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Faculty of Economics and Business Academic year 2014-2015
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Exam: MRM1: Management Research Methods 1 (6012S0044, 6012S0046)
Date and time of the exam: 24 October 2014, 17:00-20:00 h.
Duration of the exam: 180 minutes
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This exam consists of 7 questions and 20 items on 10 pages (front page included).
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, Q1
A credit card company wants to know how much a particular group of cardholders charges within a
year. The following observations (in €) are obtained for a sample of 25 customers.
Q1b) (3 points)
Would you rather use the mean or the median to describe the center of the distribution. Explain.
Median.
The distribution has extreme values on the right side of the distribution. and the mean is
sensitive to such values. while the median is not. Therefore. the median gives a better
indication of the charge by a typical card holder. 3p only for good explanation
Q1c) (3 points)
What information about the distribution do you get from the length of the box?
The length of the box is the inter quartile range. 1p
It shows the range of the middle 50% of the observations. 2p
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