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TABLE 12-15

Two new different models of compact SUVs have just arrived at the market. You are

interested in comparing the gas mileage performance of both models to see if they are

the same. A partial computer output for twelve compact SUVs of model 1 and thirteen

of model 2 is given below:

You are told that the gas mileage population distributions for both models are not

normally distributed.

Referring to Table 12-15, what is the mean of the Wilcoxon rank sum test statistic T1?

TABLE 19-6

A student wanted to find out the optimal strategy to study for a Business Statistics

exam. He constructed the following payoff table based on the mean amount of time he

needed to study every week for the course and the degree of difficulty of the exam.

From the information that he gathered from students who had taken the course, he

concluded that there was a 40% probability that the exam would be easy.

Referring to Table 19-6, what is the coefficient of variation of spending 8 hours per

week on average studying for the exam?

TABLE 8-10

A sales and marketing management magazine conducted a survey on salespeople

cheating on their expense reports and other unethical conduct. In the survey on 200

managers, 58% of the managers have caught salespeople cheating on an expense report,

50% have caught salespeople working a second job on company time, 22% have caught

salespeople listing a ‘strip bar” as a restaurant on an expense report, and 19% have

caught salespeople giving a kickback to a customer.

Referring to Table 8-10, the sampling error of a 95% confidence interval estimate of the

population proportion of managers who have caught salespeople listing a ‘strip bar” as a

restaurant on an expense report is ________.

TABLE 16-13

Given below is the monthly time-series data for U.S. retail sales of building materials

over a specific year.

The results of the linear trend, quadratic trend, exponential trend, first-order

autoregressive, second-order autoregressive and third-order autoregressive model are

presented below in which the coded month for the 1st month is 0:

Linear trend model:

Quadratic trend model:

Exponential trend model:

First-order autoregressive:

Second-order autoregressive:

Third-order autoregressive:

Below is the residual plot of the various models:

Referring to Table 16-13, what is the value of the t test statistic for testing the

appropriateness of the second-order autoregressive model?

TABLE 6-7

A company has 125 personal computers. The probability that any one of them will

require repair on a given day is 0.15.

Referring to Table 6-7 and assuming that the number of computers that requires repair

on a given day follows a binomial distribution, compute the probability that there will

be more than 25 but less than 30 computers that require repair on a given day using a

normal approximation.

TABLE 9-8

One of the biggest issues facing e-retailers is the ability to turn browsers into buyers.

This is measured by the conversion rate, the percentage of browsers who buy something

in their visit to a site. The conversion rate for a company’s website was 10.1%. The

website at the company was redesigned in an attempt to increase its conversion rates. A

sample of 200 browsers at the redesigned site was selected. Suppose that 24 browsers

made a purchase. The company officials would like to know if there is evidence of an

increase in conversion rate at the 5% level of significance.

Referring to Table 9-8, state the alternative hypothesis for this study.

TABLE 6-2

John has two jobs. For daytime work at a jewelry store he is paid $15,000 per month,

plus a commission. His monthly commission is normally distributed with a mean of

$10,000 and a standard deviation of $2,000. At night he works occasionally as a waiter,

for which his monthly income is normally distributed with a mean of $1,000 and a

standard deviation of $300. John’s income levels from these two sources are

independent of each other.

Referring to Table 6-2, for a given month, what is the probability that John’s

commission from the jewelry store is less than $13,000?

Referring to Table 14-17, what is the standard error of estimate?

TABLE 14-17

Given below are results from the regression analysis where the

dependent variable is the number of weeks a worker is unemployed

due to a layo$ (Unemploy) and the independent variables are the age

of the worker (Age) and a dummy variable for management position

(Manager: 1 = yes, 0 = no).

The results of the regression analysis are given below: