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    Final Exam Review Questions ("Big Problems")

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    This document contains 7 practice exam questions covering a variety of statistical topics: 1. A study of the effect of display windows on customer traffic at local businesses. 2. A study of the effects of a new blood pressure treatment on patients. 3. A proposed study of student attitudes toward faculty at their school. 4. A study examining calories burned during exercise using various vitamins. 5. Questions about the normal distribution as it relates to the lifetime of electronic devices. 6. A study of the relationship between years worked and salary for school employees. 7. A survey examining living arrangements of young adults based on gender.

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    Final Exam Review Questions (big problems)

    1. A committee on community relations in a college town plans to work with local


    businesses about the importance of display windows for their products. 25 out of the
    120 businesses in the town were selected at random and asked to record the number
    of customers visiting their stores without a display window for one month. The
    businesses then created a display window and recorded the number of customers
    again for one month.
    a.
    b.
    c.
    d.
    e.

    Identify the sample.


    Identify the population.
    What is the response variable?
    What is the explanatory variable?
    Is this an observational study or an experiment?

    2. A new blood pressure reducing treatment was given to 200 patients with high blood
    pressure (bp). The results of the study are:
    Effect of Treatment
    Marked decrease in bp.
    Moderate decrease in bp.
    Slight decrease in bp.
    No change or slight increase in bp.

    Number
    100
    75
    10
    15

    Construct a relative frequency bargraph


    of this data. Write a few sentences
    describing this data.

    3. You want to investigate the attitudes of students at your school toward the facultys
    commitment to teaching. The Student Government will pay the costs of contacting
    about 500 students. Describe HOW you will select a SRS in this situation.
    4. In a study of vitamins promoted to provide endurance and increase muscle hydration,
    the number of calories burned in a 20 minute workout were recorded. The data are:
    230
    230

    250
    250

    160
    180

    180
    140

    170
    170

    200
    200

    140
    140

    170
    160

    a) Construct a stem and leaf diagram for this data.


    b) Describe the shape of this distribution.
    c) Compute (i) the sample mean
    deviation
    (iii) the sample median

    220
    160

    510
    220

    (ii) the sample standard


    (iv) the interquartile range

    d) Construct a boxplot and discuss any outliers.


    e) What numerical measures would you choose to describe the center and spread of this
    data? Give reasons.
    5. Apple Electronics makes IPods. Their research department found that the life of the
    shuffle device is normally distributed with a mean of 6500 hours and a standard deviation
    of 525 hours.
    a) What percent of laser beam devices will last at most 7000 hours?
    b) What percent of laser beam devices will last between 5500 hours and 6800 hours?

    c) The best 15% of the laser beam devices fail in over

    hours?

    6. The relationship between how long a teacher works, and their annual salary (SALARY in thousands

    of dollars) and for 20 Baltimore County employees o is to be investigated.


    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10
    11
    12
    13
    14
    15
    16
    17
    18
    19
    20

    Years working
    5
    7
    15
    35
    10
    6
    25
    30
    2
    10
    15
    5
    7
    22
    18
    26
    29
    40
    2
    5

    Salary
    38
    42
    50
    95
    45
    40
    70
    80
    32
    48
    52
    40
    45
    60
    58
    72
    75
    90
    38
    38

    a) Construct a scatterplot of this data.


    b) Describe the association for the scatterplot.
    c) Compute the equation for the least squares line. Identify your variables.
    d) Identify the values of the slope ______________ and intercept
    ___________________ for your equation.
    e) Use the equation of the least squares line to predict the salary of an
    employee who has been employed for 10 years.
    f) Identify the coefficient of determination and interpret it in the context of
    this problem.

    7. A survey by the National Institute of Health asked a random sample of young adults
    (aged 19-25), where do you live now? That is, where do you stay most often? Here is the
    full two-way table (omitting a few who refused to answer and a few homeless)
    Female Male
    Parents home
    923
    986
    Another persons home
    144
    132
    Own place
    1294
    1129
    Group quarters
    127
    119
    Use the Table below to help you perform calculations fill in the missing cells!

    Female

    Male

    Parents
    Home

    923

    986

    Another
    persons
    home

    144

    132

    1294

    1129

    127

    119

    Living
    Place
    Total

    Expected
    Male

    Female

    (O E ) 2
    E

    Own Place

    Group
    Quarters

    Total

    X2 =

    Are the young men and women choices of living places significantly different? Use = 10%.
    (Hypotheses, Assumptions, Calculations, Conclusion!)

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