Benson Liester A.

Flores Course: DBA

1. A Researcher studying consumer buying habits questions every week twentieth person entering
Pubic Supermarket. He asks, “How many times per week do you grocery shopping? Suppose the
researcher questions 427 shoppers during the survey?
i. Give an example relating to this survey of the kind of question which tools of descriptive
statistics can be used to answer.
ii. Give an example relating to this survey of the kind of question which tools of inferential
statistics can be used to answer.
Answer

i. What is the average number of times people in this sample go grocery shopping per week?
ii. What is the average number of times per week people who shop at Public Supermarket go
grocery shopping?

2. A sample is chosen by numbering all red books in the library and then choosing the ones that
corresponds to random digits in a table.
Is the sample independent?
Is it a simple random sample?
Of what population?

Answer:
Population: Red books in the library.

Sample: Simple random, because every one of the distinct samples has an equal chance of being
drawn, where M = sample size, N = number of red books.

Every sample of size M is independent of any other sample of size M.

3. Of a sample of 63 deaths of people aged 12 to 21 in a large metropolitan area, 52 or 83% were

caused by accidents. The stated conclusion is that “teenagers” are accident prone in the sense that
they are more likely to die of accidents than older people of infants. Do you agree or disagree
with the stated conclusion?
Support your answer.

Answer:
Teenagers may, in fact, be accident prone, but the data don't support this conclusion. If a
teenager dies he is likely to die of an accident, because he is less susceptible to disease and "natural"
cause to which older people and infants are more susceptible.

The sample is not of sufficient size to conclude that teenagers as a group are accident
prone. The sample may be biased because it is a large metropolitan area, thus excluding suburban
and rural teenagers. It may be that there are more accidents in a metropolitan area to everyone,
not just teenagers, simply because it is a metropolitan area.

The 83% figure seems high, but no corresponding accident rates are given for infants and
older people.