MACT 2222: Fall 2017

Assignment 2
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Question 1
For a sample of size 15 women, here are the numbers of their children:

3 5 2 1 4 3 5 4 0 1 2 6 4 0 2

a. The sample mean =

b. The sample median =

c. The sample mode =

d. The sample standard deviation =

e. The coefficient of variation =

f. If we add 2 to each number of children, then:

1) The sample mean is:

(a) 2 (b) the same (c) decreased by 2

(d) increased by 2 (e) divided by 2 (f) multiplied by 2

2) The sample variance is:

(a) the same (b) 4 (c) multiplied by 4

(d) increased by 4 (e) divided by 4 (f) multiplied by 2

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Question 2
Records of a factory were used to calculate the following measures for the distribution of the
number of days absent in 2012 for both male and female employees

Mean Median Standard deviation

Male 14.62 15.82 2.00

Female 17.16 16.32 2.10

(a) Compare the relative dispersion between male & female.

(b) Which of the statements 1, 2, or 3 is true?

1. The distributions for both males and females are positively skewed.

2. The distribution for males is negatively skewed while that for females is positively skewed.

3. The distribution for males has a higher degree of skewness than that for females.

Question 3
While collecting preliminary data for a future study, investigators determined the length of
hospital stay for 9 patients who received a new drug following surgery. The values in this sample
were 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 4, 5 and 18.

Which of the following is the best measure of central tendency for this sample of data? And then
calculate it.

(a) The mean. (b) The median. (c) The mode.

(d) Any one of the above measures is suitable.

The value of the best measure of central tendency =

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Question 4
An investment you made 5 years ago has realized the following rates of return.
Year 1 2 3 4 5
Rate of Return - .15 - .20 .15 -.08 .50

a) Compute the mean and median of the rates of return.

b) Compute the geometric mean.

c) Which one of the three statistics computed in parts (a) and (b) best describes the return
over the 5-year period? Explain.