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Course: Business Statistics
1. The sample data from a
research survey conducted in various cities on the amount of time 13-15
year-old children spent with mobiles are as follows:
City
|
Time with mobiles
(hours per week)
|
Hyderabad
|
46
|
Mumbai
|
50
|
Pune
|
46
|
Bangalore
|
54
|
Bhubneshwar
|
42
|
Indore
|
30
|
Bhopal
|
42
|
New
Delhi
|
50
|
Chandigarh
|
46
|
For the above sample,
determine the following measures:
i.
The
mean
ii.
The
standard deviation
iii.
The
mode
iv.
The
75th percentile
Based on your calculations
comment on the time spent on mobile. (10 Marks)
Solution:
a. The mean
Mean
can be calculated by sum of all number / total numbers.
2. ‘Mumbai Ice Cream an ice
cream store gives relationship between ice cream sold and temperature. The
store has taken a sample of a week’s data. Below you are given the results of
the sample.
Day
|
Cones Sold
|
Temperature
|
1
|
350
|
110
|
2
|
200
|
100
|
3
|
210
|
90
|
4
|
100
|
80
|
5
|
80
|
70
|
6
|
70
|
60
|
7
|
50
|
50
|
i. Which variable is the
dependent variable?
Solution: Here
the dependent variable is Ice Cream cone Sold as its depend on the temperature.
When temperature Increase number of Ice cream cones sold increases
3. According to one of the
recent study conducted by an academic researcher on international placement of
students from leading institutes in India there is a high variation in the
salary offered by institutes. The following details have been gathered from the
placement institute of the colleges. The researcher wants to understand the
trends with regard to international placement based on the data he has
gathered.
Amount (in USD in lakhs
per annum )
|
Age
|
Marital Status
|
Type of institute
|
Gender
|
2
|
35
|
Single
|
University
|
Male
|
5
|
24
|
Married
|
PGDM
|
Male
|
3.5
|
29
|
Married
|
University
|
Female
|
5
|
26
|
Single
|
University
|
Male
|
4
|
26
|
Married
|
PGDM
|
Female
|
8
|
25
|
Single
|
PGDM
|
Female
|
15
|
34
|
Married
|
PGDM
|
Male
|
3
|
26
|
Single
|
PGDM
|
Male
|
7
|
23
|
Single
|
PGDM
|
Male
|
a. Using descriptive
statistics explore salary, and identify factors that appear to influence the
amount of the salary received. (5 Marks)
Solution: Descriptive
statistics are ways of summarizing large sets of quantitative (numerical)
information. If we have a large number of measurements, the best thing we
can do is to make a graph with all the possible scores along the bottom (x
axis), and
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