MATH009 Problem Set 1 (Prelim Period)

Due on November 27, 2013 (for MWF class)

and on November 28, 2013 (for TTh class)

Directions: Please copy and answer the following completely. Write your (handwritten) solutions in
short bond papers and include a cover page with the correct format.

1. After graduation ceremonies at a university, six graduates were asked whether they were in favor
of (identified by 1) or against (identified by 0) the legalization of divorce in the country. Some
information about these graduates is shown below.

Graduate Gender Age Divorce Issue Class Rank
Anna F 22 1 1
Ben M 20 1 2
Carmela F 31 0 3
Don M 27 0 20
Erica F 23 1 4
Floyd M 25 1 8


a. How many units are there in the data set?
b. How many variables are there in the data set?
c. How many observations are there in the data set?
d. Which of the above variables (Gender, Age, Divorce Issue, Class rank) are qualitative
and which are quantitative variables?
e. Are arithmetic operations appropriate for the variable "divorce issue"?


2. The following shows the temperatures (high, low) in
o
F and weather conditions in a given Sunday
for some selected world cities. For the weather conditions, the following notations are used:
C = clear; CL = cloudy; SH = showers; PC = partly cloudy.

City Hi Lo Condition
Acapulco 99 77 PC
Manila 92 78 PC
Mexico City 77 57 SH
Montreal 72 56 PC
Paris 77 58 C
Rome 88 68 CL
Toronto 78 61 C

a. How many units are there in the data set?
b. How many variables are there in the data set?
c. How many observations are there in the data set?
d. Name the variables and indicate whether they are qualitative or quantitative.
e. For which variables are arithmetic operations appropriate and for which are they not
appropriate?




3. A private research organization studying families in various countries reported the following data
for the amount of time 4-year-old children spent alone with their fathers each day.


Country
Time with Dad
(minutes)
Belgium 30
Canada 46
China 54
Finland 50
Germany 36
Nigeria 42
Sweden 46
Philippines 48
United States 42

For the above sample, determine the following measures: mean, median, mode.


4. According to the journal Chemical Engineering, an important property of a fiber is its water
absorbency. A random sample of 20 pieces of cotton fiber was taken and the absorbency on each
piece was measured. The following are the absorbency values:

18.71 21.41 20.72 21.81 19.29 22.43 20.17 23.71 19.44 20.50
18.92 20.33 23.00 22.85 19.25 21.77 22.11 19.77 18.04 21.12

a. Calculate the sample mean.
b. Calculate the sample variance and sample standard deviation.
c. Compute the 40
th
percentile, the 3
rd
quartile, and the 8
th
decile. Interpret your results.


5. Prove the following summation identities:

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1
=

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x x
b. ( )

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6. Consider the data given below as our population. In a study of wrap breakage during the weaving
of fabric, one hundred pieces of yarn were tested. The number of cycles of strain to breakage was
recorded for each yarn and the resulting data are given in the following table. Here we have a
population of size N = 100.

86
146
251
653
98
249
400
292
131
169
175
176
76
264
15
364
195
262
88
264
157
220
42
321
180
198
38
20
61
121
282
224
149
180
325
250
196
90
229
166
38
337
66
151
341
40
40
135
597
246
211
180
93
315
353
571
124
279
81
186
497
182
423
185
229
400
338
290
398
71
246
185
188
568
55
55
61
244
20
284
393
396
203
829
239
236
286
194
277
143
198
264
105
203
124
137
135
350
193
188

a. Label the observations in the population from 1 to 100, starting from the first row,
reading from left to right. Hence, x
1
= 86, x
2
= 175, x
3
= 157, ., x
99
= 143, and
x
100
= 188.

b. Using your scientific calculators random number generator, draw a simple random of size
n = 10 without replacement.

c. Estimate the population mean by the value of the sample mean. Compute the population
mean for this data set and solve the sampling error.