Sally Bird of Big Rapids Realty Has Received Data on 60

question 79

Essay

Sally Bird of Big Rapids Realty has received data on 60 houses that were recently sold in Mecosta County in Michigan. The data are recorded in the table shown below. Included in this data set are observations for each of the following variables:
· The appraised value of each house (in thousands of dollars)
· The selling price of each house (in thousands of dollars)
· The size of each house (in hundreds of square feet)
· The number of bedrooms in each house
-(A) Suppose that Sally wishes to examine a representative subset of these 60 houses that has been stratified by the number of bedrooms. Use Excel to assist her by finding such a stratified sample of size 10 with proportional sample sizes.
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(B) Explain how Sally could apply cluster sampling in selecting a sample of size 15 from this frame.
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(C) What are the advantages and disadvantages of employing cluster sampling in this case?

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Definitions:

Income Summary

A temporary account used in closing process to summarize the results of a period's revenues and expenses.

Adjusting Entry

Journal entries made in accounting records at the end of an accounting period to allocate income and expenditures to the period in which they actually occurred.

Closing Entry

An accounting action that transfers the balances from temporary accounts to permanent ones at the end of an accounting period.

Owner's Equity

The residual interest in the assets of an enterprise after deducting its liabilities; represents the owner's claims against the company's assets.