Ski Resorts of Vermont Inc. is considering a merger with Gulf Shores Beach Resorts compay of Alabama. The board of directors surveyed 50 stockholders concerning their position on the merger. The results are reported below.What level of measurement is used in this table?

	Opinion
Number of Shares Held	Favor	Oppose	Undecided	Total
Under 200	8	6	2	16
200 up to 1,000	6	8	1	15
Over 1,000	6	12	1	19
Total	20	26	4	50

The Director of Planning for Devine Dining company wishes to study the relationship between the gender of a guest and whether the guest orders dessert. To investigate the relationship, the manager collected the following information on 200 recent customers. What is the table called?

Assume the Knight Corporation is considering the acquisition of Day Inc. The expected earnings per share for the Knight Corporation will be $\$4.00$ with or without the merger. However, the standard deviation of the earnings will go from $\$2.40$ to $\$1.60$ with the merger because the two firms are negatively correlated. Compute the coefficient of variation for the Knight Corporation before and after the merger (consult the Chapter to review statistical concepts if necessary).

The Director of Planning for Devine Dining company wishes to study the relationship between the gender of a guest and whether the guest orders dessert. To investigate the relationship, the manager collected the following information on 200 recent customers.What is the level of measurement of the two variables?

A sample of 28 time-shares in the Orlando, Florida, area revealed the following daily charges for a one-bedroom suite. For convenience, the data are ordered from smallest to largest. Construct a box plot to represent the data. Comment on the distribution. Be sure to identify the first and third quartiles and the median.

$$\begin{array}{|rrrrrrr|} \hline\$ 116 & \$ 121 & \$ 157 & \$ 192 & \$ 207 & \$ 209 & \$ 209 \\ 229 & 232 & 236 & 236 & 239 & 243 & 246 \\ 260 & 264 & 276 & 281 & 283 & 289 & 296 \\ 307 & 309 & 312 & 317 & 324 & 341 & 353 \\ \hline \end{array}$$

An auto insurance company reported the following information regarding the age of a driver and the number of accidents reported last year. Develop a scatter diagram for the data and write a brief summary.

$$\begin{array}{lccc} \text { Age } & \text { Accidents } & \text { Age } & \text { Accidents } \\ 16 & 4 & 23 & 0 \\ 24 & 2 & 27 & 1 \\ 18 & 5 & 32 & 1 \\ 17 & 4 & 22 & 3 \end{array}$$

Bidwell Electronics Inc. recently surveyed a sample of employees to determine how far they lived from corporate headquarters. The results are shown below. Compute the mean and the standard deviation.

$$\begin{array}{ccr} \text { Distance (miles) } & \text { Frequency } & \boldsymbol{M} \\ \hline \text { 0 up to } 5 & 4 & 2.5 \\ 5 \text { up to } 10 & 15 & 7.5 \\ 10 \text { up to } 15 & 27 & 12.5 \\ 15 \text { up to } 20 & 18 & 17.5 \\ 20 \text { up to } 25 & 6 & 22.5 \end{array}$$

Is gender quantitative or qualitative data?

The Director of Planning for Devine Dining company wishes to study the relationship between the gender of a guest and whether the guest orders dessert. To investigate the relationship, the manager collected the following information on 200 recent customers. Does the evidence in the table suggest men are more likely to order dessert than women? Explain why.

Kevin Horn is the national sales manager for National Textbooks Company. He has a sales staff of 40 who visit college professors all over the United States. Each Saturday morning, he requires his sales staff to send him a report. This report includes, among other things, the number of professors visited during the previous week.Table below, ordered from smallest to largest, are the number of visits last week.Calculate the 33rd percentile.

$$\begin{array}{|llllllllllllllllllll|} \hline 38 & 40 & 41 & 45 & 48 & 48 & 50 & 50 & 51 & 51 & 52 & 52 & 53 & 54 & 55 & 55 & 55 & 56 & 56 & 57 \\ 59 & 59 & 59 & 62 & 62 & 62 & 63 & 64 & 65 & 66 & 66 & 67 & 67 & 69 & 69 & 71 & 77 & 78 & 79 & 79 \\ \hline \end{array}$$

The American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN; www.aspan.org) is a national organization serving nurses practicing in ambulatory surgery, preanesthesia, and postanesthesia care. The organization consists of the 40 components listed below.Use statistical software to answer.Find the coefficient of skewness, using the software. What do you conclude about the shape of the distribution of component size?

$$\begin{array}{|lc|} \hline \text { State/Region } & \text { Membership } \\ \hline \text { Alabama } & 95 \\ \text { Arizona } & 399 \\ \text { Maryland, Delaware, DC } & 531 \\ \text { Connecticut } & 239 \\ \text { Florida } & 631 \\ \text { Georgia } & 384 \\ \text { Hawaii } & 73 \\ \text { Illinois } & 562 \\ \text { Indiana } & 270 \\ \text { lowa } & 117 \\ \text { Kentucky } & 197 \\ \text { Louisiana } & 258 \\ \text { Michigan } & 411 \\ \text { Massachusetts } & 480 \\ \text { Maine } & 97 \\ \text { Minnesota, Dakotas } & 289 \\ \text { Missouri, Kansas } & 282 \\ \text { Mississippi } & 90 \\ \text { Nebraska } & 115 \\ \text { North Carolina } & 542 \\ \text { Nevada } & 106 \\ \text { New Jersey, Bermuda } & 517 \\ \text { Alaska, Idaho, Montana, } & \\ \text { Oregon, Washington } & 708 \\ \text { New York } & 891 \\ \text { Ohio } & 708 \\ \text { Oklahoma } & 171 \\ \text { Arkansas } & 68 \\ \text { California } & 1,165 \\ \text { New Mexico } & 79 \\ \text { Pennsylvania } & 575 \\ \text { Rhode Island } & 53 \\ \text { Colorado } & 409 \\ \text { South Carolina } & 237 \\ \text { Texas } & 1,026 \\ \text { Tennessee } & 167 \\ \text { Utah } & 67 \\ \text { Virginia } & 414 \\ \text { Vermont, } & \\ \text { New Hampshire } & 144 \\ \text { Wisconsin } & 311 \\ \text { West Virginia } & 62 \\ \hline \end{array}$$

Kevin Horn is the national sales manager for National Textbooks Inc. He has a sales staff of 40 who visit college professors all over the United States. Each Saturday morning he requires his sales staff to send him a report. This report includes, among other things, the number of professors visited during the previous week. Listed below, ordered from smallest to largest, are the number of visits last week.

$$\begin{array}{llllllllllllllllllll} 38 & 40 & 41 & 45 & 48 & 48 & 50 & 50 & 51 & 51 & 52 & 52 & 53 & 54 & 55 & 55 & 55 & 56 & 56 & 57 \\ 59 & 59 & 59 & 62 & 62 & 62 & 63 & 64 & 65 & 66 & 66 & 67 & 67 & 69 & 69 & 71 & 77 & 78 & 79 & 79 \end{array}$$

a. Determine the median number of calls.

b. Determine the first and third quartiles.

c. Determine the first decile and the ninth decile.

d. Determine the 33rd percentile.

In a study of the gasoline mileage of model year 2011 automobiles, the mean miles per gallon was 27.5 and the median was 26.8. The smallest value in the study was 12.70 miles per gallon, and the largest was 50.20. The first and third quartiles were 17.95 and 35.45 miles per gallon, respectively. Develop a box plot and comment on the distribution. Is it a symmetric distribution?

Compute the mean of the following sample values: 5, 9, 4, 10