Chapter 2: Q123E (page 131)
Question: Construct a scatterplot for the data in the following table.
Variable 1: 5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 Variable 2: 2 1 3 4 6 10 9 12 17 17 |
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Answer:
The graph is given below:

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Chapter 2: Q123E (page 131)
Question: Construct a scatterplot for the data in the following table.
Variable 1: 5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 Variable 2: 2 1 3 4 6 10 9 12 17 17 |
Answer:
The graph is given below:

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Voltage sags and swells.Refer to the Electrical Engineering(Vol. 95, 2013) study of power quality (measured by鈥渟ags鈥 and 鈥渟wells鈥) in Turkish transformers, Exercise 2.96(p. 116). For a sample of 103 transformers built for heavyindustry, the mean and standard deviation of the numberof sags per week were 353 and 30, respectively; also, themean and standard deviation of the number of swells perweek were 184 and 25, respectively. Consider a transformerthat has 400 sags and 100 swells in a week.
a.Would you consider 400 sags per week unusual, statistically? Explain.
b.Would you consider 100 swells per week unusual, statistically? Explain.
Answer the following questions about the variability of data sets:
a.What is the primary disadvantage of using the range to compare the variability of data sets?
b.Describe the sample variance using words rather than a formula. Do the same with the population variance.
c.Can the variance of a data set ever be negative? Explain. Can the variance ever be smaller than the standard deviation? Explain.
Jamming attacks on wireless networks. Refer to the International Journal of Production Economics (Vol. 172, 2016) study of U.S. military jamming attacks on wireless networks used by terrorists, Exercise 1.16 (p. 50). Recall that 80 recent jamming attacks were classified according to network type (WLAN, WSN, or AHN) attacked and number of channels (single- or multi-channel) of the network. The results are summarized in the accompanying table.
Network Type/ | Number of |
WLAN / Single | 31 |
WSN / Single | 13 |
AHN / Single | 8 |
WLAN / Multi | 14 |
WSN / Multi | 9 |
AHN / Multi | 5 |
Total | 80 |
a. Construct a Pareto diagram for the data. Interpret the results.
b. Construct a pie chart for network type only. Interpret the results.
Spreading rate of spilled liquid.A contract engineer atDuPont Corp. studied the rate at which a spilled volatileliquid will spread across a surface (Chemical EngineeringProgress, January 2005). Assume 50 gallons of methanol
spills onto a level surface outdoors. The engineer used derived empirical formulas (assuming a state of turbulent-freeconvection) to calculate the mass (in pounds) of the spillafter a period of time ranging from 0 to 60 minutes. The calculatedmass values are given in the table. Is there evidenceto indicate that the mass of the spill tends to diminish astime increases?
Support your answer with a scatterplot.
Calculate the mean and median of the following grade point averages:
3.2, 2.5, 2.1, 3.7, 2.8, 2.0
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