Exam 4: Descriptive Statistical Measures

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Use the spreadsheet below to answer the following question(s). Below is the table showing rate of shoes sold per day and the highest-priced shoe sold that day for a one-week period.The rate of shoes sold per day (X)and the price of the shoes (Y). Shoes sold in \% () Price (Y) 15 \ 48 27 \ 55 10 \ 40 13 \ 88 25 \ 53 9 \ 47 18 \ 40 -Use Excel to calculate the z-score of X observation 27.

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Using Chebyshev's theorem for standard deviation, calculate the percentage of data that lie within five standard deviations of the mean.

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Calculate the coefficient of variation from the following data: Z-score = 1.32; standard deviation = 0.173; mean = 4.7; total variation = 0.6

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How is the return to risk described in financial statistics?

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If the distribution of observations are such that mode < median < mean, the histogram would be said to be negatively skewed.

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Use the spreadsheet below to answer the following question(s). Below is the table showing rate of shoes sold per day and the highest-priced shoe sold that day for a one-week period.The rate of shoes sold per day (X)and the price of the shoes (Y). Shoes sold in \% () Price (Y) 15 \ 48 27 \ 55 10 \ 40 13 \ 88 25 \ 53 9 \ 47 18 \ 40 -Use Excel to calculate the correlation between variables X and Y.

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A z-score of 1.0 means that ________.

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Which of the following is true of midspread?

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Use the table below to answer the following question(s). Below is a table showing the costs per order of items bought by a computer hardware store. Supplier Item Description Cost per Order Aloham Technologies Monitors \ 250 Aloham Technologies Hard Disks \ 220 Aloham Technologies Power Supply \ 88 Aloham Technologies Graphics Card \ 300 Aloham Technologies Processor \ 325 Aloham Technologies Speakers \ 88 MindRoot Hardwares Flashdrive \ 9 MindRoot Hardwares Graphics Card \ 299 MindRoot Hardwares CD-ROM \ 88 MindRoot Hardwares Bluetooth Device \ 80 -Calculate the median for the cost per order data.

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Which of the following describes standard deviation?

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Use the spreadsheet below to answer the following question(s). Below is the table showing rate of shoes sold per day and the highest-priced shoe sold that day for a one-week period.The rate of shoes sold per day (X)and the price of the shoes (Y). Shoes sold in \% () Price (Y) 15 \ 48 27 \ 55 10 \ 40 13 \ 88 25 \ 53 9 \ 47 18 \ 40 -Use Excel to calculate the variance of X.

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The measure of location that specifies the middle value when the data are arranged from least to greatest is the ________.

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Which of the following is a similarity between a midrange and a mean?

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The following table lists the amounts paid in mortgages as a percentage of the household income in the town Aponia.Calculate the variance and standard deviation of the data, if mean is given as 22.4%.The percentage (x)values are estimated as midpoints of each percentage range. Mortgage as a percentage of household income in Aponia Group in \% Percentag e (x) Number of households (f) 0-10 5 4567 10-20 15 6562 20-30 25 3356 30-40 35 2975 40-50 45 1644 50-60 55 1376

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Which of the following cases require the mean of a sample to be calculated using the formula = xˉ=i=1NfixiN\bar{x}=\frac{\sum_{i=1}^{N} f_{i} x_{i}}{N} ?

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The ________ is the average of the greatest and least values in the data set.

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The value of a coefficient of skewness falling between 0.5 and -0.5 indicates relative symmetry.

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Which of the following describes dispersion in statistics?

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Which of the following is an example of a subset?

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