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Chapter 10: Q77 - Exercises (page 686)

Flight times Emirates Airline offers one outbound flight from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to Doha, Qatar, and one return flight from Doha to Dubai each day. An experienced Emirates pilot suspects that the Dubai-to-Doha outbound flight typically takes longer. To find out, the pilot collects data about these flights on a random sample of 12 days. The table displays the flight times in minutes.

  1. Explain why these are paired data.

  2. A dot plot of the difference (Outbound–Return) inflight time for each day is shown. Describe what the graph reveals aDubbout whether the outbound or return flight takes longer, on average.

  3. Calculate the mean difference and the standard deviation of the differences. Interpret the standard deviation.

Short Answer

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Data is paired as it is going and return time of same flight. Dot plot confirms that outbound time > return time. Mean Differences = 10.083; Standard Deviation =10.766

Step by step solution

01

Paired Data 

Paired data is defined as sets of data acquired from same individual sample units at different periods of time.

Like, it usually includes data before and after a treatment.

Here, the same flight is being observed for outbound and return time on same route. So, it is paired data.

02

Dot Plot Interpretation 

The dot plot represents that most of the differences of outboundtime-returntimeare positive. It denotes that outbondtime>returntime.

Hence, the pilot's anticipation is correct.

03

Mean Difference 

Mean Difference =Sumofdifferences/Numberofdifferences

Outbond (Dubai to Doha)Return (Doha to Dubai)Difference (Outbond - Return)
75
4233
42375
623725
634419
544212
46406
524111
50446
42411
46424
4348-5
52484

Mean = [33+ 5+....-5+ 4]÷12121/12=10.083

04

Difference's Standard Deviation and Interpretation 

Standard Deviation = (xi-x')2∑(xi-x')2/(n-1)wherexi=individualdifferences,x'=meandifference,n=numberofsampleunits

OutbondReturnDifference(xi-x')2
754233(33-10.083)2=525.189
4237525.837
4348-5227.497
5248437.003

Similarly, by summing all the sum of deviations, we get

[(33-10.083333333333)2+...+(4-10.083333333333)2]/11=10.766

Standard deviation value denotes how scattered or spread the differences are around the mean standard difference, on an average.

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