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Week 2 individual work answers for a statistics course.

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STA 2014 Week 2 Individual Work Solution Correct Answers - Page 1 preview imageSTA 2014 Week2Individual WorkSolution Correct Answers1.1 Skill Building22. Number of Siblings24. Number on a football player’s jersey32. Number of sequoia trees in a randomly selected acre of Yosemite National Park34. Internetconnection speed in Kilobytes per second52. BMW cars the following information relates to the 2008 model year product line ofautomobiles.58. Financial Worries? Gallup News Service conducted a survey of 1,006 American adult aged18 years or older.September 24-27, 2007.The respondents were asked, “What, if anything,worries you most about your personal financial situation in the long term?”Of the 1,006 adultssurveyed, 18% said they were most worried about having enough money for retirement.(Ironically, not having enough money for retirement was not a short-term concern.)Gallupreported that 18% of all adult Americans were most worried about not having enough money forretirement, with a 4% margin of error with 95% confidence.(a) What is the research objective?(b) What is the population?(c) What is the sample?
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STA 2014 Week 2 Individual Work Solution Correct Answers - Page 3 preview image(d) List the descriptive statistics.(e) What can be inferred from the survey?1.2 Skill Building14. While shopping, 200 people were asked to perform a taste test in which they drink from tworandomly placed, unmarked cups.They are then asked which drink they prefer.16. Conservation agents netted 250 large-mouth bass in a lake and determined how many werecarrying parasites.1.5 Skill Building14. The village of Oak Lawn wishes to conduct a study regarding the income level of householdswithin the village.The village manager selects 10 homes in southwest corner of the village andsends an interviewer to the homes to determine household income.16. Suppose you are conducting a survey regarding the sleeping habits of students.From a listof registered students, you obtain a simple random sample of 150 students. One survey questionis “How much sleep do you get?18. Cold Stone Creamery is considering opening a new store in O’Fallon. Before opening thestore, the company would like to know the percentage of households in O ’Fallen that regularlyvisit an ice cream shop.The market researcher obtains a list of households in O ‘Fallon andrandomly selects 150 of them.He mails a questionnaire to the 150 households that ask aboutice cream eating habits and flavor preferences.Of the 150 questions mailed 4 are returned.
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STA 2014 Week 2 Individual Work Solution Correct Answers - Page 4 preview image20. A health teacher wishes to do research on the weight of college students.She obtains theweights for all the students in her 9 A.M. class by looking at their driver’s licenses or state IDs.1.6 Applying Concepts12.Pharmacy. A pharmaceutical company has developed an experimental drug meant to relievesymptoms associated with the common cold.The company identifies 300 adult males 25-29years old who have a common cold and randomly divides them into two groups.Group 1 isgiven the experimental drug, while group 2 is given placebo.After 1 week of treatment, theproportions of each group that still have cold symptoms are compared.(A) What is the response variable in this example?(B) Think of some of the factors in the study.How are they controlled?(C) What are treatments?How many treatments are there?( D) How are the factors that are not controlled dealt with?( E) What type of experimental design is this?( F) Identify the subjects.(G) Draw a diagram similar to figure 7, 8, or 10 to illustrate the design.300 RandomMale’s ages 25-29 withcommon coldGroup 1150Group 2150Group 1Given ExperimentalDrugGroup 2Given PlaceboCompareWho still hadsymptoms?
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