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    The document contains a quiz with 3 questions on descriptive statistics. Question 1 asks about the mode, median and mean of bedrooms, bathrooms and rooms of houses in a suburb. Question 2 asks about determining the 15th percentile of waiting times at a cafe. Question 3 asks about determining the first, second and third quartiles of average monthly data usage from broadband reports.

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    BM1918

    QUIZ ON DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS


    NAME: Obina, Althea Mari SECTION: DATE: SCORE:

    Quiz (3 items x 5 points)


    1. A firm of architects is attempting to get a feel for the sizes of houses in Colton's suburb in the city of Baycoast
    because it has been commissioned to design a house in Colton. Using their contacts at Baycoast City Real Estate
    Agents, the architects are provided with information on a sample of 13 houses. Compute the mode, median, and
    mean for the number of bedrooms. Calculate the mean, median, and modal number of bathrooms and the
    number of all rooms. Interpret the results.
    House no. Suburb Bedrooms Bathrooms All rooms
    110 Colton 2 1 5
    112 Colton 2 1.5 5
    108 Colton 2 1 5
    117 Colton 2 1.5 6
    100 Colton 2 1 5
    89 Colton 2 2 6
    96 Colton 3 1.5 6
    94 Colton 3 1 7
    93 Colton 3 1.5 6
    113 Colton 3 1.5 6
    102 Colton 3 1.5 7
    114 Colton 4 2 8
    115 Colton 5 2 9

    Answer:

    Mean Mode Median

    Bathroom Bathroom- 1.5 Bathroom- 1.5


    All Rooms- 6 All rooms- 6
    1.46

    All Rooms

    6.23

    09 Quiz 1 *Property of STI


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    BM1918

    1. Determine the 15th percentile of the waiting times of the sample of café customers presented in the table below.
    Interpret the results.

    7 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 12 14 14 15

    Answer:
    I= P (n) = 15 (16)
    100 100

    = 2.4

    The 15th Percentile is 8

    2. An investor in the telecommunications industry has been provided with some questionable information in a
    prospectus regarding market potential in New Zealand, particularly about potentially over-optimistic statements
    made about the average monthly download usage for broadband connections. The investor obtains data from recent
    reports on usage from a variety of sources. The average monthly data usage by a household with broadband
    connections listed in a random sample of 12 such reports is as stated as follows, sorted by usage. Interpret the results.

    Average monthly
    100 110 120 130 140 150 160 160 170 180 190 190
    data usage (GB)

    Determine the first, second, and third quartiles for these data.

    Answer: I= 25 (12) P25= 120 + 130


    100 2

    =3 P25 = 125

    P50= 150 + 160 I= 25 (18) P75= 170 + 180


    2 100 2

    P50 = 155 =9 =175

    Quartile 1 = 125
    Quartile 2 = 155
    Quartile 3 = 175

    Rubric for grading:

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