1. Information about 73 Businesses, Size of business, cost effectiveness.

Answer the following questions using the measures of central tendency and variability:

a)Summarize the cost effectiveness (COST) and total assets (SIZE) of all the firms.

b)Interpret the existence or lack of a symmetry in the distributions of COST and SIZE of all the companies.

Cost (N=73):9.13 18.33 14.00 4.32 18.00 0.93 0.40 5.71 12.61 5.82 3.15 13.57 4.31 29.12 11.92 4.07 9.00 0.65 65.00 13.96 3.70 2.97 0.76 8.51 3.75 0.36 4.11 17.53 4.34 7.90 15.97 0.94 7.83 4.33 8.18 0.28 8.85 1.22 28.86 3.89 19.38 13.33 21.72 9.31 97.55 2.16 2.06 15.00 6.12 6.08 6.29 5.09 0.20 79.30 22.22 2.55 5.25 4.07 11.29 1.25 12.45 12.71 5.29 3.29 2.15 10.00 2.79 3.51 15.00 8.49 4.58 6.94 5.35

Size (N=73): 398 600 802 532 1000 1404 3157 350 167 517 538 139 704 286 54 517 200 600 80 487 353 172 2247 440 320 2095 449 150 323 501 771 350 301 301 110 1915 390 4013 350 181 160 301 181 310 1105 779 896 339 387 200 843 110 2885 19 181 2483 398 270 210 501 402 120 198 1404 818 350 1296 941 181 532 482 329 230