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Enabling Assessment 5: Central Tendency, Linear regression and correlation

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Question 1
When collecting data, we try to avoid taking advantage of easy to access groups simply because they are there.

Response: True

Question 2
Health insurance administrative costs are a concern for many companies that supply the insurance for their employees. The information
below is information gathered recently. Let x be the average number of employees in a group health insurance plan and y be the average
administrative cost as a percentage of claims. Find the sample correlation coefficient. Round your answer to three decimal places.

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x 3 11 24 28 75

y 45 42 20 19 10

Response: –0.855

Question 3
Statistical Abstracts, (117th ed.), reports average travel time to work for commuters in the New England states to be (to the
nearest minute):
17 21 18 26 17 23
What is the median of these commuting times? Round your answer to one decimal place, if necessary.

Response: 19.5

Question 4
Find the mean of the set of sample data.
96, 54, 66, 78, 62, 80, 54

Response: 70

Question 5
So far in art class, a student’s quiz scores are 89%, 90%, 82%, and 77%. What score does the student need on the fifth quiz
to have a mean quiz score of 87%? All the quizzes have equal weights. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

Response: 97%

Question 6
Determine the correlation based on the points of the scatter graph.

Response: No correlation

Question 7
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In data collection, we do not leave anything with personal information in a place that can easily be accessed by people who
do not need to see the data

Response: True

Question 8
Find the least squares regression equation for the data in the table below:

x 14 37 43 25 25 25 15 37 33 33 27 26 42 21 48

y 44 49 52 44 44 48 42 49 46 48 46 48 51 42 53

Round your coefficients to four decimal places.

Response:

Question 9
In data collection, it is a normal practice to let your personal preconceptions or opinions interfere with the data collection
process.

Response: False

Question 10
Find the average price per item for an order that consists of the following catalog items. Round your answer to two decimal places.

Price Per Item Number of items

$12 4

$16 2

$19 8

$22 6

Response: $18.20

Question 11
Which of the scatter diagrams below suggests a strong negative relationship between the x and y variables?

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Response:

Question 12
The following table shows the median age of automobiles and trucks on the road for a certain country. Use linear regression to find the
linear equation that is the best fit for the data, with x equal to the number of years past 1980. Round your coefficients to two decimal
places, if necessary.

Year Median Age

1980 4.1

1985 5.5

1990 6.2

1995 7.3

Response:

Question 13
The following table gives the actual or projected population in millions for a certain city for selected years from 2000 to 2050. Use
linear regression to find the linear equation that is the best fit for the data, with x equal to the number of years past 2000. Round your
coefficients to three decimal places.

Years Population(billions)

2000 1.1

2010 1.9

2020 2.4

2030 2.7

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2040 3.1

2050 3.8

Response:

Question 14
Find the mean, the median, and all the modes for the pay rates (in dollars) in the given frequency distribution. Round your answers to
two decimal places.

Hourly pay rates

Frequency
for employees

9.00 4

12.50 29

15.50 7

20.00 4

Response:

Mean: $14.25

Median: $14.00

Mode: $15.50

Question 15
Describe which measure of central tendency was probably used in each situation.

Response: Finding the half of the football player's height. => Median

Response: Most visited fast food chain in SM Dasmarinas => Mode

Response: Average electricity power consumption of a household => Mean

Response: Best selling beverage at the canteen => Mode

Response: Average number of high school students taking entrance exam in DLSU-D => Mean

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