Exam 2: Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Methods

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Recently an advertising company called 200 people and asked them to identify the company that was in an ad running nationwide.They obtained the following results.

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A company collected the ages from a random sample of its middle managers,with the resulting frequency distribution shown below. Class Interval Frequency 20 to <25 8 25 to <30 6 30 to <35 5 35 to <40 12 40 to <45 15 45 to <50 7 What is the relative frequency for the largest interval?

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A histogram that tails out toward larger values is ___________.

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A relative frequency curve having a long tail to the right is said to be ___________.

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If there are 30 values in a data set,how many classes should be created for a frequency histogram?

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The general term for a graphical display of categorical data made up of vertical or horizontal bars is called a(n)___________.

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The number of items rejected daily by a manufacturer because of defects for the last 30 days are: 20,21,8,17,22,19,18,19,14,17,11,6,21,25,4,19,9,12,16,16,10,28,24,6,21,20,25,5,17,8 How many classes should be used in constructing a histogram?

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A _____________ displays the frequency of each group with qualitative data and a _____________ displays the frequency of each group with quantitative data.

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A graphical portrayal of a quantitative data set that divides the data into classes and gives the frequency of each class is a(n)___________.

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A company collected the ages from a random sample of its middle managers,with the resulting frequency distribution shown below. Class Interval Frequency 20 to <25 8 25 to <30 6 30 to <35 5 35 to <40 12 40 to <45 15 45 to <50 7 What is the midpoint of the third class interval?

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The following is a relative frequency distribution of grades in an introductory statistics course.

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The US local airport keeps track of the percentage of flights arriving within 15 minutes of their scheduled arrivals.The stem-and-leaf plot of the data for one year is below. 76 9 77 114 78 79 07 80 88 81 2 82 1 83 88 How many flights were used in this plot?

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Recently an advertising company called 200 people and asked them to identify the company that was in an ad running nationwide.They obtained the following results.

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The following is a relative frequency distribution of grades in an introductory statistics course.

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________ can be used to study the relationship between two variables.

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Each stem of a stem-and-leaf display should be a single digit.

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It is possible to create different interpretations of the same graphical display by simply using different captions.

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The following is a partial relative frequency distribution of grades in an introductory statistics course. Grade Relative Frequency A .22 B ? C .18 D .17 F .06 Find the relative frequency for the B grade.

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A histogram that tails out toward smaller values is ___________.

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The number of items rejected daily by a manufacturer because of defects for the last 30 days are: 20,21,8,17,22,19,18,19,14,17,11,6,21,25,4,19,9,12,16,16,10,28,24,6,21,20,25,5,17,8 Complete this frequency table for these data.

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