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Chapter 1: Tutorial

1. Determine whether the data set is a population or a sample.


a) The age of the Prime Minister of each Province in South Africa.
b) The speed of every 5th car passing a police speed trap.
c) A survey of 500 students from a university with 10000 students.
d) The annual salary for each employee at Coke.
e) The cholesterol level of 20 patients in a hospital with 100 patients.

2. Determine whether the numeric value is a parameter or a statistic.


a) The average annual salary for 25 of a company’s 1250 statisticians is R250000.
b) In a survey of a sample of high school students, 41% said that their mother has taught them the most about managing money.
c) In a survey of sample computers, 15% said their computer had a malfunction that needed to be repaired by a service technician.
d) In a recent year, the interest category for 9% of all new magazines was sport.
e) In a recent year, the average stats mark for all graduates at UKZN was 34%.
f) In a recent survey of 1000 adults from Gauteng, 34% said using a cell phone while driving should be illegal.

3. For each of the following random variables (a) to (p),


i. indicate the data type (i.e. discrete or continuous), and
ii. the measurement scale (i.e. nominal, ordinal, interval or ratio).

a) The shelf life of milk.


b) The number of life policies issued per day.
c) The area of a shop floor.
d) The number of pages in a textbook.
e) The flavours available in Dogmore food chunks.
f) The types of wood that could be used to make a desk.
g) The size categories for shoes.
h) The voltage produced by a generator.
i) The car types in the Mercedes range.
j) The “yes/no/sometimes” response to “Do you drink Gin?”.
k) The number of loaves of bread sold daily by a bakery.
l) The income per day of a bakery.
m) The monthly birth rate at a maternity hospital.
n) The mass of babies at birth.
o) The daily distance travelled by a courier service truck.
p) The names of teams in a cricket league.

4. We wish to choose 7 winners at random to receive prizes for a lucky random draw without replacement (no person can win more than
once). There are 52 entries; each person is labelled number 1 to number 52. Use the following list of random numbers from left to right to
choose the 7 winners:
12651 61646 11769 75109 86996
81769 74436 02630 72310 45049
36737 98863 77240 76251 00654
82861 54371 76610 94934 72748

5. A city’s telephone book lists 100 000 people. If the telephone book is the frame for a study, how large would the sample size be if
systematic sampling were done on every 200th person?

6. If every 11th item is systematically sampled to produce a sample size of 75 items, approximately how large is the population?

7. In a study investigating liver function in birds, the birds were divided into 3 groups: Adult Males, Adult Females and Cubs (less than a year
old).
Birds Percentage of population

Adult Males 20
Adult Females 32
Cubs (less than a year old) 48

A stratified sample of 120 birds is to be selected for this study. How many birds should be represented by each stratum?
8. Cadbury wants to market a new type of chocolate and needs to know how potential customers might react to the product. It is decided
that age (under 21, 21 to 40, over 40), gender (male, female) and race (black, coloured, Indian, white) are the characteristics that will
determine the sample. Quota sampling is to be used.
a. How many possible categories are there to be sampled from (in stage 2 of quota sampling)?
b. What is an advantage of using quota sampling?
c. What is a disadvantage in using quota sampling?

Extra Questions

Question 1:
For each of the variables below, identify whether they are
i) Continuous or discrete
ii) Qualitative or quantitative

AND give their level of measurement.

1) The flavours of instant cappuccinos sold at supermarkets.


2) The number of cappuccinos sold at a family restaurant.
3) The weight of the coffee beans used monthly at a coffee shop.
4) The “Best by” dates on packets of coffee beans.
5) The temperature of “cold chocolate” drinks.
6) The service rating – excellent, good, average, poor – at a restaurant.
7) The level of study of university students (1st year, 2nd year etc) that drink coffee daily.
8) The number of years spent studying at university.

Question 2:
Consider the situations described below. Identify which numerical values (numbers) are samples, populations, statistics, and parameters.
1. There are 800 runners registered to run in a marathon. It is known that the average age of the 800 runners is 41 years. At a water station 55 runners
were asked their age. Their average age was found to be 36.5 years.
2. The Department of Education was concerned about the schooling in high schools in a particular area. Three hundred (300) students from these high
schools were randomly chosen to write a standardized test. Their average test mark of 61% was quite similar to the national average test mark of
65%.
3. What sampling method is being used in part a(i)?
4. What is the population of interest in part a(ii)?

Question 2:
Consider the statements in Questions 1 to 5. Identify which are true and which are false.

1. The sample frame is the same as the population.


2. The statistics calculated from biased samples might not be good approximations of the population parameters.
3. Quota sampling is not an example of probability sampling.
4. A census is a study done on a biased sample.
5. Qualitative variables can be continuous variables.

Question 3:
1. Many “Home Chefs” apply to take part in a cooking competition. On the application form the Home Chefs are asked if they have a full time job, a
part time job, or no job. Of the 760 applicants, 228 have full time jobs, 405 have part time jobs and the rest have no job. The organisers want to take
a stratified sample of 50 applicants. They want the sample proportion of applicants in each job category to reflect that of all the applicants.
Approximately how many applicants should be chosen from each of the job categories?
2. Suppose a systematic sample of 25 items is to be selected from a population of 500 items. The items in the population are numbered 1 to 500 (Item
1 to Item 500). If the 124th item (Item 124) is randomly selected as the first item of the sample, what is the number of the 5th item selected into the
sample?

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