Missy Walters Owns a Mail-Order Business Specializing in Clothing, Linens

question 31

Essay

Missy Walters owns a mail-order business specializing in clothing, linens, and furniture for children. She is considering offering her customers a discount on shipping charges for furniture based on the dollar-amount of the furniture order. Before Missy decides the discount policy, she needs a better understanding of the dollar-amount distribution of the furniture orders she receives.
Missy had an assistant randomly select 50 recent orders that included furniture. The assistant recorded the value, to the nearest dollar, of the furniture portion of each order. The data collected is listed below.

a. Prepare a frequency distribution, relative frequency distribution, and percent frequency distribution for the data set using a class width of $50.
b. Construct a histogram showing the percent frequency distribution of the furniture-order values in the sample.
c. Develop a cumulative frequency distribution and a cumulative percent frequency distribution for this data.

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Definitions:

Relative Area

A term that describes the proportion or percentage of a specific area with respect to a larger reference area, often used in analytical techniques.

Multiplicity

In NMR spectroscopy, multiplicity indicates the number of nearby nonequivalent hydrogen atoms influencing a given hydrogen atom's resonance, revealing its splitting pattern.

Relative Ratio

A term used to describe the proportional relationship between quantities or concentrations of substances.

Peak

A term often used in spectroscopy and chromatography to describe the highest point in a graph representing the presence or concentration of a substance.