Statistics
MATH-1410-6A (Spring 2013)
Project 1 – Monthly Milk Production (Part 2)
Due: 3-23-2013
12 points
Now that Mr. Bennett has his random sample, he records the monthly milk production, in pounds, of
each member of the sample. The results are given on page 121 of the text.
i.
Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak or the PHStat2 Add-In program to make a histogram for the data
using a class width of 500. Use the class midpoints along the horizontal axis and be sure to
include a label for the horizontal axis and a title in your output.
ii.
Use the PHStat2 Add-In program or any program/applet you can find online to create a Boxand-Whisker Plot for the data and then calculate the Five-Number Summary. You might
consider using the Box-and-Whisker Plot generator located at the following website:
http://math.andyou.com/tools/boxandwhisker.html.
iii.
Use Excel’s Analysis ToolPak to calculate all summary statistics.
Copy and paste your results to a Word document and either e-mail me the document as an
attachment to cjhaugen@mccneb.edu or hand in a hard copy by the above due date. A copy of what
I would like from you is shown below.