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Solutions - December 2014

This document contains sample questions from an exam on statistics. It includes the following: 1) Questions about sampling methods, variables, and descriptive vs inferential statistics. 2) Questions calculating measures like standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and skewness from data. 3) Questions performing hypothesis tests on single means and differences between means, including interpreting p-values and confidence intervals. 4) Questions calculating proportions, performing a chi-square test, and interpreting results. 5) Questions identifying the relationship between variables from scatter plot data, calculating the correlation coefficient and coefficient of determination, and building a linear regression model to make a prediction.

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Solutions - December 2014

This document contains sample questions from an exam on statistics. It includes the following: 1) Questions about sampling methods, variables, and descriptive vs inferential statistics. 2) Questions calculating measures like standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and skewness from data. 3) Questions performing hypothesis tests on single means and differences between means, including interpreting p-values and confidence intervals. 4) Questions calculating proportions, performing a chi-square test, and interpreting results. 5) Questions identifying the relationship between variables from scatter plot data, calculating the correlation coefficient and coefficient of determination, and building a linear regression model to make a prediction.

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DECEMBER 2014

QUESTION 1

a)i) Population – 350 students from Aleem College


Sample – 10 students from each faculty of Aleem College

a)ii) Sampling method – Stratified sampling

a)iii) Qualitative variable – Gender / Type of books


Quantitative variable – Age / Monthly expenditure on books

b)i) Descriptive

b)ii) Inferential

b)iii) Descriptive

c)i) P = 345/10 = 34.5


Q = 36
R = 34 – 8 = 26
S = 25
T = 34

c)ii) Most of the housewives from town area spend 36 hours in a week to watch television.

c)iii) Skewness (Rural) = (20.5-20) / 9.301 = 0.0537. This means that the number of hours spent to
watch television is skewed to the right (or almost symmetric) OR

skewness (Rural) = 3(20.5-20) / 9.301 = 0.161. This means that the number of hours spent to
watch television is skewed to the right (or almost symmetric)

c)iv) CV (Town) = (6.133 / 34.5) * 100 = 17.78%


CV (Rural) = (9.301 / 20.5) * 100 = 45.37%

Town housewives are more consistent in the number of hours spent to watch television since its
CV is smaller.

QUESTION 2

Out of syllabus..!
QUESTION 3
s 17.6038
a)i) P = Standard error of mean =   3.8415
n 21

Q + 420 = lower limit of the CI for single mean. Therefore,


s
Q  420  x  t  ,n1
2 n
 407.6143 - t 0.01,19 (3.8415 )
 407.6143 - 2.539 3.8415 
 397.8607
 Q  - 22.1393

a)ii) H0: µ = 420


H1: µ ≠ 420
P-value = 0.004
Reject H0 since p-value < α (0.01)
There is enough evidence that the average performance is significantly different from 420.

b)i) Test statistic = mean diff / std. error mean = (129.42-129.70) / 1.23 = -0.23

b)ii) H0: µd = 0
H1: µd > 0

b)iii) P-value = 0.822 / 2 = 0.411


Do not reject H0 since p-value > α (0.05)
There is no enough evidence to conclude that the new arrow release is an improvement over
the old arrow.

b)iv) 95% CI for the mean difference = (-2.76, 2.20)

b)v) Based on the CI in iv), there is no significant difference in the mean score between old and new
arrow since 0 is in the interval. In other words, there is no improvement in the score when the
new arrow was used. Therefore, this support the result produced in iii).

QUESTION 4

a)i) A = 281 – 134 = 147


B = 285 – 81.1 – 136.4 = 67.5 OR B = (139 * 285) / 587 = 67.5
C = (r-1)(c-1) = (3-1)(2-1) = 2

a)ii) H0: Level of support does not vary according to age (not related)
H1: Level of support varies according to age (related)

a)iii) P-value = 0.293


Do not reject H0 since p-value > α (0.05)
Level of support does not vary according to age

b) Out of syllabus..!
QUESTION 5

a) There is a positive linear relationship between earnings and sales of the company.

b) Independent variable – Sales


Dependent variable – earnings

c) SSXY = 1508.596
SSXX = 10478.372
SSYY = 245.7255

SS XY 1508 .596
r   0.940
SS XXSS YY (10478 .372)(245.7255 )

There is a strong positive linear relationship between earnings and sales of the company.

d) r2 = 0.884. Therefore, 88.4% of the total variation in earnings is explained by sales.

e) Coefficient of determination.

f) A = y-intercept

A
 y  b  x  129.3  0.144 977.6   0.574
n n 20  20 

g) y = -0.574 + 0.144x
Slope = 0.144 means when sales increase by RM1000 (RM1 x 1000), earnings will increase by
RM144 (0.144 x 1000).

h) y = -0.574 + 0.144(56) = 7.49

Therefore, when sales is RM56000, earnings will be RM7490.

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