EXERCISE 2

INTRODUCTION TO MINITAB

EXERCISE 2.1
SOLVING DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

A consumer testing service obtains the following mileage per gallon during 15 test runs
performed with each of three compact cars:

Ca 27. 30. 31. 29. 28. 28. 30.

30.4 31.4 31.2 28.6 28.5 31.3 31.3 27.9
rX 9 6 7 1 7 7 6
Ca 31. 31. 31. 29. 32. 27. 30.
28.7 28.7 31.4 28.6 35 33.2 28.9 28.2
rY 2 3 3 1 1 6 6
Ca 28. 28. 29. 32. 33. 34. 32.
29.1 32.1 31.3 28.7 28.5 30.6 33 36
rZ 6 5 7 2 1 2 1

a. Compute for the mean, range, standard deviation using Minitab.

RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION

MEAN RANGE STD. DEVIATION

CAR X
CAR Y
CAR Z

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QUESTION

1. Which car has a greater variability in performance?

2. How does MINITAB help in solving the problem?

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CONCLUSION

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 EXERCISE 2.2
SOLVING DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

XYZ restaurant had the following numbers of orders for chicken, pork and steak. Calculate the
mean, range and standard deviation.

Pork 45 47 28 41 48 46 36 23 53 50 41 28 47 65 37
Steak 41 37 55 43 30 65 37 51 33 32 41 53 37 36 40
Chicke
25 35 41 25 54 36 40 30 64 44 46 35 44 36 23
n

RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION

MEAN RANGE STD. DEVIATION

PORK
STEAK
CHICKEN

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QUESTION

1. Which item the number of orders is relatively more variable?

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2. Suppose the given samples are unequal for the three variables, is it still possible to solve the
problem using MINITAB? Explain.

CONCLUSION

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 EXERCISE 2.3
REGRESSION AND CORRELATION

The following are the numbers of mistakes which 12 QC inspectors made during the first
hour after coming to work and also during the last hour going home:

First
hour 2 1 5 6 3 1 2 5 0 3 2 4
(x)
Last
hour 4 0 3 5 4 4 3 2 3 2 2 5
(y)

a. Solve for the linear regression equation for the variables first hour and last hour results using
MINITAB.
b. Determine the value of r.
c. Draw the regression chart.
d. Save the data file and the graph.

RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION

QUESTION

1. What is the linear equation?

2. What is the value of r?

3. Describe the chart.

CONCLUSION

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 EXERCISE 2.4
SOLVING LINEAR REGRESSION

The following table shows how many weeks 15 persons worked at an automobile inspection
station and the number of cars each one inspected between 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on a given day:

Number of Number of
weeks employed cars inspected
(x) (y)
3 14
8 22
10 24
2 15
13 22
12 22
1 15
5 12
7 22
9 21
12 13
10 14
13 23
8 13
7 21

a. Solve for the linear regression equation for the variables x and y using MINITAB.
b. Determine the value of r.
c. Draw the regression chart.
d. Save the data file and the graph.

RESULTS AND INTERPRETATION

QUESTION

1. What is the linear equation?

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 2. What is the value of r?

3. Describe the chart.

CONCLUSION

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