TUTORIAL 3 – Correlation and Regression

TUTORIAL 3

QUESTION 1
A school headmaster plans to increase the tuition classes’ period hours in order to decrease the
number of students who fail in their examination. He randomly collected information from other
schools in town for his plan. The table below shows the data gathered.
School Tuition class Number of
period (hours) students who fail
A 12 8
B 15 4
C 7 13
D 11 8
E 1 18
F 8 12
G 4 15
H 6 14
I 9 12
J 3 16

a) State the independent and dependent variable.

(2 marks)
b) Draw a scatter diagram. Comment on the relationship between the variables.
(4 marks)
c) Calculate the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient and comment on the
value obtained.
(5 marks)
d) Determine the regression equation line using the least square method.
(4 marks)
e) Interpret the value of a and b of regression line obtain.
(2 marks)
f) Calculate the value of coefficient of determination and interpret its value.
(2 marks)
g) Estimate the number of students who fail if there were 20 hours tuition class period.
(2 marks)

QUESTION 2
 TUTORIAL 3 – Correlation and Regression

A research was conducted to investigate the relationship between years of working and the
amount of affordable deposit (RM ‘000) for a new house. The table below showed the data
collected from 10 buyers

Year of Amount of deposit (RM ‘000)

working
3 15
5 18.5
14 42
2 10
4 28
6 30.4
15 45
12 40.8
7 35
9 36

a) Find the product moment correlation coefficient and give your comment.
(5 marks)
b) Calculate the coefficient of determination and interpret its meaning.
(2 marks)
c) Obtain the regression equation by using least squares method.
(4 marks)
d) Interpret the value obtained in c).
(1 mark)
e) Estimate the amount of affordable deposit for a new house if a person has worked for
7.5 years
(2 marks)