PART I.
Textbook problems from Freedman, Pisani and Purves
Chapter 5:
(required)
Exercise Set B
#1,
Exercise Set C
#2,
Exercise Set D
#5,
Exercise Set E
#3,
Review Exercises
#3 and #6.
Chapter 5:
(optional practice for the midterm)
Exercise Set A
#1
Exercise Set B
#3, #4
Exercise Set C
#1
Exercise Set E #
1 and #2
Exercise Set F
#1
(you may
handwrite this part, pen or pencil, doesn't matter)
PART II. An
Essay question from Professor Lew.
(THIS PART MUST
BE TYPED)
Maximum Length:
One page, two if you are wordy (don't spend > hour on this OK?)
Spacing: Single
or Double space.
Guidance: This
one is easy, but required. If you do
the textbook problems above and fail to do this one, your homework assignment
grade is an automatic minus even if you got the other ones 100% correct. Be as
creative or dull as you want to be. Do
not get upset by the word "essay" instead,
pretend you are
writing an e-mail or chatting about what you have learned so far in Statistics
10.
Goal: To help
you understand statistical concepts by having you apply them.
The
Problem: Congratulations, you have
gotten a job as the negotiator for the bus drivers of a very small bus
company. The drivers are on strike and
would like a 20% raise. The strike has going on for so long that the government
has ordered a judge to make a decision based on your argument and the argument
of the lawyer for the company's owners.
The owners of the company are offering a 0% raise arguing that that the
average employee at the company earns $27 per hour and this is already higher
than the current national average hourly wage of $16 per hour. Here is a
breakdown of salaries at the small bus company (see the back):
|
Job Title |
Hourly Wage
in Dollars |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Jr. Bus Driver |
10 |
|
Sr. Bus Driver |
20 |
|
Sr. Bus Driver |
20 |
|
Sr. Bus Driver |
20 |
|
Sr. Bus Driver |
20 |
|
Sr. Bus Driver |
20 |
|
Jr. Supervisor
(does not drive buses) |
40 |
|
Sr. Supervisor
(does not drive buses) |
50 |
|
Company Lawyer |
75 |
|
The Owner's
Wife |
75 |
|
The Owner |
100 |
As their
negotiator, you need to present their argument to the judge on behalf of the
bus drivers. What statistics (e.g.
mean, median, minimum, maximum, etc. etc.) might you in your argument to the
judge for more money for the bus drivers?
Hint: There may
be unusual or extreme observations in this dataset. If you think this is the case, feel free recalculate your
statistics based on fewer observations or groups of observations. Will this help your argument for more money?
Final
Instructions and questions:
1. Pretend I am the judge. How would you convince me to give the
workers a raise? You must use the
numbers I have given you and calculate statistics that might help your
argument.
2. You should use the $27 and $14 per hour
figures given by the owners as a part of your argument. Is the $27 figure accurate? I will tell you that the $16 is the current
national average and it is correct as far as the U.S. government is concerned.
3. Is a 20% raise too much for the
drivers? To figure out what their new
wage would be I would multiply the existing wage by 1.2 so if you made $10 per
hour and got a 20% raise, you would now receive $12/hr.
WHEN YOU HAND
THIS IN, STAPLE PART I and PART II TOGETHER.
PUT YOUR TA'S NAME AND/OR SECTION (1A, 1B, 1C) ON IT TOO. IT IS DUE BEFORE THE END OF LECTURE ON
OCTOBER 20, 2000.