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| Instructions: |
| Week 3 Individual Assignment |
| Total Number of Questions - 12 |
| 1. You have twelve problems - one on each tab of this Excel file. |
| 2. Please show your work in the cells. Use Excel formulas instead of writing the values/answers directly in the cell. |
| The instructor will then know where you made a mistake and provide you valuable feedback and partial credit (if appropriate). |
| Fifty business students were given a project to complete. The bar graph below shows the number |
| of days it took the students to complete the assignment. |
| 1. How many students took 4 days to complete the assignment? |
| 2. How many students completed the project in 3 days or less? |
| 3. What percent of students completed the project in 3 days or less? |
| State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. |
| The bar graph below shows the Quarterly Dollar Volume of Batesville Tire Company. |
| Refer to the bar graph below and answer the questions. |
| 1. Which quarter had the highest dollar volume? |
| 2. What percent of the yearly sales were the sales for October–December? |
| State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. |
| 3. What was the percent of increase in sales from the ?rst to the second quarter? |
| State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. |
| The line chart below shows data for Automobile Gasoline Mileage Comparisons for | |
| full-size and compact cars. | |
| Refer to the chart and answer the questions. | |
| 1. What speed gave the highest gasoline mileage for both types of automobiles? | |
| 2. What speed gave the lowest gasoline mileage for both types of automobiles? | |
| 3. At what speed did the ?rst noticeable decrease in gasoline mileage occur? | |
| Which car showed this decrease? | Choose one |
| The line chart below shows Dale Crosby's Salary History. | ||
| Refer to this chart and answer the questions. | ||
| 1. Calculate the amount and percent of increase in Dale’s salary from 2014 to 2015. | ||
| Amount of increase | Percentage of increase | State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. |
| 2. What is the percent of increase in Dale’s salary from 2012 to 2013? | ||
| Percentage of increase | State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. | |
| 3. Calculate the amount and percent of increase in Dale’s salary from 2016 to 2017. | ||
| Amount of increase | Percentage of increase | State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. |
| 4. If the cost-of-living increase was 10% from 2011 to 2016, determine if Dale’s | ||
| salary for this period of time kept pace with in?ation. | ||
| Hint: For part 4, follow the steps below: | ||
| Step 1: Find the amount of salary increase from 2011 to 2016. | ||
| Step 2: Find the percentage increase from 2011 to 2016. | ||
| Step 3: If the percentage increase from Step 2 is greater than 10% cost-of-living increase, then | ||
| Dale's salary kept pace with inflation, otherwise no. | ||
| Step 1: Amount of salary increase from 2011 to 2016 | ||
| Step 2: Percentage increase from 2011 to 2016 | State the answer as a percentage with no decimal. | |
| Step 3: Did the salary keep pace with inflation? | (Choose one) |
| The pie chart below shows the family budget. Refer to the chart and answer the following questions. | |
| 1. What is the total take-home pay? | |
| 2. What percent of the total take-home pay is allocated for transportation? | |
| State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. | |
| 3. What percent of the take-home pay is allocated for food? | |
| State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. | |
| 4. What percent of take-home pay is spent for education? | |
| State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. | |
| 5. What percent of take-home pay is spent for education when education, | |
| savings, and miscellaneous funds are combined to be used for education? | |
| Total of education, savings, and miscellaneous funds | |
| Percentage of take-home pay spent on this combined total | State the answer as a percentage with one digit after decimal. |
| The bar chart shows the distribution of tax dollars. Refer to the chart and answer the following questions. |
| 1. What expenditure is expected to be the same next year as this year? |
| 2. What two expenditures are expected to increase next year? |
| 3. What two expenditures are expected to decrease next year? |
| 4. What expenditure was greatest both years? |
| The Canmark Research Center Airport Customer Satisfaction Survey uses an online questionnaire to provide airlines and airports with | |
| customer satisfaction ratings for all aspects of the customers’ flight experience (airportsurvey website, July 2012). After completing a | |
| flight, customers receive an e-mail asking them to go to the website and rate a variety of factors, including the reservation process, | |
| the check-in process, luggage policy, cleanliness of gate area, service by flight attendants, food/beverage selection, on-time arrival, | |
| and so on. A five-point scale, with Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, and Poor, is used to record customer ratings. Assume | |
| that passengers on a delta Airlines flight from Myrtle beach, South Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, provided the following ratings for the | |
| question, “Please rate the airline based on your overall experience with this flight.” The sample ratings are shown below. | |
| Rating | Credit: Anderson, D. R., Sweeney, D. J., Williams, T. A., Camm, J. D., & Cochran, J. J. (2017). Statistics for business & economics 13e. Boston: Cengage Learning. |
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| Excellent | 1. Use the pivot table feature in Microsoft Excel and create a frequency distribution with two columns - Rating and Frequency. |
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| Good | 2. Use Excel to create a bar chart (or a pivot bar chart) |
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| Excellent | 3. Use Excel to create a pie chart (or a pivot pie chart) |
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| The data below shows the total sales per day of the week by four salespersons. | |
| Use Microsoft Excel to construct a line chart (graph)showing total sales by the days | |
| of the week for Happy's Gift Shoppe. | |
| Sales | Which day of the week constituted highest sales? |
| Mon | $233.94 |
| Tue | $352.55 |
| Wed | $355.16 |
| Thu | $542.18 |
| Fri | $369.01 |
| Sat | $611.77 |
| Use Excel to find the mean, median, and mode of the scores given below. | |
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| 68 | Mean |
| 72 | |
| 83 | Median |
| 72 | |
| 95 | Mode |
| 88 | |
| 76 | |
| 72 | |
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| After your MBA, you are employed as a business analyst for a company that makes household products, | ||||
| which are sold by part-time salespersons who work during their spare time. The company has four | ||||
| salespersons employed. Let us denote these salespersons by A, B, C, and D. The sales records (in dollars) | ||||
| for the past 6 weeks for these four salespersons are shown in the table below. | ||||
| Week | A | B | C | D |
| 1 | 1774 | 2205 | 1330 | 1402 |
| 2 | 1808 | 1507 | 1295 | 1665 |
| 3 | 1890 | 2352 | 1502 | 1530 |
| 4 | 1932 | 1939 | 1104 | 1826 |
| 5 | 1855 | 2052 | 1189 | 1703 |
| 6 | 1726 | 1630 | 1441 | 1498 |
| Your supervisor has asked you to prepare a brief analysis comparing the sales volumes and the consistency | ||||
| of sales of these four salespersons. Use the mean sales for each salesperson to compare the sales volumes, | ||||
| and then choose an appropriate statistical measure to compare the consistency of sales. | ||||
| Week | A | B | C | D |
| 1 | 1774 | 2205 | 1330 | 1402 |
| 2 | 1808 | 1507 | 1295 | 1665 |
| 3 | 1890 | 2352 | 1502 | 1530 |
| 4 | 1932 | 1939 | 1104 | 1826 |
| 5 | 1855 | 2052 | 1189 | 1703 |
| 6 | 1726 | 1630 | 1441 | 1498 |
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| Case Adapted from Introductory Statistics, 8e, Mann |
| The data below shows personal income for Quarters 2014: II - 2015: III in millions of dollars, seasonally | ||
| adjusted at annual rate. | ||
| Quarter II, 2014 | $14,603,925 | After plotting the line graph, answer the following questions: |
| Quarter III, 2014 | $14,784,309 | |
| Quarter IV, 2014 | $14,925,215 | 1. Is the graph exhibiting an increasing, decreasing, or fluctuating trend? |
| Quarter I, 2015 | $15,056,970 | |
| Quarter II, 2015 | $15,254,088 | Choose one |
| Quarter III, 2015 | $15,449,647 | |
| 2. Which quarter showed the highest personal income? |
| Construct a pie chart (circle graph) showing the distribution of market share using the data below. | ||
| The data represents the percent dollar market of comics and magazine sales for September (Rounded | ||
| to the nearest whole percent). | ||
| Publisher | Market Share | After plotting the pie chart, answer the following questions. |
| Marvel Comics | 35% | |
| DC Comics | 32% | 1. What percent of market share is held by the largest three companies? |
| Image Comics | 5% | |
| Dark Horse Comics | 4% | 2. What was Image Comics' sales for September if the total market was $80,000,000? |
| Dreamweave Productions | 4% | |
| All others | 20% | 3. If the total market had $80,000,000 in comics and magazine sales for September, what were the sales for Marvel Comics? |
