Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780134685113
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 14, Problem 75PS
Measuring the height of a California redwood tree is very difficult because these trees grow to heights over 300 feet. People familiar with these trees understand that the height of a California redwood tree is related to other characteristics of the tree, including the diameter of the tree at the breast height of a person (in inches) and the thickness of the bark of the tree (in inches). The file Redwood contains the height, diameter at breast hight of a person, and bank thickness for a sample of 21 California redwood trees.
a. State the multiple regression equation that predicts the height of a tree, based on the tree’s diameter at breast height and thickness of the bark.
b. Interpret the meaning of the slopes in the equation.
c. Predict the
d. Interpret the meaning of the coefficient of multiple determination in this problem.
e. Perform a residual analysis on the model and determine whether the regression
assumptions are valid.
f. Determine whether there is a significant relationship between the height of redwood trees and the two independent variables (breast-height diameter and bark thickness) at the 0.05 level of significance.
g. Construct a
h. At the 0.05 level of significance, determine whether each independent variables makes a significant contribution to the regression model. Indicate the independent variables to include in this model.
i. Construct a
j. Compute the interpret the coefficients of partial determination.
k. What conclusions can you reach concerning the effect of the diameter of tree and the thickness of the bark on the height of the tree?
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Jesse runs a small business selling and delivering mealie meal to the spaza shops.
He charges a fixed rate of R80, 00 for delivery and then R15, 50 for each packet of
mealle meal he delivers. The table below helps him to calculate what to charge
his customers.
10
20
30
40
50
Packets of mealie
meal (m)
Total costs in Rands
80
235
390
545
700
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10.1.
Define the following terms:
10.1.1. Independent Variables
10.1.2. Dependent Variables
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10.4.
10.5.
Determine the independent and dependent variables.
Are the variables in this scenario discrete or continuous values? Explain
What shape do you expect the graph to be? Why?
Draw a graph on the graph provided to represent the information in the
table above.
TOTAL COST OF PACKETS OF MEALIE MEAL
900
800
700
600
COST (R)
500
400
300
200
100
0
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60
NUMBER OF PACKETS OF MEALIE MEAL
Let X be a random variable with support SX = {−3, 0.5, 3, −2.5, 3.5}. Part ofits probability mass function (PMF) is given bypX(−3) = 0.15, pX(−2.5) = 0.3, pX(3) = 0.2, pX(3.5) = 0.15.(a) Find pX(0.5).(b) Find the cumulative distribution function (CDF), FX(x), of X.1(c) Sketch the graph of FX(x).
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