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Quantitative Methods
Data Sets for discussion
1. Travel & Living conducts an annual survey of subscribers in order to determine the best places to stay. The following table shows a sample of 9 European hotels from one of their surveys. The overall score includes subscriber’s evaluation of each hotel’s rooms, service, restaurants, location/atmosphere and public areas (a high score indicates high level of satisfaction). The price of the room varies from $ (lowest) to $$$$ (highest).
Name of Property Graveteye Manor Villa d'Este Hotel Prem Hotel d'Europe Palace Luzern Royal Crescent Hotel Hotel Sacher Duc de Bourgogne Villa Gallici
Country England Italy Germany France Switzerland England Austria Belgium France
Room Rate $$ $$$$ $ $$ $$ $$$ $$$ $ $$
Number of Rooms 18 166 54 47 326 45 120 10 22
Overall Score 83.6 86.3 77.8 76.8 80.9 73.7 85.5 76.9 90.6
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2. All‐in‐one sound systems, called mini‐systems, typically include an AM/FM tuner, a dual cassette tape deck, and a CD changer in a book sized box with two separate speakers. The data in the following table shows the retail price, sound quality, CD capacity, FM tuning selectivity and sensitivity, and the number of tape decks for a sample of 10 mini‐systems.
Brand & Model Aiwa NSX-AJ800 JVC FS-SD1000 JVC MX-G50 Panasonic SCPM11 RCA RS 1283 Sharp CD-BA2600 Sony CHC-CL1 Sony MHC-NX1 Yamaha GX-505 Yamaha MCRE100
Price ($) 250 500 200 170 170 150 300 500 400 500
Sound Quality Good Good Very Good Fair Good Good Very Good Good Very Good Very Good
CD FM Capacity Tuning 3 Fair Very 1 Good 3 5 3 3 3 5 3 1 Excellent Very Good Poor Good Very Good Excellent Excellent Excellent
Tape Decks 2 0 2 1 0 2 1 2 1 0
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3. The following data shows the percentage of music sales by the genre of the music over a period of 5 years.
Type Rock Country R&B Pop Rap Gospel Classical Jazz Other
1996 32.6 12.1...