Exam 5: Numerical Descriptive Measures

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The following data represent the ages (in years) of a sample of 25 employees from a government department: 31 43 56 23 49 42 33 61 44 28 48 38 44 35 40 64 52 42 47 39 53 27 36 35 20 Find the coefficient of variation.

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The coefficient of variation allows us to compare two sets of data based on different measurement units.

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The following data represent the salaries (in thousands of dollars) of a sample of 13 employees of a firm: 26.5 23.5 29.7 24.8 21.1 24.3 20.4 22.7 27.2 23.7 24.1 24.8 28.2 Consider the following population of measurements: 162 152 177 157 184 176 165 181 170 163 a. Compute the mean. b. Compute the median. c. Compute the variance and the standard deviation.

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Which of the following is not a measure of variability?

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Which of the following statements is true?

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The following data represent the salaries (in thousands of dollars) of a sample of 13 employees of a firm: 26.5 23.5 29.7 24.8 21.1 24.3 20.4 22.7 27.2 23.7 24.1 24.8 28.2 Compute the median salary.

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A courier company is reviewing their delivery times. The following descriptive statistics relates to this courier company. The mean time for package delivery is 5 hours, the first quartile is 4 hours, the third quartile is 17 hours. This means that the 25% of the deliveries take more than 17 hours.

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