1.

The data contains the total fat, in grams per serving, for a sample
of 20 chicken sandwiches from fast-food chains.
The data are as follows:

7 8 4 5 16 20 20 24 19 30 23 30 25 19 29 29 30 30
40 56
Source: Extracted from Fast Food: Adding Health to the Menu, Consumer Reports, September 2004, pp.
28 31.

a. List the five-number summary.

b. Construct a box-and-whisker plot and describe the shape

2. A bank branch located in a commercial district of a city has

developed an improved process for serving customers during the
noon-to-1:00 p.m. lunch period. The waiting time, in minutes
(defined as the time the customer enters the line to when he or she
reaches the teller window), of a sample of 15 customers during
this hour is recorded over a period of one week. The results are
listed below:
4.21 5.55 3.02 5.13 4.77 2.34 3.54 3.20 4.50 6.10 0.38 5.12 6.46
6.19 3.79
Another branch, located in a residential area, is also concerned
with the noon-to-1 p.m. lunch hour. The waiting time, in minutes
(defined as the time the customer enters the line to when he or she
reaches the teller window), of a sample of 15 customers during
this hour is recorded over a period of one week. The results are
listed below:
9.66 5.90 8.02 5.79 8.73 3.82 8.01 8.35 10.49 6.68 5.64 4.08 6.17
9.91 5.47
a. List the five-number summaries of the waiting times at the two
bank branches.
b. Construct box-and-whisker plots and describe the shape of the
distribution of each for the two bank branches.
 c. What similarities and differences are there in the distributions
of the waiting time at the two bank branches?

3. A population of 12-ounce cans of cola is known to have a mean

fill-weight of 12.06 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.02.
The population is known to be bell shaped. Describe the
distribution of fill-weights. Is it very likely that a can will
contain less than 12 ounces of cola?

4. a population of 12-ounce cans of cola is known to have a mean

fill-weight of 12.06 ounces and a standard deviation of 0.02.
However, the shape of the population is unknown, and you
cannot assume that it is bell shaped. Is it very likely that a can
will contain less than 12 ounces of cola?

5. Consider a population of 1,024 mutual funds that primarily

invested in large companies. the mean return achieved by all
the funds, is 8.20 and that the standard deviation, is 2.75.
According to the Chebyshev rule, at least 93.75% of these
funds are expected to have one-year total returns between what
two amounts?

6. Problems with a telephone line that prevent a customer from

receiving or making calls are disconcerting to both the
customer and the telephone company. The data represent
samples of 20 problems reported to two different offices of a
telephone company and the time to clear these problems, in
minutes, from the customers lines:
Central Office I Time to Clear Problems (minutes)
1.48 1.75 0.78 2.85 0.52 1.60 4.15 3.97 1.48 3.10 1.02 0.53 0.93 1.60
0.80 1.05 6.32 3.93 5.45 0.97

Central Office II Time to Clear Problems (minutes)

7.55 3.75 0.10 1.10 0.60 0.52 3.30 2.10 0.58 4.02 3.75 0.65 1.92 0.60
1.53 4.23 0.08 1.48 1.65 0.72
For each of the two central office locations:
a. Compute the mean, median, first quartile, and third quartile.
b. Compute the range, interquartile range, variance, standard deviation,
and coefficient of variation.
c. Construct side-by-side box-and-whisker plots. Are the data skewed?
If so, how?