University District Columbia Quantitative Methods Public Administration Discussion

Answer both questions below.Equal Credit.Show all work or indicate how you arrived at the answers.

Question 1

1 The Bureau of Finance has always been a relaxed place to work.Employees are allowed 60 minutes for a lunch break and are not required to sign or punch in or out.Recently the head of the Bureau has come to suspect employees are taking advantage of the comfortable atmosphere by disappearing for more than 60 minutes at lunch.He decides to check his suspicions by monitoring for a week the number of minutes spent at lunch by each employee in a typical department of the Bureau.He considers a lunch break of up to 65 minutes acceptable, longer than that unacceptable.Below are the data collected.Should the head of the Bureau be concerned about the time taken at lunch by employees?Present the data in a relative frequency distribution to support your answer (you will be graded on whether you make a compelling reasonable case for your answer)

Question 2

• Construct a frequency distribution for this data.Let the first class be ten units wide, i.e. From 50 – 59, and draw a histogram using these intervals.
• Construct a cumulative frequency distribution.
• Construct a relative frequency distribution.