Chapter 1 Managerial Accounting

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762
b. Categorical as it was non-numerical and there were limited number of labels/categories to
choose from.
c. Percentages would be more suitable as there are no numbers to calculate averages.
d. 0.67 x 762 = 510.54  510 or 511 respondents said yes to this poll.

a. Employed individuals ages 25 – 29 in the United States


b. Do you have a Bachelor Degree (or higher)?
c. The responses provided are categorical data, as the answer is chosen between: yes/nox
a. Categorical
b. Percentages as you can’t calculate averages with categorical responses.
c. 44/(44+130+165+741) = 0.04  4% strongly agrees with allowing drivers of motor vehicles to
talk on a hand held cell phone while driving
d. The results indicate general support against allowing drivers of motor vehicles to talk on a hand-
held cell phone while driving as 165 responded somewhat disagree and 741 responded strongly
disagree (totalling up to 84% of the total respondants).

a. The population of women whose mother took the DES during pregnancy and the population of
women whose mother did not take the DES drug during pregnancy.
b. Survey
c. 63/3980 = x/1000  x = 63*1000/3980 = 15.8  For every 1000 women whose mother took
DES during pregnancy, 15.8 developed tissue abnormalities.
d. As stated in the question, the DES was ‘twice as likely to develop abnormalities’, hence, we can
deduct that: For every 1000 women whose mother did not take DES during pregnancy, 7.9
developed tissue abnormalities.
e. As disease studies are usually rare, hence a very small sample of the population is affected by it.
A large sample size is needed to be able to identify a reasonable number of cases that had the
disease.

a. Five: Overall score, Recommended, Owner’s satisfaction, Overall kilometers per liter, and
Acceleration
b. Categorical: Recommended, Owner Satisfaction
Quantitative: Overall Score, Overall kilometers per liter, and Acceleration
c. 7/15 = 46.67% (~47%)
d. 11.01km
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