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Mathematical Problems

Q:1 chap 3) in Odette school of business, In the mom department we have boys to girls ratio 40:60. And the sample gender ration was the same as the population. Out of the 50 MOM students. the supervisor of TIM Horton randomly selected 40 students. (chapter 3) A) B) C) D) What is the population? What is the number of boys and girls in the sample? What kind of sampling technique is it? Is there any wrong with the sampling? Explain.

Q:2 chap 3) A survey was conducted amongst the students living school residence. 80 students were randomly selected to respond a online questionnaire about the quality of food at market place. 60 students responded to the questionnaire with their response A . is the sampling frame correct? If not why? b. What number of students account as subjects and respondents.

Q:3 chapt4) Construct a bar chart using the following information: 40% of MOM students took financial accounting , 20% took logistics, 15% took English and 10% took HRM and 7% took statistics and 8% took others. Q :2- chapter 2)What is the data measured over time which has an equally spaced time interval.. Q: chap 2) Q: what are the different acquisition consideration? Q 4: chap 4) what kind of data presentation charts is more specific and clear? a. b. c. d. Q: chapt 5) a. Symmetric b. Left skewed c. Right skewed Pie chart Bar chart Frequency table Contingency table

d. None of the above Q: chap5) calculate mean, median and mode: of the following data: 8, 4, 5,7,8,9,7,8,10,8,8,5 Q: chap5) which one of the following is incorrect? A. B. C. D. HISTOgram depicts the categorical variable Always choose a scale appropriate to data Dont compute numerical summaries of a categorical variable Avoid inconsistent scales

Q: chapt5) what is the unit for z score? Q:4 chap 6) if a box contains 8 yellow marbles, 4 green marbles and 5 black marbles, what is the probability of selecting a green marble from the box without looking? Q 4: chap 6) shaded are can be best describe as a. b. c. d. P(A)+P(B) P(AUB) P(A)+P(B)-P(A and B) P(A n B)

Q:5 chap 5 ) A sample of 15 monthly sales figures (in thousands of dollars) are: 7, 8, 10, 6, 5, 10, 9, 7, 10, 9, 6, 8, 9, 6, and 6. What is the coefficient of variation? Q: chapt6) can the probability of 2 events combined, be greater than 1? If no then explain. Q: chap6) what is the probability of getting a sum of 9 from two throws of a dice? a. 1/6 b. 1/8 c. 1/9 d. 1/12 Q:6: chap 5) On average Mr. X visits Calgary 10 times a year to see his mother with a standard deviation of 1.5 what would be the z score of Mr.X going 7 times a year?

Q: CAHPT7) what is the range of correlation of co-efficient ? a. 0 to 1 b. -1 to 1

c. -1 to 0 d. 1 to 2 Q: chap7) what is lurking variable? Q: c hap7) ACCORdijng to the correlation properties which of the following is incorrect? a. b. c. d. Correlation is always between 1 to -1 Correlation has no units Correlation is affected by changes in the centre or scale of either variable Correlation measures the strength of linear association of between two variables

Q:7- chapt 7) A researcher was assuming that the students who are good in statistics are also good in Logistics. So he randomly selected 10 Mid term marks of MOM students for both statistics and Logistics and compared the results. The data is given in the table: Statistics 95 90 84 82 70 72 80 65 a) b) c) d) Logistics 88 94 90 85 75 68 78 70

Make a scatter-plot for these data Describe the direction , form and strength of the plot Check the assumptions and conditions for correlation Find the correlation year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Q: chap 8) companys turnover ($ doller) 560.70 480.60 573.16 659.78 660.13 Using this data, find a linear model to predict sales.

Q:chap 8) wind mobile wanted to examine whether the purchase of their service is related to their customers monthly income or not. The linear regression is

Purchase = 25.5 + 0.05 Income a) b) c) d) e) What is the explanatory variable? What is the response variable? What does the slope mean in this context? What do you predict the purchase to be if the average income was $2000? If the total purchase turned out to be $130 for a income of $2000, what would the residual be?

Q:9) Last year in Windsor 40 road accident is reported. If the number of road accident for the last 12 months is independent and the mean has not changed, what is the probability of having a month in Windsor with each of the following: a) No Accident? b) 2 Accidents?

Q: chap9) a standard normal distribution has a. b. c. d. Mean= variance Variance = 1, mean = 1 Mean =0, variance =1 Mean = 0, standard deviation =0

Q: Chap 9) Microwave oven 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Days 80 35 65 70 35 20 60 ---------------------365 Q : Calculate sd and variance. Q:1) Classify the following examples whether they are Qualitative (nominal/ordinal) or Quantitative (interval/ratio):

Hair Color, , Grades in school (A, B, C, D) area code, Years we born , color of building, number of people who has a car, minutes that we have been in the class, Size of auto-mobile (sub compact, zip codes, compact, full size, mid size), actual weight of me, social security no, course no, political party, SAT score, marital status, college courses, Awards in a contest (1st, 2nd, 3rd), Rating scale (bad to Very good), House hold income (low, medium, high), Temperature comparison, money, speed of my car,

Q:2) What is the difference between conditional and marginal distribution? Q:3) What is the difference between mutually exclusive and independent events?

Chapter 1 Q: what does statistics explain? Q: what are different kinds of applications of statistics in business? What all area we apply statistics? Q: what are the 3 steps of doing statistics? Chapter 2 Q: what are the scale of measurement? Which scale is always numeric? What is the difference between ratio and interval? Q: what are the different acquisition consideration? Q: what is the frame with respect to data? Q: name the scale of measurement in order of hierarchy? Q: what are the types of variable? What is the difference between time series and cross sectional ? Q: how subjects/participants is different from respondents? Q: explain a data and data sets with an example. And also explain how an observation is a part of data set? Q: why would census not provide the best possible information about population? Q: identify the following statements by assigning them by following data. Q: what is the difference between target and sampled population? Q: what is the similarity between cluster and stratified sampling?

Q: what are three different ideas of sampling? Explain each? Q: what is a sample statistics? What is population parameter?

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