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MATH 533 Entire Course   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   (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 Population standard
deviation 5
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MATH 533 Final Exam Set 2   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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         a. Compute the
mean, median, mode, and standard deviation, Q1,
Q3, Min, and Max for the above sample data on
number of sales calls per month.
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MATH 533 Week 1 Homework   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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
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MATH 533 Week 1 Quiz   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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   For
more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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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MATH 533 Week 2 Quiz For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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
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MATH 533 Week 3 DQ 1 Ethics in Statistics
Readings and Discussion   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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.
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MATH 533 Week 3 Homework   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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
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MATH 533 Week 3 Quiz   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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.
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MATH 533 Week 4 Homework   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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
Diary of a Kleenex User   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Read 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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MATH 533 Week 5 Homework   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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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MATH 533 Week 5 Quiz   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.      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
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MATH 533 Week 6 Course Project Part B Hypothesis
Testing and Confidence Intervals (SALESCALL
Project)   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.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
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MATH 533 Week 6 DQ 1 Case Statistics in Action
Legal AdvertisingDoes It Pay   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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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MATH 533 Week 6 Homework For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.      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 fairway) for 8 golfers are recorded in the
table to the right. Complete parts a through e
below.
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MATH 533 Week 6 Quiz   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.      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
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MATH 533 Week 7 Course Project Part C Regression
and Correlation Analysis (SALESCALL
Project)   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.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
Industry   For more classes visit www.snaptutorial
.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.
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MATH 533 Week 7 Homework   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.      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
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MATH 533 Week 7 Quiz   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   1.      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. 2.      Researchers developed
a safety performance function (SPF), which
estimates the probability of occurrence
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