c



The chief of police has given the department statistician the task of determining whether air
temperature is related to the number of traffic accidents in the city each day. On each of 8
randomly selected days the statistician records the maximum temperature and the number of
accidents took place in the city. The results are:

Maximum Temperature (CÛ) 14 23 16 22 30 34 19 27

No. of traffic accidents 4 6 3 6 8 11 5 7

Find the correlation coefficient. Test the hypothesis that air temperature is related to the number
of accidents.

c


Checkout operators to be employed by a super market chain are given a one week training
period, and then given speed and accuracy test. Separate scores are recorded for the two aspects.
For ten randomly chosen operators, the results were as follows (recorded on scale of 0 to 100)

Speed score (X) 81 90 62 80 43 76 58 82 90 36

Accuracy Score(Y) 27 38 37 60 65 52 82 47 58 18

a)? ÿraw a scatter diagram and decide which correlation test should be employed on this
data.
b)? Calculate the value of correlation coefficient and interpret
c)? Test the value of r for significance

c

The expenditure on child care facilities in the previous year by a random sample of 6 local
council, and the number of children under age 5living in the electorates are shown below:

Council 1 2 3 4 5 6

Expenditures (000Rs.) 125 180 154 90 102 63

Number of Children 1723 2510 1856 1525 1624 920

(a)? ÿraw a scatter diagram of the data

a)? Find the least square regression line of expenditures on number of children
b)? Interpret the four tables of results
c)? ÿraw the line on the scatter diagram. Comment on whether you feel the line is good fit of
the data.
d)? Using the estimated line, predict the expenditures of a local council that has 1250
children under the age of 5.

c

Consider the following data for the variables X and Y.

X 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Y 1 4 9 16 25 49 64 81 93

a)? Dlot the data on a scatter diagram.

b)? Find the least square regression line on Y and X.
c)? ÿraw the line on the diagram.
d)? Interpret the results
e)? Use the line found in (b) to predict the value of y for an X value of 6. Can you make
the better Drediction without using this line? Why or Why not?