BM1918

QUIZ ON DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

NAME: GIRYL JEAN S. FERNANDEZ SECTION: BSBA- DATE:

301A 11/12/
21

SCORE:

Quiz (3 items x 5 points)

1. A firm of architects is attempting to get a feel for the sizes of houses in Colton's suburb in the city of Baycoast
because it has been commissioned to design a house in Colton. Using their contacts at Baycoast City Real Estate
Agents, the architects are provided with information on a sample of 13 houses. Compute the mode, median, and
mean for the number of bedrooms. Calculate the mean, median, and modal number of bathrooms and the
number of all rooms. Interpret the results.

House no. Suburb Bedrooms Bathrooms All rooms

110 Colton 2 1 5
112 Colton 2 1.5 5
108 Colton 2 1 5
117 Colton 2 1.5 6
100 Colton 2 1 5
89 Colton 2 2 6
96 Colton 3 1.5 6
94 Colton 3 1 7
93 Colton 3 1.5 6
113 Colton 3 1.5 6
102 Colton 3 1.5 7
114 Colton 4 2 8
115 Colton 5 2 9

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 Solution:
Bedroom
Mean:
∑ 36
M= x = 13 = 2.77
N
Median:
n+1 13+ 1 = 7th House
14
Md = = =
2 2 2
Md= 3
Mode= 2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,3,4,5
Modal number of bedroom is 2.

Bathrooms All rooms

Mean: Mean:
∑x
∑ 19 = 1.46 or 1.5 M= =
M= x = 13
N N
81
= 6.23 or 6
13

Median: Median:
n+1 n+1
13+ 1 = 7 House
th
Md = =
Md = 14
= =
2 2 2 2
13+ 1 = 7 House
th
14 =
2 2
Md = 1.5 Md = 6

Mode: Mode:
Bathroom: 1,1,1,1,1.5,1.5,1.5,1.5,1.5,1.5,1.5,2,2,2 All rooms: 5,5,5,5,6,6,6,6,6,7,7,8,9
Modal number of bathrooms is 1.5 Modal number of all rooms is 6.
Based on the data given, the average bedroom is 2.77, the average bathroom is 1.46, and the average for all
rooms is 6.23. To get the average, get the sum of the specified data divided by the total number of houses.
The median bedroom is 3, the median bathroom is 1.5, and the median all rooms is 6. To find the median, add the
house number divided by 2 to 1 and the 7th place is the median.
The mode for bedrooms is 2, the mode for bathrooms is 1.5, and all rooms are 6. To get the mode, find the most
frequent number in the data.

1. Determine the 15th percentile of the waiting times of the sample of café customers presented in the table below.
Interpret the results.

7 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 12 14 14 15

Solution:

N= 164

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 p
ἰ= 100 (n)

15
ἰ= 100 (164)

ἰ= 0.15 (164)
ἰ = 24.6

Since ἰ= 24.6 is not a whole number, follow step 3(b), the 15th percentile is sum of ἰ + 1. P15 = ἰ + 1
P15 = 25 + 1
P15 = 26

Therefore, the 15th percentile of the waiting time for the cafe customer example shown in the table is 26.

2. An investor in the telecommunications industry has been provided with some questionable information in a prospectus
regarding market potential in New Zealand, particularly about potentially over-optimistic statements made about the
average monthly download usage for broadband connections. The investor obtains data from recent reports on usage
from a variety of sources. The average monthly data usage by a household with broadband connections listed in a
random sample of 12 such reports is as stated as follows, sorted by usage. Interpret the results.

Average monthly
data usage (GB) 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 160 170 180 190 190

Determine the first, second, and third quartiles for these data.

Solution:
The value of Q1 is found at the 25th percentile P25 by: For
25
n = 12, ἰ = ( 12)=3
100
P25 120+130
= = 125 GB
2
The value of Q1 is P25 = 125 GB. Notice that one-quarter of the average of data usage is 125 GB. The remaining
three-quarter (or 75%) of the average data usage of 125 GB or more.
P50 150+160
= Q2 = median = = 155 GB
2

The value of Q2 is equal to the Median. Because the array contains an even number of terms, the median is the
average of the (2) middle terms.
The value of Q3 is determined by P75 as follows:
75
ἰ= (12)=9
100
P75 is the average monthly data usage of the 9th and 10th number

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 P75 =
170+180 = 175 GB
2
The value of Q3 is P75 = 175 GB. Note that the data usage of the three-quarter, or 12, of the household are less than
175 GB, and the data usage of 3 of the household are greater than 175 GB.

Rubric for grading:

CRITERIA POINTS
Complete solution with correct answer 5
Last two major steps of the solution are incorrect 4
Half of the solution is correct 3
First two major steps of the solution are correct 2
First major step of the solution is correct 1
REFERENCES
Black, K. (2016). Business Statistics: For Contemporary Decision Making (9th ed.). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons,
Inc.

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