Statistics for Managerial Decisions Assignment

Statistics For
Managerial Decisions
Assignment 2
[Pick the date]
Student Name

Question 1
ASX Companies
1. Crown Resorts Limited
2. Tabcorp Holdings Limited
(a) The quarterly opening values for the ASX companies
 For the above values, the stem and leaf pot
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(b) The combined graph as relative frequency histogram for CWN and frequency polygon for
TAH
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Relative frequency histogram and Frequency
Polygon
Opening Quarterly Price)
Relative frequency
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(c) The name of five ASX listed companies and their respective market capitalization for the
year 2016 is shown below:
Village Roadshow
Tatts Group
Star Entertainment Group
Aristocrat Leisure
Tasracing
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Bar Chart : Market Capitalization 2016
Market Capitalization(Billion Australian Dollars)
Company NAME
(d) As per the data available from the Australia,, Crown Resorts seems to be a hold or buy
but definitely not a sell.
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Source: http://markets.theaustralian.com.au/shares/CWN/crown-resorts-limited
However, on account of the takeover planned by the company over the Tatts group, TAH have
been upgrades and hence most of the big brokerage houses are bullish on this counter
Source: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/tabcorp-market-valuation-boosted-
by-tatts-takeover-approval/news-story/26e07dac51dd9e46dd2c5625c9b6bc95
My views are also aligned in favour to investing in TAH on account of the merger gains.
However, one needs to be cautious on the reaping of synergies so that profitability can swell and
share price can appreciate.
Question 2
Given set of data
(a) Computation of mean, first quartile and third quartile and mean (Hillier, 2006)
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