MAT 152: Mathematics in the Modern

QUIZ NUMBER 2

Name: _____________________________ Section: _______________

Schedule: __________________________ Class number: _______________
Date: _____________

The quiz consists of questions carefully designed to help you self-assess your
comprehension/understanding of the information presented on the topics covered in the
module. You are only given 1hour to finish the quiz.

PART I : Calculate the correlation coefficient between the two variables x and y shown
below:

x 1 2 3 4 5 6
y 2 4 7 9 12 14

Part II: Determine the regression line. Refer to the following data below regarding the
grades in English and Mathematics.

Student English Math Grade

Grade
A 85 75
B 82 76
C 79 90
D 85 78
E 85 92
F 90 90
G 85 95
H 84 85
I 74 82
J 81 82

PART III: A teacher desires to know whether the typing speed of a Comsci student (in
words per minute) is related to the time (in hours). Given the speed of a students (x)
and the corresponding time it will take for him to learn the word processing program,
predict the time it will take the average students who has a typing speed of 72 words
per minute to learn the word processing program.

Speed (X) 45 68 69 45 58 55
TIME (Y) 85 67 56 78 68 89

a. What is the value of a? ____________________________________

b. What is the value of b? ____________________________________

c. What is the regression equation? ____________________________