2.7 An article (K.

Delaney, How Search Engine Rules Cause Sites to Go Missing, The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2007, pp. B1, B4) discussed the amount of Internet search results that Web surfers typically scan before selecting one. The following table represents the results for a sample of 2,369 people: Amount of Internet Search Results Scanned A few search results First page of search results First two pages First three pages More than first three pages

Percentage (%) 23 23 39 39 19 19 9 9 10

a. Construct a bar chart and a pie chart.

More than first three pages First three pages 9 First two pages 19 First page of search results 39 A few search results 23 0 10 20 30 40 50

Series4 Series3 Series2 Series1

A few search results 23 First page of search results 39 First two pages 19 First three pages 9 More than first three pages

b. Which graphical method do you think is best to portray these data? According to what is happening to me the best method is the bar chart. c. What conclusions can you reach concerning how people scan Internet search results?

That more than 50% search few results and the first page of search.

2.21 As player salaries have increased, the cost of attending baseball games has increased dramatically. The data in the file represent the cost of four tickets, two beers, four soft drinks, four hot dogs, two game programs, two baseball caps, and the parking fee for one car for each of the 30 major league teams 2007. The following is a histogram created for these data.
Team Cost($)

Baltimore Boston Chicago White Sox Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Los Angeles Angels Minnesota New York Yankees Oakland Seattle Tampa Bay Texas Toronto Arizona Atlanta Chicago Cubs Cincinnati Colorado Florida Houston Los Angeles Dodgers Milwaukee New York Mets Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis San Diego San Francisco Washington

166 321 215 192 190 151 140 166 260 207 191 137 148 230 165 157 252 167 160 164 215 229 142 251 200 146 217 202 184 196

What conclusions can you reach concerning the cost of attending a baseball game at different ballparks? It shows that the more expensive ballpark to visit is Boston with 321 dollars. In the other hand the cheapest is Tampa Bay with 137 dollars. There is a difference of 184 dollars between these two.

An average of price is 192.033333 dollars. According to all these information it shows that going to a baseball game is more like taking a vacation. Has become too expensive. The baseball players really are making a lot of money to charge these prices.

2.23 One operation of a mill is to cut pieces of steel into parts that will later be used as the frame for front seats in an automobile. The steel is cut with a diamond saw and requires the resulting parts to be within 0.005 inch of the length specified by the automobile company. The data in the file comes from a sample of 100 steel parts. The measurement reported is the difference in inches between the actual length of the steel part, as measured by a laser measurement device, and the specified length of the steel part. For example, the first value, 0.002, represents a steel part that is 0.002 inch shorter than the specified length. a. Construct a percentage histogram. b. Is the steel mill doing a good job in meeting the requirements set by the automobile company? Explain. According with the data and my histogram the mill is doing a good job in meeting the requirements by keeping it within the limits set by the mills.
Error

-0.002 0.0005 0.0025 0.001 0.002 0.001 0.005 -0.002 0 0.001 -0.0025 -0.003 0.001 -0.0005 0 -0.003 -0.001 0.0005 0.0025 -0.0025 0.002 0.001 0.001 0.001 -0.002 -0.003 -0.0015 -0.0005

0.006 0.005 0.004 0.003 0.002 0.001 0 -0.001 -0.002 -0.003 -0.004 1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36 41 46 51 56 61 66 71 76 81 86 91

0 -0.0025 -0.003 -0.001 0.002 -0.001 0 0.003 0.0015 0 0 -0.0025 0.0005 0.001 0.0005 0.001 0.0025 0.001 0 -0.0025 -0.001 0.0035 0 -0.003 -0.002 -0.001 -0.0015 -0.0015 -0.002 0.001 -0.0025 -0.0005 -0.0015 -0.0005 -0.0015 -0.0005 -0.0005 -0.001 -0.0015 0.0025 0.001 0.0005 0 -0.002 -0.0005 0.0005 0.0005

0 -0.0005 0.002 0.001 -0.0015 -0.001 -0.001 0.0005 -0.0025 0.0025 0.002 0.0025 -0.002 0 -0.0005 -0.001 0 -0.002 0 0 0.002 -0.003 -0.0005 -0.002 -0.002

Series1 86 91 96