How much time do Americans living in or near cities spend waiting in traffic, and how much does waiting in traffic cost them per year? The data set given includes this cost for 31 cities. For the time Americans living in or near cities spend waiting in traffic and the cost of waiting in traffic per year:
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 a boxplot. Are the data skewed? If so, how?
d. Compute the correlation coefficient between the time spent sitting in traffic and the cost of sitting in traffic.
e. Based on the results of (a) through (c), what conclusions might you reach concerning the time spent waiting in traffic and the cost of waiting in traffic.
| City | Annual Time Sitting in Traffic (hours) | Cost of Sitting in Traffic ($) |
| Boston | 47 | 980 |
| New York | 54 | 1126 |
| Philadelphia | 42 | 864 |
| Washington | 74 | 495 |
| Miami | 38 | 785 |
| Detroit | 33 | 687 |
| Cleveland | 20 | 383 |
| Minneapolis | 45 | 916 |
| Milwaukee | 27 | 541 |
| Chicago | 71 | 1568 |
| St. Louis | 30 | 642 |
| Nashville | 35 | 722 |
| Memphis | 23 | 477 |
| Atlanta | 43 | 824 |
| New Orleans | 35 | 746 |
| Omaha | 21 | 389 |
| Wichita | 20 | 379 |
| Dallas | 45 | 924 |
| Houston | 57 | 1171 |
| Denver | 49 | 993 |
| Albuquerque | 25 | 525 |
| Phoenix | 35 | 821 |
| Salt Lake City | 27 | 512 |
| Las Vegas | 28 | 512 |
| Boise | 19 | 345 |
| Seattle | 44 | 942 |
| Portland | 37 | 744 |
| San Francisco | 50 | 1019 |
| San Jose | 37 | 721 |
| Los Angeles | 64 | 1334 |
| San Diego | 38 | 794 |
In: Statistics and Probability
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In: Computer Science
Archer Company is a wholesaler of custom-built air-conditioning units for commercial buildings. It gathered the following monthly data relating to units shipped and total shipping expense:
|
Month |
Units Shipped |
Total Shipping Expense |
||
|
January |
30 |
$ |
1,800 |
|
|
February |
60 |
$ |
2,300 |
|
|
March |
40 |
$ |
1,700 |
|
|
April |
50 |
$ |
2,000 |
|
|
May |
70 |
$ |
2,300 |
|
|
June |
80 |
$ |
2,700 |
|
|
July |
20 |
$ |
1,200 |
|
Required: Using the high-low method, calculate the equation of a cost line for the shipping expense for this company (Y = a + bX)
In: Accounting
Exercise #
1. Analyze an actual project recently built in your area. Identify the major activities that occurred in each of the project phases and who accomplished them. Develop a flowchart or network diagram and present it to your class.
2. Class members should each examine a different local project and determine the following: • Project cost per square foot • Economic Life • Design-construction time • Income in dollars per square foot • Compare the viability of different project types at different interest rates.
In: Civil Engineering
What are some key things to consider when preparing to conduct a topographic survey?
With the understanding that a higher resolution of data is going to generally cost more money, what is one suggestion you have to reduce the amount of time required to perform your proposed survey?
How many data points are necessary to provide an acceptable topographic survey? How might this vary based on the phase of the project (e.g., preliminary planning, construction drawings, final as-built drawings)?
What is one possible use of a topographic survey?
In: Civil Engineering
The 4M company has a work center with a single turret lathe. Jobs arrive at this work center according to a Poisson process at a mean rate of 2 jobs per day, The lathe processing time has an exponential distribution with a mean of 0.25 day per job.
a) On average, how many jobs are waiting.in the work center?
b) On average, how long will a job stay in the center?
c).Since each job takes a big space, the waiting jobs are currently waiting in the warehouse. The production manager is proposing to add a storage space near the lathe. If an arriving job will have at least 90% chance waiting near the lathe, how big should be the storage space near the lathe?
In: Math
In a park there is a population of 750 mice that are either brown or white in color. Of this population, in which brown is dominant to white, approximately 305 individuals are white. Assuming that the population is at equilibrium for this gene/locus, answer the following.
(a) Calculate the allele frequencies and genotype frequencies. Show
your work below using proper symbols (p,2pq, etc.). Perform all
calculations to three decimal places. (Note: you will not be scored
on part A, but you need to do the work in part A first to help you
with the bonus.)
BONUS: After the previous predictions were made, actual samples
were obtained from all individuals in the population described
above. Genetic analyses were done, and it was found that of those
that were brown, 80 are BB and 365 are Bb. Is the population above
at equilibrium? Use the chi-square test to determine this. a. (Make
sure to show your work.) b. State whether the population is at
equilibrium and (c) explain your answer. (4)
In: Biology
A park ranger thanks that there is a relationship between the number of bugs in a forest and the total number of forest fires that aria of the forest experiences. The ranger takes a count of the number of bugs they catch in several traps over the course of the season and the number of fires that they experienced in those areas.
|
Number of Bugs caught (Rounded to the nearest thousand) |
Number of fires that season |
|
1 |
10 |
|
2 |
9 |
|
0 |
3 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
0 |
1 |
|
3 |
3 |
|
3 |
2 |
|
1 |
2 |
In: Statistics and Probability
Consider that you have a water park and a slide with no friction in it . Park visitors slide a vertical distance hh down the waterslide in a sitting position. When they come to the bottom of the slide, they grab a handle at the bottom end of a 5.00-m-long uniform pole. The pole hangs vertically, initially at rest. The upper end of the pole is pivoted about a stationary, frictionless axle. The pole with a person hanging on the end swings up through an angle of 70.0∘∘, and then the person lets go of the pole and drops into a pool of water. Treat the person as a point mass. The pole's moment of inertia is given by I=1/3 ML^2 , where L = 6.00 m is the length of the pole and M = 40.0 kg is its mass.
For a person of mass 70.0 kg, what must be the height hh in order for the pole to have a maximum angle of swing of 60.0∘ after the collision?
In: Physics
Luke and Sarah lived in a house in Albury where they both had permanent jobs. In July 2012 they purchased a rural block of 30 acres for $160,000 with the intention of building a house and moving out of town. In September 2012 they listed their house in Albury for sale at $570,000, however given a downturn in the market the house remained unsold until March 2014 when they finally accepted an offer of $460,000. Settlement took place in April 2014 and they commenced construction on the new house in May 2014. Whilst the house was being built Luke and Sarah rented the Albury house back from the new owners at an amount of $480 per week.
In November 2014 the new house was completed at a cost of $410,000 and Luke and Sarah moved in. Additional costs incurred by them included construction of a road for $15,000, sinking a dam at a cost of $30,000 and connection of electricity at a cost of $40,000. They financed the new property with a home loan of $450,000 payable over 30 years at a rate of 4.20%.
Luke and Sarah began a horse agistment business in January 2015 to which they allocated 20 acres of their property. They constructed fencing to create smaller paddocks, built shade shelters and installed water troughs at a total cost of $80,000. To fund the cost of the improvements they took out a small business loan for $80,000 payable over 10 years at a rate of 5.30%.
In October 2019, Luke was offered a promotion in his job which required them to re-locate to Queensland. They listed the rural property for sale and in December 2019 it sold for an amount of $850,000 with settlement occurring in January 2020 at which time Luke and Sarah moved to Queensland.
Required
Advise Luke and Sarah of the taxation consequences of selling the rural property including whether any taxation exemptions or concessions may apply. You do not need to calculate the amount of any resulting capital gain or loss .
In: Accounting