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1 .      

Last quarter, 33.8% of television viewers in Johnsonville watched WDAY's new afternoon news program. Identify the population whose properties are analyzed by the data in the previous statement.

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2 .      

Identify an appropriate frequency distribution for the data set:

41, 35, 29, 40, 33, 34, 33, 40, 40, 37, 40, 43, 39, 34, 50, 42, 48, 35, 38, 52.

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3 .      

Identify the correct grouped frequency distribution for the histogram.

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4 .      

Identify the correct stem-leaf diagram for the data set: 30, 22, 26, 33, 27, 17, 45, 31, 12, 18, 42, 51.

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5 .      

Identify the correct frequency distribution for the data set: 40, 20, 25, 25, 35, 30, 40, 55, 35, 45, 50, 20, 25, 35, 45, 50, 40, 50, 30, 40.

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6 .      

Find the mean of the following data set: 98, 67, 84, 60, 58, 100, 93.

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7 .      

Find the median of the following data set: 98, 67, 84, 60, 58, 100, 93.

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8 .      

Find the mode for the following data set: 14, 18, 15, 20, 14, 30, 22, 16, 14.

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9 .      

Find the midrange for the following data set: 98, 67, 84, 60, 58, 100, 93.

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10 .      

Find the range for the following data set: 98, 67, 84, 60, 58, 100, 93.

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11 .      

Find the sample standard deviation for the following data set: 10, 8, 2, 4, 6, 3, 10, 5.

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12 .      

Find the mean for the following frequency distribution.

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13 .      

Find the median for the following frequency distribution.

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14 .      

Find the mode for the following frequency distribution.

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15 .      

A prospective client asks a cruise operator about the weekly cost of taking a cruise to the Bahamas. Which measure of central tendency is the best indicator of "average" cost in this situation?

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16 .      

The mean time for a runner on a 2-mile course is 10 minutes with a standard deviation of 0.6 minutes. If the runner's times are normally distributed, find the z-score for a time of 11.2 minutes.

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17 .      

The playing life of a DVD player is normally distributed with a mean of 600 hours and a standard deviation of 100 hours. Find the percentage of DVD players that will last from 600 to 700 hours. Use the 68-95-99.7rule.

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18 .      

If a set of test scores is normally distributed with a mean of 72 and a standard deviation of 15, what percentage of the scores are between 84 and 90? Use the following percentile table.

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19 .      

Using a random sample of 50 members from a country club with approximately 1500 members, 70% of the sample said that they were satisfied with the food services at the club. Find the margin of error in this percentage.

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20 .      

A set of data is normally distributed with a mean of 650 and a standard deviation of 70. Find the data item in this distribution that corresponds to a z-score of −2.5.

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21 .      

Identify the correct scatter plot for the following data.

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22 .      

Find the correlation coefficient for the following data.

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23 .      

Identify the correlation coefficient that represents a moderate positive correlation between two variables.

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24 .      

Find the regression line for the following data set.

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25 .      

If the equation of the regression line for an experiment testing the relationship between two variables is y = 3.64 + 1.89x, find an approximate y-value for an x-value of 12.

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