Unit 1 Lesson 6 Assignmen

 1) On the first day of finals 20 students at La Platta College were randomly selected. They were asked how many hours they had slept the night before. The results, in hours, were 

 8 6 5 6 4 3 5 8 7 7 5 6 2 0 5 7 6 6 7 8 

Find the median and 5 number summary by hand . Show all of your work for full credit. Draw a box plot as well. 

Min = ______ Q1 = _______ Med. = _______ Q3 = ________ Max = ______ 

 2) A survey was mad to determine the number of hamburgers sold by McFarland hamburger stands during August in the Denver metropolitan area. For each of the seven McFarland stands, the number of hamburgers (in thousands) is as follows:

 18 7 5 9 12 5 6 

Make a stemplot of the data. Which measure of CENTER should you used based on your stemplot? Why? Find center of the data with the measure you chose. 

3) Last year a small accounting firm paid each of its five clerks $22,000, 2 junior accountants $50,000 each, and the firm’s owner $270,000. What is the mean salary paid at this firm? How many employees earn less than that mean? What is the median salary?

 4) A news article reports that of the 411 players on National Basketball Association rosters in February 1998, only 139 “made more than the league average salary” of $2.36 million. Is $2.36 million the mean or median salary for NBA players? How do you know?

.5) Find the 5 Number summaries for Predators and Non-predators using the given stem plots. Draw both boxplots and then write a few sentences comparing the two distributions.

 Display 2.48 shows a back-to-back stemplot for the average life spans of predators and nonpredators.              Predators                     Nonpredators

                                             1                  0               34 

                                           75                0             556788

                                         22222           1              0002222

                                          65               1                555555 

                                                         2                0000           

                                         5                 2      

                                                          3                    5                    

                                                        4                     1 

1    5 stands for 15 years non-predators

 6    1 stands for 16 years predators 

 6) How much do users pay for Internet access? Here are the monthly fees (in dollars) paid by a random sample of 50 users of commercial Internet service providers in August 2000

: 9  20  40  22  22  21  21  20  10  20  20

20  13  18  50  20  18  15  8  22  25

 22 10  20  22  22  21  15  23  30 12

 9  20  40  22  29  19  15  20  20  20 

 20 15 19  21  14  22  21  35  20  22

 (a) Make a stemplot of these data. Briefly describe the pattern you see. About how much do you think America Online and its larger competitors were charging in August 2000? Are there any outliers? 

(b) To report a quick summary of how much people pay for Internet service, do you prefer x and s or the five-number summary? Why? Calculate your preferred summary. 

 7) A household’s “net worth” is the total value of the hoSummarize the main points in the Data Warehouse Project plan

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