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Assignment Number 1

This assignment is to be done manually. For practice/assistance use Microsoft Excel. The
assignment is of 10 marks and is to be submitted by July of 17th 2019. Please ensure that the
assignment is in presentable form and has not been copied.

Q1. In a recent report, the top five most-visited English-language web sites were google.com
(GOOG), facebook.com (FB), youtube.com (YT), yahoo.com (YAH), and wikipedia.com (WIKI).
The most-visited web sites for a sample of 50 Internet users are shown in the following table:

YAH WIKI YT WIKI GOOG


YT YAH GOOG GOOG GOOG
WIKI GOOG YAH YAH YAH
YAH YT GOOG YT YAH
GOOG FB FB WIKI GOOG
GOOG GOOG FB FB WIKI
FB YAH YT YAH YAH
YT GOOG YAH FB FB
WIKI GOOG YAH WIKI WIKI
YAH YT GOOG GOOG WIKI

a. Provide frequency and percent frequency distributions.


b. Make a bar chart.
c. On the basis of the sample, which web site is most frequently the most-often-visited web
site for Internet users? Which is second?

Q2. In a study of how chief executive officers (CEOs) spend their days, it was found that CEOs
spend an average of about 18 hours per week in meetings, not including conference calls, business
meals, and public events. Shown here are the times spent per week in meetings (hours) for a sample
of 25 CEOs:

14 15 18 23 15
19 20 13 15 23
23 21 15 20 21
16 15 18 18 19
19 22 23 21 12

a. Prepare a frequency distribution, relative frequency distribution and a percent frequency


distribution for the data.
b. Prepare cumulative frequency distribution, relative cumulative frequency distribution and
percent cumulative frequency distribution for the data.
c. Prepare a histogram and comment on the shape of the distribution.
Q3. Consider the following data set:

24 67 17 20 31 44 12 23 16 37

a. Calculate mean, median and mode


b. Calculate variance and standard deviation and coefficient of variation
c. Calculate Z-scores.
d. Find the 65th percentile of this data set.
e. Draw a box plot for this data.

Q4. Consider the following data set for variables x and y:

x 4 6 11 3 16
y 50 50 40 60 30

a. Develop a scatter diagram


b. What does the scatter diagram developed in part indicate about the relationship between
the two variables?
c. Compute and interpret the sample covariance.
d. Compute and interpret the sample correlation coefficient.

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