CL 3 Set 1

1.
(A)
Exercise 6-4 No 6-59
6-75. Reconsider the energy consumption data in Exercise
6-37. Construct a box plot of the data and write an interpretation
Of the plot. How does the box plot compare in interpretive
Value to the original stem-and-leaf diagram?
6-37. the net energy consumption (in billions of kilowatt-hours)
For countries in Asia in 2003 was as follows (source:
U.S. Department of Energy Web site, www.eia.doe.gov/emeu). Construct a stem-and-leaf
diagram for these data and comment on any important features that you notice.
Compute the sample Mean, sample standard deviation, and sample median.
Billions of Kilowatt-Hours
Afghanistan
1.04
Australia
200.66
Bangladesh
16.20
Burma
6.88
China
1671.23
Hong Kong
38.43
India
519.04
Indonesia
101.80
Japan
946.27
Korea, North
17.43
Korea, South
303.33
Laos
3.30
Malaysia
73.63
Mongolia
2.91
Nepal
2.30
New Zealand
37.03
Pakistan
71.54
Philippines
44.48
Singapore
30.89
Sri Lanka
6.80
Taiwan
154.34
Thailand
107.34
Vietnam
36.92
Total
4393.8
2.
(A)
Exercise 6-5 No 6-70 (Construct and interpret a time series plot only)
6-86. in their book Introduction to Time Series Analysis and
Forecasting (Wiley, 2008), Montgomery, Jennings, and Kolahci
Presented the data in Table 6E.2, which are the monthly total passenger
Airline miles flown in the United Kingdom from 1964 to
1970 (in millions of miles). Comment on any features of the data
That are apparent. Construct and interpret either a digidot plot or a
Separate stem-and-leaf and time series plot of these data.

3.
(a)
Exercise 7-2 No 7-3
7-3. PVC pipe is manufactured with a mean diameter of 2.565 and a standard deviation
of 0.008cm. Find the probability that a random sample of n = 9 sections of pipe will have
a sample Mean diameter greater than 2.560cm and less than 2.570cm.
(b)
Exercise 7-2 No 7-5
7-5. a synthetic fiber used in manufacturing carpet has tensile strength that is normally
distributed with mean 520KN/m2 and standard deviation 25KN/m2. Find the probability
that a random sample of n = 6 fiber specimens will have sample mean tensile strength
that exceeds 525KN/m2.

4.

(a)
Exercise 8-1 No 8-21.
8-21.An article in the Journal of Agricultural Science [The Use of Residual
Maximum Likelihood to Model Grain Quality Characteristics of Wheat with Variety,
Climatic and Nitrogen Fertilizer Effects (1997, Vol. 128, pp. 135142)]
investigated means of wheat grain crude protein content (CP) and Hagberg
falling number (HFN) surveyed in the United Kingdom. The analysis used a
variety of nitrogen fertilizer applications (kg N/ha), temperature (C), and total
monthly rainfall (mm). The following data below describe temperatures for wheat
grown at Harper Adams Agricultural College between 1982 and 1993. The
temperatures measured in June were obtained as follows:
15.2 14.2 14.0 12.2 14.4 12.5
14.3 14.2 13.5 11.8 15.2
Assume that the standard deviation is known to be = 0.5.
(a) Construct a 99% two-sided confidence interval on the mean temperature.
(b) Construct a 95% lower-confidence bound on the mean temperature.

(c) Suppose that you wanted to be 95% confident that the error in estimating the
mean temperature is less than 2 degrees Celsius. What sample size should be
used?
(d) Suppose that you wanted the total width of the two-sided confidence interval
on mean temperature to be 1.5 degrees Celsius at 95% confidence. What sample
size should be used?

5.

(A)
Supplemental Exercise No 8-86 (a,b,c,d,e)
8-98.An article in the Journal of Sports Science (1987, Vol. 5, pp. 261271)
presents the results of an investigation of the hemoglobin level of Canadian
Olympic ice hockey players. The data reported are as follows (in g/dl):

(a) Given the following probability plot of the data, what is a logical assumption
about the underlying distribution of the data?
(b) Explain why this check of the distribution underlying the sample data is
important if you want to construct a confidence interval on the mean.
(c) Based on this sample data, a 95% confidence interval for the mean is (15.04,
15.62). Is it reasonable to infer that the true mean could be 14.5? Explain your
answer.

(d) Explain why this check of the distribution underlying the sample data is
important if we want to construct a confidence interval on the variance.
(e) Based on these sample data, a 95% confidence interval for the variance is (0.22,
0.82). Is it reasonable to infer that the true variance could be 0.35? Explain your
answer.