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Chapter 10

Exercise 1.
# Label columns ‘X’, ‘Y’ and ‘Z’.
RANDOM 500 ‘X’;
BINOMIAL 4 0.6.
RANDOM 500 ‘Y’;
BINOMIAL 4 0.4.
LET ‘Z’ = ‘X’ + ‘Y’
DESCRIBE ‘X’ ‘Y’ ‘Z’;
MEAN;
VARIANCE.
#Open new worksheet. Label columns ‘X’ ‘Y1’ ‘Y2’ ‘Y’ ‘Z’
RANDOM 500 ‘X’;
BINOMIAL 4 0.6.
CODE (0 1 2) 1 (3 4) 0 ‘X’ ‘Y1’
RANDOM 500 ‘Y2’;
BINOMIAL 3 0.4.
LET ‘Y’ = ‘Y1’ + ‘Y2’
LET ‘Z’ = ‘X’ + ‘Y’

Exercise 2.
# Label columns ‘Toss’, ‘Factor’, ‘Score’ and ‘Gain’.
RANDOM 500 ‘Toss’;
BERNOULLI 0.5.
CODE (1) 2 (0) –1 ‘Toss’ ‘Factor’
RANDOM 500 ‘Score’;
INTEGER 1 6.
LET ‘Gain’ = ‘Factor’ * ‘Score’
# Draw histograms and find descriptive statistics. Label new column ‘Fortune’.
PARSUMS ‘Gain’ ‘Fortune’
TSPLOT ‘Fortune’

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