Assignment

Submission deadline: 27 June 2024

Problem 1: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants established the single-season Major
League Baseball home run record by hitting 50 home runs during the 2001 season. Listed below
is the sorted distance of each of the 50 home runs. [30]

320 320 347 350 360 360 360 361 365 370 370 375 375 375 375 380 380 380 380 380
380 390 390 391 394 396 400 400 400 400 405 410 410 410 410 410 410 410 410 410
410 410 411 415 415 416 417 417 420 420

a. Make a stem and leaf plot of the data and comment.

b. How many classes would you recommend?
c. What class interval would you suggest?
d. What lower limit would you recommend for the first class?
e. For these data, create a frequency distribution.
f. Construct cumulative frequency and relative frequency distributions for the data
g. How many home runs travelled a distance of 360 up to 390 feet?
h. What percentage of the home runs travelled a distance of 360 up to 390 feet?
i. What percentage of the home runs travelled a distance of 390 feet or more?
j. Make a histogram of the data set.
k. Portray the data as a frequency polygon.

Problem 2: Alexandra Damonte will be building a new resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
She must decide how to design the resort based on the type of activities that the resort will offer
to its customers. A recent poll of 300 potential customers showed the following results about
customers’ preferences for planned resort activities: [10]

Like planned activities 63

Do not like planned activities 135
Not sure 78
No answer 24

a) Draw a bar chart to portray the survey results.

b) Draw a pie chart for the survey results.
c) If you are preparing to present the results to Ms. Damonte as part of a report, which
graph would you prefer to show? Why?

Md. Moyazzem Hossain, Prof., Dept. of Statistics and Data Science, JU

Problem 3: A large Internet retailer is studying the lead time (elapsed time between when an
order is placed and when it is filled) for a sample of recent orders. The lead times are reported
in days. [10]

Lead Time (days) Frequency

0 up to 5 6
5 up to 10 7
10 up to 15 12
15 up to 20 7
20 up to 25 8

a) How many orders were studied?

b) Compute the mean, median, and mode of the lead time.

Problem 4: The percent increase in sales for the last 4 years at Combs Cosmetics were 4.91,
5.75, 8.12, and 21.60. [5]
(a) Find the geometric mean percent increase.
(b) Find the arithmetic mean percent increase.
(c) Is the arithmetic mean equal to or greater than the geometric mean?

Problem 5: Estimate the mean, the standard deviation and the coefficient of variation of the
following frequency distribution showing the ages of the first 60 people in line on Black Friday
at a retail store. [10]

Class Frequency
20 up to 30 7
30 up to 40 12
40 up to 50 21
50 up to 60 18
60 up to 70 12

Problem 6: Ten young adults living in California rated the taste of a newly developed sushi
pizza topped with tuna, rice, and kelp on a scale of 1 to 50, with 1 indicating they did not like
the taste and 50 that they did. The ratings were:
34 39 40 46 33 31 34 14 15 45

In a parallel study, 10 young adults in Iowa rated the taste of the same pizza. The ratings were:
28 25 35 16 25 29 24 26 17 20
As a market researcher, compare the potential for sushi pizza in the two markets. [5]

Md. Moyazzem Hossain, Prof., Dept. of Statistics and Data Science, JU

Problem 7: A retail company wants to analyze the impact of advertising expenditure on their
sales revenue to make informed budgeting decisions. They have collected the following data
for the past 12 months: [30]

Months 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Advertising 5 7 8 10 12 15 17 18 20 22 25 28
Expenditure (in
$1000s)
Sales Revenue 20 22 25 28 32 35 38 40 42 45 48 52
(in $1000s)

a) Calculate the correlation coefficient between advertising expenditure and sales revenue.
Interpret the correlation coefficient.
b) Conduct a linear regression analysis to determine the relationship between advertising
expenditure (independent variable) and sales revenue (dependent variable). Provide the
regression equation.
c) Interpret the slope and intercept of the regression equation.
d) Predict the expected sales revenue if the company plans to increase the advertising
expenditure to $30,000.

Md. Moyazzem Hossain, Prof., Dept. of Statistics and Data Science, JU