Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN: 9781337115186

Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Chapter 1, Problem 4SE

Table 1.7 shows data for eight cordless telephones (Consumer Reports, November 2012). The Overall Score, a measure of the overall quality for the cordless telephone, ranges from 0 to 100. Voice Quality has possible ratings of poor, fair, good, very good, and excellent. Talk Time is the manufacturer’s claim of how long the handset can be used when it is fully charged.

a. How many elements are in this data set?
b. For the variables Price, Overall Score, Voice Quality, Handset on Base, and TalkTime, which variables are categorical and which variables are quantitative?
c. What scale of measurement is used for each variable?

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Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Office Excel (with XLSTAT Education Edition Printed Access Card) (MindTap Course List)

Ch. 1 - 1. Discuss the differences between statistics as...Ch. 1 - 2. Tablet PC Comparison provides a wide variety of...Ch. 1 - 3. Refer to Table 1.6. What is the average cost...Ch. 1 - 4. Table 1.7 shows data for eight cordless...Ch. 1 - 5. Refer to the data set in Table 1.7. What is the...Ch. 1 - 6. J.D. Power and Associates surveys new...Ch. 1 - 7. The Kroger Company is one of the largest...Ch. 1 - 8. The Tennessean, an online newspaper located in...Ch. 1 - 9. The Commerce Department reported receiving the...Ch. 1 - 10. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics...

Ch. 1 - 11. In a Gallup telephone survey conducted on...Ch. 1 - 12. The Hawaii Visitors Bureau collects data on...Ch. 1 - Figure 1.10 provides a bar chart showing the...Ch. 1 - The following data show the number of rental cars...Ch. 1 - The U.S. Census Bureau tracks sales per month for...Ch. 1 - 17. A manager of a large corporation recommends a...Ch. 1 - 18. A random telephone survey of 1021 adults (aged...Ch. 1 - 19. A Bloomberg Businessweek North American...Ch. 1 - 20. A survey of 131 investment managers in...Ch. 1 - 21. A seven-year medical research study reported...Ch. 1 - Prob. 22SE Ch. 1 - Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan polling...Ch. 1 - 24. A sample of midterm grades for five students...Ch. 1 - Table 1.8 shows a data set containing information...

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