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Assessment 4
Assessment 4
1. A research objective is presented. For each, identify the (a) population and
(b) sample in the study.
a) A polling organization contacts 2141 male university graduates with white-collar
jobs and asks whether or not they had received a raise at work during the 4
months.
a. Male university graduates from white-collar jobs
b. 2,141 male university graduates with white-collar jobs
c) Every year the PSA releases the Current Population Report based on a survey of
50,000 households. The goal of this report is to learn the demographic
characteristics, such as income, of all households within the Philippines.
a. All household within the Philippines
b. 50,000 surveyed households within the Philippines
5. You recorded the time in seconds it took for 8 participants to solve a puzzle. The times
were: 15.2, 18.8, 19.3, 19.7, 20.2, 21.8, 22.1, and 29.4.
a) Calculate the mean and the median time it took for 8 participants to solve a puzzle.
CALCULATING MEAN:
Mean= (15.2+18.8+19.3+19.7+20.2+21.8+22.1+29.4)/8
=166.5/8
=20.8125
Mean = 20.8
CALCULATING MEDIAN:
Median=(19.7+20.2)/2
Median=39.9/2
Median=19.95
Median = 20
b) Calculate the range and standard deviation of the time it took for the 8 participants to solve
the puzzle.
SOLVING THE RANGE:
Range: 29.4 - 15.2
Range = 14.2
Standard deviation= 4.07
Sample standard deviation= 3.81
6. Makeup three data sets with 5 numbers each that have:
a) The same mean but different standard deviations.
1
SET SET
2
3
SET
7
-1
6
5
6
-9
6
3
5
1
7
7
1
5
8
Mean 4
4
4
SD
2.83
3.16
7.05