute and the National Bankruptcy Research Center monitor the number of business bankruptcy filings each quarter. The table below lists the number of business bankruptcy filings for each quarter of a recent 2-year period. FILING
a.Explain why the data in the table represent time series data.
b.Construct a time series plot for the quarterly number of bankruptcy filings.
c.Do you detect a trend in the time series plot? Explain.
Year | Quarter | Number of Bankruptcies |
2011 | 1 2 3 4 | 12,376 12,304 11,705 11,149 |
2012 | 1 2 3 4 | 10,998 10,374 9,248 9,231 |
Blue- vs. red-colored exam study. In a study of how external clues influence performance, university professors gave two different forms of a midterm examination to a large group of introductory students. The questions on the exam were identical and in the same order, but one exam was printed on blue paper and the other on red paper (Teaching Psychology, May 1998). Grading only the difficult questions on the exam, the researchers found that scores on the blue exam had a distribution with a mean of 53% and a standard deviation of 15%, while scores on the red exam had a distribution with a mean of 39% and a standard deviation of 12%. (Assume that both distributions are approximately mound-shaped and symmetric.)
a. Give an interpretation of the standard deviation for the students who took the blue exam.
b. Give an interpretation of the standard deviation for the students who took the red exam.
c. Suppose a student is selected at random from the group of students who participated in the study and the student’s score on the difficult questions is 20%. Which exam form is the student more likely to have taken, the blue or the red exam? Explain.
The amount spent on textbooks for the fall term was recorded for a sample of five university students. The following data were observed: \(400, \)350, \(600, \)525, and $450. Calculate each of the following values for this data:
a.The sample mean
b.The sample median
c.The sample range
d.The standard deviation
Defects in new automobiles.Consider the following data from the automobile industry. All cars produced on a particular day were inspected for defects. The 145 defects found were categorized by type as shown in the accompanying table.
Defect Type | Number |
Accessories Body Electrical Engine Transmission | 50 70 10 5 10 |
a.Construct a Pareto diagram for the data. Use the graph to identify the most frequently observed type of defect.
b.All 70 car body defects were further classified as to type. The frequencies are provided in the following table. Form a Pareto diagram for the type of body defect. (Adding this graph to the original Pareto diagram of part a is called exploding the Pareto diagram.) Interpret the result. What type of body defect should be targeted for special attention?
Body Defect | Number |
Chrome Dents Paint Upholstery Windshield | 2 25 30 10 3 |
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