Jose Miguel Vienes Ms. Kierselenn Talavero BSBA-311 08 Quiz 1 Quiz (3 Items X 5 Points)
Jose Miguel Vienes Ms. Kierselenn Talavero BSBA-311 08 Quiz 1 Quiz (3 Items X 5 Points)
Kierselenn Talavero
BSBA-311
08 Quiz 1
Quiz (3 items x 5 points)
1. A firm of architects is attempting to get a feel for the sizes of houses in Colton’s suburb in the city
of Baycoast because it has been commissioned to design a house in Colton. Using their contacts
at Baycoast City Real Estate Agents, the architects are provided with information on a sample of
13 houses. Compute the mode, median, and mean for the number of bedrooms. Calculate the
mean, median, and modal number of bathrooms and the number of all rooms. Interpret the
results.
110 Colton 2 1 5
108 Colton 2 1 5
100 Colton 2 1 5
89 Colton 2 2 6
96 Colton 3 1.5 6
94 Colton 3 1 7
93 Colton 3 1.5 6
114 Colton 4 2 8
115 Colton 5 2 9
Answer:
1 5
1 5
1.5 6
1.5 6 Mean
1.5 6
1.5 7
2 7
2 8
2 9
19 81
1. Determine the 15th percentile of the waiting times of the sample of café customers presented in
the table below. Interpret the results.
7 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 10 10 10 11 12 14 14 15
Answer:
100 100
= 2.4
2. An investor in the telecommunications industry has been provided with some questionable
information in a prospectus regarding market potential in New Zealand, particularly about
potentially over-optimistic statements made about the average monthly download usage for
broadband connections. The investor obtains data from recent reports on usage from a variety of
sources. The average monthly data usage by a household with broadband connections listed in a
random sample of 12 such reports is as stated as follows, sorted by usage. Interpret the results.
Average monthly 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 190
Determine the first, second, and third quartiles for these data.
Answer:
100 2
=3 P25 = 125
P50 = 150 + 160 i= 25 (18) P75 = 170 + 180
2 100 2
Quartile 1 = 125
Quartile 2 = 155
Quartile 3 = 175