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    This document contains 9 questions regarding statistics concepts such as frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, probability, and more. Question 1 asks about relative frequencies and percentages in a frequency table on house helpers. Question 2 examines measures of central tendency for employee years worked. Question 3 calculates a weighted GPA. The remaining questions cover additional topics like variance, skewness, quartiles, probability, and joint/conditional probability.

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    This document contains 9 questions regarding statistics concepts such as frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, probability, and more. Question 1 asks about relative frequencies and percentages in a frequency table on house helpers. Question 2 examines measures of central tendency for employee years worked. Question 3 calculates a weighted GPA. The remaining questions cover additional topics like variance, skewness, quartiles, probability, and joint/conditional probability.

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    BUS102 – MTA Revision (Week 4)

    Question 1:

    In a survey aiming to study the number of house helpers per family in a certain
    geographic area of a city, the following data was collected.

    Number of house helpers Number of Families


    0 45
    1 15
    2 12
    3 3
    Total 75

    a) Find the relative frequency for each category (group).


    b) How many families have at least 2 helpers?
    c) What is the percentage of families who have NO house helpers?

    Question 2:

    A company's human resource department was interested in the average number of years
    :that a person works before retiring. The sample of size 10 follows

    16 19 20 22 22 22 23 24 25 27

    a) What is the Arithmetic Mean?


    b) What is the median?
    c) What is the Mode?
    d) Based on the values of the arithmetic mean, median, and mode, what is the most
    likely shape of the distribution?
    e) Find the sample variance.

    Question 3:

    Find the weighted average (GPA) of the grades for the following student:

    Credits Grade Course


    3 B+ (3.5) EL111
    4 B (3.0) BUS101
    4 A (4.0) BUS102
    3 C (2.0) GR101
    +

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    Question 4:

    In a small company the hourly rate for 20 employees are grouped in the following
    frequency distribution table:
    Class
    2 2 Frequency
    f.(M-X) (M-X) M-X f.M Midpoin Class
    (f)
    t (M)
    4 $0 up to $10
    6 $10 up to $20
    1 $20 up to $30
    6 $30 up to $40
    3 $40 up to $50
    20 Total

    a) Fill in the above table.


    b) Find the mean of hourly rate.
    c) Find the variance of hourly rate.

    Question 5:

    The research director of a large oil company studied the buying habits of consumers with
    respect to the amount of gasoline purchased at full-service pumps. The arithmetic mean
    amount is 12.5 gallons and the median amount is 11.75 gallons. The standard deviation of
    .the sample is 5.4 gallons
    a) What is the Pearson's coefficient of skewness?
    b) Describe the skewness of the distribution based on the computed coefficient.

    Question 6:

    A telemarketing firm is monitoring the performance of its employees based on the


    number of sales per hour. One employee had the following sales for the last 20 hours.

    8 4 4 4 6 5 6 2 5 9
    8 4 5 5 4 4 8 8 4 4

    a) What is the first quartile for the distribution of number of sales per hour?
    b) What is the third quartile for the distribution of number of sales per hour?
    c) What is the inter-quartile range for the distribution of number of sales per hour?
    d) Construct a boxplot.

    Question 7:

    A random sample of 200 adults was selected and the results of the number of minutes
    spent watching television per are shown below.

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    BUS102 – MTA Revision (Week 4)

    Average time spent watching TV


    90 – Over 60 – up to 90 30 – up to 60 0 – up to 30
    Total Gender
    minutes minutes minutes minutes
    100 12 23 35 30 Male
    100 8 17 25 50 Female
    200 20 40 60 80 Total

    a) If an Adult is selected at random, what is the probability that the adult spends less
    than 30 minutes watching TV? 
    b) If an Adult is selected at random, what is the probability of being a male and he
    spends 60 to 90 minutes watching TV? 
    c) Given that the selected adult is a female, what is the probability that she spends 90
    minutes and more watching TV?
    d) Knowing that the selected adult spends less than 60 minutes watching TV, what is
    the probability of being a male?

    Question 8:

    In a group of 90 players, 40 are wearing blue T-shirts, 30 are wearing red T-shirts and 20
    are wearing green T-shirts.

    a) Find the probability that a person picked at random is wearing a red or a green T-
    shirt.
    b) Find probability that a person picked at random is neither wearing a red nor a
    green T-shirt

    Question 9:

    22 customers are eating dinner at an Italian restaurant. Of the 22 customers, 18 order


    pizza, 10 order a salad, and 8 order pizza and a salad. What is the probability that a
    customer orders pizza or a salad?

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