A magazine provided overall customer satisfaction scores forAT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon cell-phone services inmajor metropolitan areas throughout the United States. The ratingfor each service reflects the overall customer satisfactionconsidering a variety of factors such as cost, connectivityproblems, dropped calls, static interference, and customer support.A satisfaction scale from 0 to 100 was used with 0 indicatingcompletely dissatisfied and 100 indicating completely satisfied.The ratings for the four cell-phone services in 20 metropolitanareas are contained in the Excel Online file below. Construct aspreadsheet to answer the following questions.
City | AT&T | Sprint | T-Mobile | Verizon |
Atlanta | 69 | 68 | 74 | 80 |
Boston | 68 | 66 | 77 | 77 |
Chicago | 70 | 67 | 73 | 78 |
Dallas | 74 | 67 | 77 | 79 |
Denver | 70 | 69 | 76 | 78 |
Detroit | 72 | 67 | 80 | 80 |
Jacksonville | 72 | 66 | 78 | 82 |
Las Vegas | 71 | 70 | 77 | 82 |
Los Angeles | 65 | 67 | 71 | 79 |
Miami | 67 | 71 | 76 | 81 |
Minneapolis | 67 | 68 | 78 | 78 |
Philadelphia | 71 | 68 | 74 | 79 |
Phoenix | 67 | 68 | 79 | 82 |
San Antonio | 74 | 67 | 78 | 81 |
San Diego | 68 | 70 | 75 | 80 |
San Francisco | 65 | 71 | 76 | 76 |
Seattle | 67 | 69 | 77 | 78 |
St. Louis | 73 | 68 | 77 | 80 |
Tampa | 72 | 65 | 76 | 80 |
Washington | 71 | 70 | 74 | 77 |
a. Consider T-Mobile first. What is the medianrating (to 1 decimal)?
b. Develop a five-number summary for theT-Mobile service.
Smallest value | |
First quartile (to 2 decimals) | |
Median (to 1 decimal) | |
Third quartile (to 2 decimals) | |
Largest value | |
c. Are there outliers for T-Mobile?
_________Yes, the data contain outliersNo, the data do notcontain outliers
d. Repeat parts (b) and(c) for the other three cell-phone services.
| AT&T | Sprint | Verizon |
Smallest value | | | |
First quartile (to 2 decimals) | | | |
Median (to 1 decimal) | | | |
Third quartile (to 2 decimals) | | | |
Largest value | | | |
Are there outliers for AT&T?
_________Yes, the data contain outliersNo, the data do notcontain outliers
Are there outliers for Sprint?
_________Yes, the data contain outliersNo, the data do notcontain outliers
Are there outliers for Verizon?
_________Yes, the data contain outliersNo, the data do notcontain outliers
e. Which of the following box plots accuratelydisplays the data set?
#1 | Rating | #2 | Rating |
#3 | Rating | #4 | Rating |
_________Box plot #1Box plot #2Box plot #3Box plot #4
Which service did the magazine recommend as being best in termsof overall customer satisfaction?
_________AT&TSprintT-MobileVerizon