Tugas Kelompok ke-1

(Minggu 1 / Sesi 2)

Team 5 :
1. Alief Fauzia Amalia (2001644092)
2. Eli Junianti Tanjung (2001626562)
3. Muhammad Labib Khairi (2001650196)
4. Hafiz Dzulfikar (2001648664)
5. Martin Luter

INTRODUCTION: DATA AND STATISTICS

1. Conde Nast Traveler magazine conducts annual survey of subscribers in order to

determine the best places to stay throughout the world. Table 1.6 shows a sample of nine
European hotels (Conde Nast Traveler, January 2000). The price of standard double room
during the hotels high season ranges from $ (lowest price) to $$$$ (highest price). The
overall score includes subscribers evaluations of each hotels rooms, service, restaurants,
location/atmosphere, and public areas; a higher overall score corresponds to a higher
level of satisfaction.
a. How many elements are in this data set?
b. How many variables in this data set?
c. Which variables are qualitative and which variables are quantitative?
d. What type of measurement scale is used for each of the variables?

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Answer :
a. There are 9 elements on data set above.
b. There are 4 variables on data set above.
c. There is 2 variable qualitative which are country and room rate and 2 variable
quantitive which are number of rooms and overall score.
d. Country : Nominal, Room Rate : Ordinal, Number of rooms : ratio and overal
score : ratio.
2. Refer to Table 1.6.
a. What is the average number of rooms for the nine hotels?
b. Compute the average overall score.
c. What is the percentage of hotels located in England?
d. What is the percentage of hotels with a room rate of $$?
Answer :
a. Average number of rooms = total all rooms : total elements
Average number of rooms = 808 : 9 = 89.7 rooms
b. Average overall score = total score : total elements
Average overall score = 732.1 : 9 = 81.34.
c. Percentage of hotels located in England = (total hotel in england : total
elements)x100%
Percentage of hotels located in England = (2:9)x100% = 22.22%.
d. Percentage of hotels with a room rate of $$ = (4:9)x100% = 44.44%.

3. In the fall of 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger challenged Governer Gray Davis for the
governorship of California. A policy Institute of California survey of registered voters
reported Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead with an estimated 54% of the vote
(Newsweek, September 8, 2003).
a. What was the population for this survey?
b. What was the sample for this survey?
c. Why was a sampe used in this situation? Explain
Answer :
a. Population of this survey is Registered Voters in California
b. Sampel for this survey is all registered voters contacted by the policy institute.

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 c. Because this survey is not the actual election. In order to determine quick result that
might be happened and can represent of Californian People choice, sample used to
make quick mapping on what will happened or what might represent. There will be no
time to ask every registered voters in California who will they vote, besides it will be
very expensive to make survey for all californian voters. With this result, both
candidate can make decision on their strategy for winning the election.
4. CSM Worldwide forecasts global production for all automobile manufacturers. The
following CSM data show the forecast of global auto production for General Motors,
Ford, Daimler Chrysler, and Toyota for the years 2004 to 2007 (USA Today, December
21, 2005). Data are in millions of vehicles.

a. Construct a time series graph for the years 2004 to 2007 showing the number of
vehicles manufactured by each automotive company. Show the time series for all
four manufacturers on the same graph.
b. General Motors has been the undisputed production leader of automobile since
1931. What does the time series graph show about who is the worlds biggest car
company? Discuss
c. Construct a bar graph showing vehicles produced by automobile manufacturer
using the 2007 data. Is this graph based on cross-sectional or time series data?

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Answer :
a. Time Graph is below :

b. From the graph above, we can see that General Motors, lowering their production
from 2004 untill 2007, while we can see that Toyota has increasing number of
automobile production over the years and beating General Motors in 2006. So, Toyota
will be the leader and become the biggest car company starting from 2006.
c. A bar graph showing vehicles produced by automobile manufacturer using the 2007
data cosidered as cross sectional data because it represents many subjects at the same
point of time. Below is the bar generated for 2007.

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5. Discuss the differences between statistics as numerical facts and statistics as a discipline or
field of study.
Answer :
Statistics as numerical facts refer to numerical facts or data such as averages, medians,
percents, and index numbers that used to describe an event, occurrence or phenomena.
Statistics as a discipline or field of study involved much more than numerical facts. It is
defined as collecting, analyzing, presenting, and interpreting data.

Source : Anderson, David R., Sweeney, Dennis J., Williams, Thomas A. (2011). Statistics for
Business and Economics. 11th Edition. Cengage Learning. USA. ISBN: 978-0538481649.
Chapter 1, Pages 1-25

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