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Please have someone that is really good at statistics complete this work. thanks in advance.
Write a 1,000 word APA formatted paper applying the information learned in this week''s material to a past, current, or future job (apply some statistical concept to your job). Include at least two references. In addition, complete and include the following problems.
Question 1: Provide two examples each of nominal, ordinal, and interval data.
Nominal -Barcodes and social security numbers
Ordinal - On a scale of 1 - 5 how much pain are you experiencing 1 would be the extreme pain 5 would be no pain.
How satisfied are you with our customer service on a scale from 5 to 1 the most satisfied would be 5 the least satisfied would be 1
Interval Data - The difference between 29 and 30 degrees is the same magnitude as the difference between 78 and 79 (although I know I prefer the latter).
Question 2: For each of the following examples of data, determine the type.
a. the weekly closing price of the stock of Amazon.com
b. the month of highest vacancy rate at a LaQuinta motel? Ordinal
c. the size of soft drink (small, medium, orlarge) ordered by a sample of McDonald's customers. Interval
d. the number of Toyotas imported monthly by the United States over the last 5 years
e. the marks achieved by the students in a statistics course final exam marked out of 100
Question 3: When will the world run out of oil? One way to judge is to determine the oil reserves of the countries around the world. The next table displays the known oil reserves of the top 15 countries. Graphically describe the figures.
| Country |
Reserves |
| Angola |
25,000,000,000 |
| Canada |
1 78,900,000,000 |
| China |
1 8,260,000,000 |
| Iran |
1 33,300,000,000 |
| Iraq |
11 2,500,000,000 |
| Kazakhstan |
26,000,000,000 |
| Kuwait |
96,500,000,000 |
| Libya |
40,000,000,000 |
| Mexico |
33,310,000,000 |
| Nigeria |
36,000,000,00 |
| Russia |
69,000,000,000 |
| Saudi Arabia |
262,700,000,000 |
| United Arab Emirates |
97,800,000,000 |
| United States |
22,450,000,000 |
| Venezuela |
75,590,000,000 |
Question 4: The following table lists the averageoil consumption per day for 1 5 countries.
Use a graphical technique to present these figures. ConsumptionCountry (barrels per day)
| Brazil |
2,1 00,000 |
| Canada |
2,1 93,000 |
| China |
6,391 ,000 |
| France |
2,060,000 |
| Germany |
2,677,000 |
| India |
2,320,000 |
| Italy |
1 ,874,000 |
| Japan |
5,578,000 |
| South Korea |
2,1 68,000 |
| Mexico |
1 ,752,000 |
| Russia |
2,800,000 |
| Saudi Arabia |
1 ,775,000 |
| Spain |
1 ,544,000 |
| United Kingdom |
1 ,722,000 |
| United States |
20,030,000 |
Question 5: The number of items rejected daily by amanufacturer because of defects was recorded forthe past 30 days. The results are as follows.
4 9 1 3 7 5 8 1 2 1 5 5 7 3
8 1 5 1 7 1 9 6 4 1 0 8 22 1 6 9
5 3 9 1 9 1 4 1 3 1 8 7
a. Construct a histogram.
b. Construct an ogive.
c. Describe the shape of the histogram.
Question 6: A large investment firm on Wall Street wants to review the distribution of ages of its stockbrokers. The firm believes that this information can be useful in developing plans to recruit new brokers. The ages of a sample of 40 brokers are shown here.
46 28 51 34 29 40 38 33 41 52
53 40 50 33 36 41 25 38 37 41
36 50 46 33 61 48 32 28 30 49
41 37 26 39 35 39 46 26 31 35
a. Draw a stem-and-leaf display.
b. Draw a histogram.
c. Draw an ogive.
d. Describe what you have learned.
Question 7: The amount of time (in seconds) needed to complete a critical task on an assembly line was measured for a sample of 50 assemblies.
These data are as follows:
30.3 34.5 31 .1 30.9 33.7
31 .9 33.1 31 .1 30.0 32.7
34.4 30.1 34.6 31 .6 32.4
32.8 31 .0 30.2 30.2 32.8
31 .1 30.7 33.1 34.4 31 .0
32.2 30.9 32.1 34.2 30.7
30.7 30.7 30.6 30.2 33.4
36.8 30.2 31 .5 30.1 35.7
30.5 30.6 30.2 31 .4 30.7
30.6 37.9 30.3 34.1 30.4
a. Draw a stem-and-leaf display.
b. Draw a histogram.
c. Describe the histogram.
Question 8: The major networks compete to broadcast the summer and winter Olympic games. The first winter games were broadcasted in 1 960 from Squaw Valley. The following table lists the amounts spent by the winning network.
| Year |
Site |
Network |
Price |
| ($millions) |
|
|
|
| 1 960 |
Squaw Valley |
CBS |
0.39 |
| 1 964 |
Innsbruck |
ABC |
0.6 |
| 1 968 |
Grenoble |
ABC |
2.5 |
| 1 972 |
Sapporo |
NBC |
6.4 |
| 1 976 |
Innsbruck |
ABC |
1 0.0 |
| 1 980 |
Lake Placid |
ABC |
1 5.5 |
| 1 984 |
Sarajevo |
ABC |
91 .5 |
| 1 988 |
Calgary |
ABC |
309 |
| 1 992 |
Albertville |
CBS |
243 |
| 1 994 |
Lillehammer |
CBS |
300 |
| 1 998 |
Nagano |
CBS |
375 |
| 2002 |
Salt Lake City |
NBC |
545 |
| 2006 |
Turin |
NBC |
61 3 |
Draw a chart to describe these prices paidby the networks.