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Statistics Exam: Analysis & Probability

This document contains a midterm exam for a statistics for management course. It includes 7 questions covering topics such as identifying categorical and numerical variables, organizing data into frequency tables, calculating statistical measures like the mean, median, and mode, determining data skewness, probability, combinations and permutations, and contingency tables. The exam assesses both computational and conceptual statistical skills needed for management.

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Statistics Exam: Analysis & Probability

This document contains a midterm exam for a statistics for management course. It includes 7 questions covering topics such as identifying categorical and numerical variables, organizing data into frequency tables, calculating statistical measures like the mean, median, and mode, determining data skewness, probability, combinations and permutations, and contingency tables. The exam assesses both computational and conceptual statistical skills needed for management.

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Mid Term Examination

Statistic for Management


Exam B

1. For each of the following variables, determine whether the variable is categorical or numerical. If
the variable is numerical, determine whether the variable is discrete or continuous. In addition,
determine the measurement scale for each variable.
a. Most likely time period during which shopping for clothing takes place (weekday, weeknight,
or weekend)
b. Number of pairs of shoes owned

2. The following data give the weekly amounts spent on groceries for a sample of households in rural
Wisconsin.

a. How many classes would you recommend?


b. Organize the data into a relative frequency and cumulative frequency table distribution.
(you can make it into one table instead of two table)

3. The file contains the overall miles per gallon (MPG) of 2010 small SUVs:

a. Calculate the mean, median and mode from the data


b. Compute the 5 summaries of data and draw the box plot
c. Determine the skewness/shape of the data

4. The ages of a sample of Canadian tourists flying from Toronto to Hong Kong were:
32, 28, 60, 47, 54, 17, 72, 55, 30, 45

a. Compute the sample mean


b. Compute the sample standard deviation.
c. Determine the skewness/shape of the data

5. Let 𝑃(𝑋) = 0.3 and 𝑃(𝑋 ∩ 𝑌) = 0.30. X and Y are independence. What is the probability of
either 𝑿 or 𝒀 occurring?

6. A national pollster has developed 15 questions designed to rate the performance of the President
of the United States. The pollster will select 10 of these questions. How many different
arrangements are there for the order of the 10 selected questions?
7. Consider the following contingency table:

Calculate the following problems

a. 𝑃(𝐴|𝐵)
b. 𝑃 (𝐵) and 𝑃(𝐴)
c. Determine if 𝑃(𝐴) and P(B) independence or dependence

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