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!)