UMBC: Spring2024:

Stat351 worksheet 2

1. Identify the shape of the following histograms.

2. The numbers of weekly sales calls by a sample of 30 telemarketers are listed here.
14 12 9 17 8 3 10 20 19 15 8 21 3 9 18 17 15 17 7 10 6 4 25 5 16 19 5 14 10 8.
• Draw a histogram of these data and describe it.
• calculate the average weekly sales.
• Compute the median weekly sales.

3. The professors at Wilfrid Laurier University are required to submit their final exams to the

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 registrar’s office 10 days before the end of the semester. The exam coordinator sampled 20
professors and recorded the number of days before the final exam that each submitted his or
her exam. The results are 14 8 3 2 6 4 9 13 10 12 7 4 9 13 15 8 11 12 4 0
(a) Compute the mean, median, and mode.
(b) Briefly describe what each statistic tells you.
(c) Compute the 10% trimmed mean and compare it with the actual mean.
(d) Calculate 5% trimmed mean and compare it with the result in part c.
4. The midterm test for a statistics course has a time limit of 1 hour. However, like most statistics
exams this one was quite easy. To assess how easy, the professor recorded the amount of time
taken by a sample of nine students to hand in their test papers. The times (rounded to the
nearest minute) are 33 29 45 60 42 19 52 38 36

(a) Compute the mean, median, and mode.

(b) What have you learned from the three statistics calculated in part (a)?