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Assignment Specifications
Purpose:
This assignment aims at Understand various qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and techniques, and other general purposes are:
1. Explain how statistical techniques can solve business problems
2. Identify and evaluate valid statistical techniques in a given scenario to solve business problems
3. Explain and justify the results of a statistical analysis in the context of critical reasoning for a business problem solving
4. Apply statistical knowledge to summarize data graphically and statistically, either manually or via a computer package
5. Justify and interpret statistical/analytical scenarios that best fits business solution
Assignment Structure should be as the following:
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The numbers of weekly sales calls by a sample of 40 telemarketers were recorded in the table below.
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14
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8
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6
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12
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21
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4
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9
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0
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25
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17
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9
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5
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8
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18
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16
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3
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17
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19
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10
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15
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5
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20
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17
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14
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19
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7
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10
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15
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10
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8
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28
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31
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27
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30
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2
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17
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26
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11
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29
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19
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i. Construct a frequency distribution and a relative frequency distribution for the data.
ii. Construct a cumulative frequency distribution and a cumulative relative frequency distribution for the data.
iii. Plot a relative frequency histogram for the data.
iv. Construct an ogive for the data.
v. What proportion of the data is less than 20?
vi. What proportion of the data is more than 24?
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Classes
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Frequency
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Relative
Frequency
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Cumulative
Frequency
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Cumulative
Relative
Frequency
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0- 4
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5- 9
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10- 14
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15- 19
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20- 24
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24- 29
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30- 34
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