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MDM4U Exam Review Name: ____________ Chapter 2: Statistics of One Variable 1. A waiter recorded his tips from his 50 customers one day. He recorded them as grouped data as shown in the table at the right. Border values are included into the upper interval. a) Calculate the mean, median and mode of his tips. b) Which measure best describes these data? c) How do outliers affect the measures? d) Calculate the population standard deviation. e) Calculate the inter-quartile range. f) For the entire staff, mean = $8.19, median = $7.00, mode = $5.00, Tip Range Frequency 0–2 4 2–4 5 4–6 20 6–8 4 8–10 0 10–12 8 12–14 2 14–16 5 16–18 0 18-20 2 standard deviation = $4.213, IQ range = $6 How do this waiter’s measures compare with those from the entire staff? g) What is the z-score of a tip of $15? What does that z-score mean? h) What might explain the peaks in the intervals 4–6, 10–12, and 14–16? 2. Describe the type of sample used in each scenario. a) a telephone survey of numbers randomly selected from a store’s database. b) A student council asks students to comment on an issue by placing their comments in a comment box. c) A proportionate number of people from 10 age groups are randomly selected from the population of a city. d) A pollster randomly selects three streets from 10 randomly selected towns in Ontario and interviews a resident of the street. 3. Identify the bias in each survey scenario. Suggest how to eliminate the bias. a) A teacher asks the boys in the grade 9 health class to raise their hands for how many dates each student has had as the teacher calls out the numbers. b) A magazine asks readers to respond to a poll about their favourite actor of the Academy Awards nominees, immediately following an article about one of the actors. c) A pollster asks pedestrians on a downtown sidewalk if they are in favour of a new park in the suburbs. 4. The table at the right gives the distribution of the number of hours p