Exam 2: Organizing and Visualizing

SCENARIO 2-17 The following table presents total retail sales in millions of dollars for the leading apparel companies over a two-year period in the past. APPAREL COMPANY Year 1 Year 2 Gap 1,159.0 962.0 TJX 781.7 899.0 Limited 596.5 620.4 Kohl's 544.9 678.9 Nordstrom 402.6 418.3 Talbots 139.9 130.1 AnnTaylor 114.2 124.8 -Referring to Scenario 2-17, in general, retail sales for the apparel industry have seen a modest growth between Year 1 and Year 2.

SCENARIO 2-14 The table below contains the number of people who own a portable Blu-ray player in a sample of 600 broken down by gender. Own a Portable Blu-ray player Male Female Yes 96 40 No 224 240 -Referring to Scenario 2-14, ________ percent of the 600 were males who owned a portable Blu-ray player.

SCENARIO 2-14 The table below contains the number of people who own a portable Blu-ray player in a sample of 600 broken down by gender. Own a Portable Blu-ray player Male Female Yes 96 40 No 224 240 -Referring to Scenario 2-14, ________ percent of the 600 were females.

Data on the number of credit hours of 20,000 students at a public university enrolled in a Spring semester were collected. Which of the following is the best for presenting the information?

SCENARIO 2-15 The figure below is the ogive for the amount of fat (in grams) for a sample of 36 pizza products where the upper boundaries of the intervals are: 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30. -Referring to Scenario 2-15, roughly what percentage of pizza products contains less than 10 grams of fat?

SCENARIO 2-14 The table below contains the number of people who own a portable Blu-ray player in a sample of 600 broken down by gender. Own a Portable Blu-ray player Male Female Yes 96 40 No 224 240 -Referring to Scenario 2-14, construct a table of column percentages.

SCENARIO 2-19-B You are the quality control manager of a water bottles company. One of the biggest complaints in the past years has been the breakage and, hence, the concern on the durability of the connector between the lid and the bottle which many users use as a handle for the bottles. To collect evidence before implementing any modification to the production process, your department has subjected 50 water bottles to a durability test and the following data on the number of times the handles have been used to lift the bottles before they break are contained in the file Scenario2-19-DataB.XLSX. 493 506 515 491 500 505 517 510 506 503 503 491 495 496 496 505 493 486 504 483 514 494 497 501 493 490 510 494 494 495 494 486 495 506 506 507 502 498 510 501 500 505 492 486 501 496 501 521 510 498 -Referring to Scenario 2-19-B, based on the cumulative percentage polygon or cumulative percentage distribution constructed using "480 but less than 487" as the first class, the percentage of bottles with handles that broke after being used for lifting fewer than 494 times would be ________.

SCENARIO 2-7 The Stem-and-Leaf display below contains data on the number of months between the date a civil suit is filed and when the case is actually adjudicated for 50 cases heard in superior court. S Stem Leaves 1 234447899 2 22223455678889 3 0011135778 4 02345579 5 112466 6 158 -Referring to Scenario 2-7, the civil suit with the longest wait between when the suit was filed and when it was adjudicated had a wait of ________ months.

SCENARIO 2-5 The following are the duration in minutes of a sample of long-distance phone calls made within the continental United States reported by one long-distance carrier. Time (in Minutes) Relative Frequency 0 but less than 5 0.37 5 but less than 10 0.22 10 but less than 15 0.15 15 but less than 20 0.10 20 but less than 25 0.07 25 but less than 30 0.07 30 or more 0.02 -Referring to Scenario 2-5, if 10 calls lasted 30 minutes or more, how many calls lasted less than 5 minutes?

SCENARIO 2-12 The table below contains the opinions of a sample of 200 people broken down by gender about the latest congressional plan to eliminate anti-trust exemptions for professional baseball. For Neutral Against Totals Female 38 54 12 104 Male 12 36 48 96 Totals 50 90 60 200 -Referring to Scenario 2-12, ________ percent of the 200 were females who were either neutral or against the plan.

SCENARIO 2-12 The table below contains the opinions of a sample of 200 people broken down by gender about the latest congressional plan to eliminate anti-trust exemptions for professional baseball. For Neutral Against Totals Female 38 54 12 104 Male 12 36 48 96 Totals 50 90 60 200 -Referring to Scenario 2-12, _______ percent of the 200 were not neutral.

SCENARIO 2-12 The table below contains the opinions of a sample of 200 people broken down by gender about the latest congressional plan to eliminate anti-trust exemptions for professional baseball. For Neutral Against Totals Female 38 54 12 104 Male 12 36 48 96 Totals 50 90 60 200 -Referring to Scenario 2-12, construct a table of row percentages.

SCENARIO 2-10 The histogram below represents scores achieved by 200 job applicants on a personality profile. -Referring to the histogram from Scenario 2-10, ________ percent of the job applicants scored below 50.

SCENARIO 2-11 The ordered array below resulted from selecting a sample of 25 batches of 500 computer chips and determining how many in each batch were defective. Defects 1 2 4 4 5 5 6 7 9 9 12 12 15 17 20 21 23 23 25 26 27 27 28 29 29 -Referring to Scenario 2-11, if a frequency distribution for the defects data is constructed, using "0 but less than 5" as the first class, the frequency of the "20 but less than 25" class would be ________.

SCENARIO 2-5 The following are the duration in minutes of a sample of long-distance phone calls made within the continental United States reported by one long-distance carrier. Time (in Minutes) Relative Frequency 0 but less than 5 0.37 5 but less than 10 0.22 10 but less than 15 0.15 15 but less than 20 0.10 20 but less than 25 0.07 25 but less than 30 0.07 30 or more 0.02 -Referring to Scenario 2-5, if 100 calls were sampled, _______ of them would have lasted less than 15 minutes.

A side-by-side bar chart is two histograms plotted side-by-side.

SCENARIO 2-14 The table below contains the number of people who own a portable Blu-ray player in a sample of 600 broken down by gender. Own a Portable Blu-ray player Male Female Yes 96 40 No 224 240 -Referring to Scenario 2-14, if the sample is a good representation of the population, we can expect _______ percent of the males in the population will own a portable Blu-ray player.

SCENARIO 2-7 The Stem-and-Leaf display below contains data on the number of months between the date a civil suit is filed and when the case is actually adjudicated for 50 cases heard in superior court. S Stem Leaves 1 234447899 2 22223455678889 3 0011135778 4 02345579 5 112466 6 158 -Referring to Scenario 2-7, the civil suit with the fourth shortest waiting time between when the suit was filed and when it was adjudicated had a wait of ________ months.

SCENARIO 2-20-B A recent consumer survey on holiday shopping reveals the following information on the types of stores at which consumers plan to shop (The table is also available in the file Scenario2-20- DataB.xlsx: Types of Stores \% of Customers Stand-alone "big box" stores 54 Traditional mall 61 Local independent stores not in a mall 35 Strip mall or mini mall 25 Town hall mall 14 I do not plan to shop at any of these 9 -Referring to Scenario 20-20-B, the category "I do not plan to shop at any of these" makes up ____ % of the 6 categories of shopping preferences.

You have collected information on the market share of 5 different search engines used by U.S. Internet users in a particular quarter. Which of the following is the best for presenting the Information?