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Chapter 1 Question 1 (9 points) The following temperatures and weather conditions were reported for a particular summer day High Low Condition Ci 92 clear cloudy clear Dallas Ft. Worth 89 72 70 Honolulu Los Angeles os Angeles 80 cloudy New York City 6 69 rain a. How many elements are in the above data set? b. How many variables are in this data set? c. Which variables are categorical, and which are quantitative variables? d. What percentage of the cities had clear weather conditions? Question #19 on p.27 worth 8 points (do only parts a, b, c, and e) Cha Section 2.1 : Question#3 (29 points) The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA provides statistics on the most popular majors among incoming college freshman. The five most popular majors are Arts & Humanities (A), Business Administration (B), Engineering (E), Professional (P). and Social Science (S). A broad range of other (O) majors [including biological science, physical science, computer science, and education] are grouped together. The majors selected for a sample of 64 college freshmen follow S P POBEOEPOOBoOOA A EBE AAPOOEO BBOP Summarize the data by constructing or answering the following a. A frequency distribution and percent frequency distribution b. A bar chart (Using Excell) c. What percentage of freshmen select one of the five most popular majors? d. What is the most popular major for incoming freshmen? What percentage of B freshmen select this major? A pie chart (Using Excel) e. Section 2.2: Question #23 on p.54 worth 21 points (Using Excel for histogram) Question #25 on p 55 worth 10 points Sections 2.3: and 2.4: Question #6 (23 points) Using the information about performance data for 10 motion pictures in Table 2.20 on p.86, answer the following questions. a. Prepare a crosstabulation of the data on Opening Gross Sales (rows) and b. Comment on the relationship between the two variables based upon the crosstabulation c. Using Excel, develop a scatter diagram of the data on Opening Gross Sales and d. Comment on the relationship between the two variables based upon the scatter diagram Weeks in Release (columns) developed in part (a) Total Gross Sales. Use the vertical axis for Opening Gross Sales developed in part (c).

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a. There are 5 elements in the above data set, they are Chicago, Dallas- Ft. Worth, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and New York City.

b. There are 3 variables in this data. They are High, Low and Condition.

c. Categorical variable : Condition

Quantitative variable : High and Low

d. Percentage of cities had clear weather conditions

= (2/5)*100 = 0.4 = 40%.