For Exercises 16.1 and 16.2, see page 16-5; for 16.3 and 16.4, see page 16-6; for 16.5 and 16.6, see page 16-8; for 16.7, see page 16-11; for 16.8, see page 16-12.

Question 16.1

16.1 Numbers of rooms in top spas.

A report of a readers’ poll in Condé Nast Traveler magazine ranked 100 top resort spas.1 Let Group A be the 25 top-ranked spas, and let Group B be the spas ranked 26 to 50. A simple random sample of size 5 was taken from each group, and the number of rooms in each selected spa was recorded. Here are the data.

Group A 106 145 312 60 49
Group B 190 500 1293 161 225

Rank all the observations together and make a list of the ranks for Group A and Group B.

16.1

Group A ranks are 1, 2, 3, 4, 8. Group B ranks are 5, 6, 7, 9, 10.

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