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MATH 533 Week 1 Homework MATH 533 Week 1
Quiz MATH 533 Week 2 DQ 1 Case Let's Make a
Deal MATH 533 Week 2 Homework (2 Sets)
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MATH 533 Final Exam Set 1 (New) FOR MORE
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www.math533rank.com     1. (TCO D)
PuttingPeople2Work has a growing business placing
out-of-work MBAs. They claim they can place a
client in a job in their field in less than 36
weeks. You are given the following data from a
sample. Sample size 100
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www.math533rank.com     1. (TCO A) Seventeen
salespeople reported the following number of
sales calls completed last month. 72 93
82 81 82 97
102 107 119 86 88 91
83 93 73 100
102
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1. Complete the table to the right. 2.
In one university, language incorporated a
10-week extensive reading program to improve
students Japanese reading comprehension. The
professors collected 267 books originally written
for Japanese children and required their students
to read at least 40 of them as part of the grade
in the course. The books were categorized into
reading levels (color-coded for easy selection)
according to length and complexity. Complete
parts a through c.
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1. Graph the relative frequency histogram
for the 300 measurements summarized in the
relative frequency table to the right. 2.
Would you expect the data sets that follow to
possess relative frequency distributions that are
symmetric, skewed to the right, or skewed to the
left? Explain. Complete parts a through c below.
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MATH 533 Week 2 DQ 1 Case Let's Make a Deal
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www.math533rank.com     A number of years ago,
there was a popular television game show called
Let's Make a Deal. The host, Monty Hall, would
randomly select contestants from the audience
and, as the title suggests, he would make deals
for prizes. Contestants would be given relatively
modest prizes and then would be offered the
opportunity to risk that prize to win better ones.
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MATH 533 Week 2 Homework (2 Sets) (New) FOR
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www.math533rank.com     1. The table to the
right gives a breakdown of 2,149 civil cases that
were appealed. The outcome of the appeal, as well
as the type of trial (judge or jury), was
determined for each case. Suppose one of the
cases is selected at random and the outcome of
the appeal and type of trial are observed.
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1. A countrys government has devoted
considerable funding to missile defense research
over the past 20 years. The latest development is
the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS), which
uses satellite imagery to detect and track
missiles. The probability that an intruding
object (e.g., a missile) will be detected on a
flight track by SBIRS is 0.6. Consider a sample
of 10 simulated tracks, each with an intruding
object. Let x equal the number of these tracks
where SBIRS detects the object.
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MATH 533 Week 3 DQ 1 Ethics in Statistics
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Why is it important to study ethics in
statistics? Have you seen statistics misused?
Without naming specific companies or people, can
you provide examples? Please find (on the
Internet or from the Keller library) and post an
article regarding ethics and statistics. Please
attach the article, or provide its link in your
post, together with a brief summary of the
article in your own words. Be sure to use
quotation marks around any words taken directly
from the article (not to
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1. The mean gas mileage for a hybrid car is
56 miles per gallon. Suppose that the gasoline
mileage is approximately normally distributed
with a standard deviation of 3.3 miles per
gallon. 2. The ages of a group of 50 women
are approximately normally distributed with a
mean of 49 years and a standard deviation of 5
years. One woman is randomly selected from the
group, and her age is observed.
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MATH 533 Week 3 Quiz (2 Sets) (New) FOR MORE
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www.math533rank.com     1. The average
salary for a certain profession is 97,000.
Assume that the standard deviation of such
salaries is 33,500. Consider a random sample of
54 people in this profession and let x represent
the mean salary for the sample.
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MATH 533 Week 4 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
Medicare Fraud Investigations (New) FOR MORE
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www.math533rank.com     Read the selection in
your textbook pertaining to the Case Statistics
in Action Medicare Fraud Investigations load
the data set for the case, MCFRAUD, into Minitab
answer the question about the case in the
Discussion area and likewise read and respond to
the follow-on selections in the textbook for the
case in the Statistics in Action Revisited. What
is a point estimate of the mean overpayment?
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1. Health Care workers who use latex gloves
with glove powder on a daily basis are
particularly susceptible to developing a latex
allergy. Each in a sample of 43 hospital
employees who were diagnosed with a latex allergy
based on a skin-prick test reported on their
exposure to latex gloves. Summary statistics for
the number of latex gloves used per week are x
19.4 and s 12.3. Complete parts (a) (d).
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MATH 533 Week 4 Quiz (2 Sets) (New) FOR MORE
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www.math533rank.com   1. A random samples of
1020 satellite radio subscribers were asked, Do
you have a satellite radio receiver in your car?
The survey found that 102 subscribers did, in
fact, have a satellite receiver in their car. 2.
Each child in a sample of 64 low-income
children was administered a language and
communication exam. The sentence complexity
scores had a mean of 7.62 and a standard
deviation of 8.91. Complete parts a through d.
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MATH 533 Week 5 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
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ead the selection in your text book pertaining to
the Case Statistics in Action Diary of a
Kleenex User load the data set for the case,
TISSUES, into Minitab answer the question about
the case in the Discussion area and likewise
read and respond to the follow-on selections in
the textbook for the case in the Statistics in
Action Revisited.
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www.math533rank.com   1. A study of n
90,000 first-time candidates for an exam found
that the number of semester hours of college
credit taken by the sampled candidates is
summarized by x 145.72 and s 18.53. A
professor claims that the true mean number of
semester hours of college credit taken is 145.
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. A group of professors investigated
first-year college students knowledge of
astronomy. One concept of interest was the Big
Bang Theory of the creation of the universe. In a
sample 0f 141 freshman students, 35 believed that
the Big Bang Theory accurately described the
creation of plantery systems. Baesd on this
information, is it correct at the a 0.01 level
of significance to state that more than 20 of
all freshman college students believe the Big
Bang theory describes the creation of planetary
systems?
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MATH 533 Week 6 Course Project Part B Hypothesis
Testing and Confidence Intervals (SALESCALL
Project) (New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.math533rank.com   Your Instructor
will provide you with four manager speculations,
a.-d., in the Doc Sharing file. Using the sample
data, perform the hypothesis test for each of the
above situations in order to see if there is
evidence to support your managers belief in each
case a.-d. In each case use the Seven Elements
of a Test of Hypothesis, in Section 6.2 of your
text book, using the a provided by your
Instructor in the Doc Sharing materials, and
explain your conclusion in simple terms.
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MATH 533 Week 6 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
Legal AdvertisingDoes It Pay? (New) FOR MORE
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www.math533rank.com   Read the Case Statistics
In Action Legal AdvertisingDoes It Pay?, and
answer the following questions. (The case is
included in your textbook, Chapter 10.) The data
set for the case study is LEGALADV, and it is
available in your textbook resources, so you
don't have to enter the data!
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. A MINITAB printout relating the size of
the diamond (number of carats) to the asking
price (dollars) for 308 diamonds is shown below.
Complete parts a through e. 2. The average
driving distance (yards) and driving accuracy
(percent of drives that land in the
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MATH 533 Week 6 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
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. An association was formed by students to
protest labor exploitation in the apparel
industry. There were 18 student sit-ins for a
sweet-free campus organized at several
universities. Data were collected for the
duration (in days) of each sit-in, as well as the
number of student arrests. The data for 5 sit-ins
in which there was at least one arrest and the
results of a simple linear regression are found
below. Let y be the number of arrests and x be
the duration. Complete parts a through d.
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MATH 533 Week 7 Course Project Part C Regression
and Correlation Analysis (SALESCALL Project)
(New) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.math533rank.com   Your Instructor will
specify for you the dependent variable and the
independent variables in your Case and data.
Using MINITAB perform the regression and
correlation analysis for the data by answering
the following. Generate a scatterplot for the
specified dependent variable and the specified
independent variable, including the graph of the
"best fit" line. Interpret.
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  MATH 533 Week 7 DQ 1 Case Statistics in
Action Bid-Rigging in the Highway Construction
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www.math533rank.com   Read the Case
Statistics in Action Bid-Rigging in the Highway
Construction Industry, in Chapter 11 of your
textbook, and answer the following questions. The
data set, FLAG, for the case study is available
in the publishers website, so you dont need to
enter the data into Minitab by hand. What is this
case about? Describe the key variables.
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. Researchers developed a safety performance
function (SPF), which estimates the probability
of occurrence of a crash for a given segment of
roadway. Using data on over 100 segments of
roadway, they fit the model E(y) , where
y number of crashes per three years, roadway
length (miles), and average annual daily
traffic (number of vehicles) AADT.
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. Data on the average annual precipitation
(y), altitude (x1), latitude (x2), and distance
from the coast (x3) for a particular state were
collected for 10 meteorological stations. The
observations are listed in the table below.
Consider the first-order model y , e.
Complete parts a through c.
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