Exam 2: Descriptive Statistics: Tabular and Graphical Presentations

You are given the following data on the ages of employees at a company. Construct a stem-and-leaf display. Specify the leaf unit for the display.

Exhibit 2-2 Information on the type of industry is provided for a sample of 50 Fortune 500 companies. -Refer to Exhibit 2-2. The relative frequency of industries that are classified as banking is

Exhibit 2-3 The number of sick days taken (per month) by 200 factory workers is summarized below. -Refer to Exhibit 2-3. The cumulative relative frequency for the class of 11  15

Exhibit 2-1 The numbers of hours worked (per week) by 400 statistics students are shown below. -Refer to Exhibit 2-1. If a cumulative frequency distribution is developed for the above data, the last class will have a cumulative frequency of

Two hundred members of a fitness center were surveyed. One survey item stated, "The facilities are always clean." The members' responses to the item are summarized below. Fill in the missing value for the frequency distribution.

Categorical data can be graphically represented by using a(n)

Exhibit 2-3 The number of sick days taken (per month) by 200 factory workers is summarized below. -Refer to Exhibit 2-3. The number of workers who took at most 10 sick days per month

Which of the following graphical methods is not intended for quantitative data?

A tabular summary of data showing the percentage of items in each of several nonoverlapping classes is a

The minimum number of variables represented in a bar chart is

Missy Walters owns a mail-order business specializing in clothing, linens, and furniture for children. She is considering offering her customers a discount on shipping charges for furniture based on the dollar-amount of the furniture order. Before Missy decides the discount policy, she needs a better understanding of the dollar-amount distribution of the furniture orders she receives. Missy had an assistant randomly select 50 recent orders that included furniture. The assistant recorded the value, to the nearest dollar, of the furniture portion of each order. The data collected is listed below. a. Prepare a frequency distribution, relative frequency distribution, and percent frequency distribution for the data set using a class width of $50. b. Construct a histogram showing the percent frequency distribution of the furniture-order values in the sample. c. Develop a cumulative frequency distribution and a cumulative percent frequency distribution for this data.

A sample of 50 TV viewers were asked, "Should TV sponsors pull their sponsorship from programs that draw numerous viewer complaints?" Below are the results of the survey. (Y  Yes; N  No; W  Without Opinion) a.Construct a frequency distribution and a bar chart. b.Construct a relative frequency distribution and a pie chart.

Exhibit 2-3 The number of sick days taken (per month) by 200 factory workers is summarized below. -Refer to Exhibit 2-3. The cumulative percent frequency for the class of 16  20 is

In a crosstabulation

When using Excel to create a __________ one must edit the chart to remove the gaps between rectangles.

A common graphical presentation of quantitative data is a

There are 800 students in the School of Business Administration. There are four majors in the School: Accounting, Finance, Management, and Marketing. The following shows the number of students in each major. Develop a percent frequency distribution and construct a bar chart and a pie chart.

In constructing a frequency distribution, as the number of classes are decreased, the class width

Exhibit 2-4 A survey of 400 college seniors resulted in the following crosstabulation regarding their undergraduate major and whether or not they plan to go to graduate school. -Refer to Exhibit 2-4. What percentage of the students' undergraduate major is engineering?

To construct a bar chart using Excel's Chart Tools, choose __________ as the chart type.