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UECM1693/UECM2623/UCCM2623 Tutorial S1: Basics Statistics

This document contains sample problems and solutions for a basic statistics tutorial covering topics like frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, percentiles, histograms, and comparing distributions. Some key points: - Problem 1 involves creating a frequency distribution from sample survey data and calculating percentages. 30% of the sample belongs to category B and 70% to categories A or C. - Problem 2 involves creating a frequency table and histogram from test score data and using the cumulative ogive to estimate the number of failing scores and cutoff for an A grade. - Problem 3 calculates mean, median, range, and percentile for investment data by country and finds the median is more appropriate. - Problem 4 plots a histogram and calculates mean and

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UECM1693/UECM2623/UCCM2623 Tutorial S1: Basics Statistics

This document contains sample problems and solutions for a basic statistics tutorial covering topics like frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, percentiles, histograms, and comparing distributions. Some key points: - Problem 1 involves creating a frequency distribution from sample survey data and calculating percentages. 30% of the sample belongs to category B and 70% to categories A or C. - Problem 2 involves creating a frequency table and histogram from test score data and using the cumulative ogive to estimate the number of failing scores and cutoff for an A grade. - Problem 3 calculates mean, median, range, and percentile for investment data by country and finds the median is more appropriate. - Problem 4 plots a histogram and calculates mean and

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UECM1693/UECM2623/UCCM2623 Tutorial S1: Basics Statistics

1. The following data gives results of a sample survey. The letters A, B, C represents the three
categories.
A
C

B
B

B
C

A
C

C
A

B
A

C
B

C
C

C
C

A
B

C
C

B
B

C
C

C
B

C
A

(a) Prepare a frequency distribution table.


(b) Calculate the relative frequencies and percentages for all categories.
(c) What percentage of the elements in this sample belongs to category B?
(d) What percentage of the elements in this sample belongs to category A or C?
(e) Draw a bar graph for the frequency distribution.
Answer: (a) 6, 9, 15 (b) 0.2, 0.3, 0.5 (c) 30% (d) 70%
2. The following table gives the scores of fifty students on a statistics test.
73
75
58
43
49

65
67
75
51
97

82
65
89
59
55

70
60
70
38
60

45
75
73
65
76

50
87
55
71
75

70
83
61
75
69

54
40
78
85
35

32
72
89
65
45

75
64
93
85
63

(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)

Construct a frequency table.


Draw a histogram and frequency polygon of the distribution.
Convert the distribution obtained in (b) into a cumulative less than distribution.
Draw an ogive of the distribution.
Estimate from the ogive,
(i) the total number of student will fail the test, if the passing score is 40.
(ii) the cut-point for grade A, if only 10% of the students will score A.
Answer: 4, 85
3. The value of investments, by country, held by a fund at the end of October 1997 were as follows.
Country
Argentina
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

Market value (millions of dollar)


123
87
174
97
59
1215
68
1710
15613

(a) Find the mean and median of the list of nine values.
(b) Indicate whether the mean or median is more appropriate for this list.
(c) Find the range and interquartile range of the data.
(d) Find the value of the 68th percentile.
Answer: (a) 2127.33, 123 (c) 15554, 1385 (d) 174
4. The accompany frequency distribution summarizes a sample human body temperatures.
Temperature
96.5 - 96.8
96.9 - 97.2
97.3 - 97.6
97.7 - 98.0
98.1 - 98.4
98.5 - 98.8
98.9 - 99.2
99.3 - 99.6

Frequency
1
8
14
22
19
32
6
4

(a) Plot a histogram. From the graph, comment on the symmetry of the distribution of the
human body temperatures.
(b) Find the mean of the data.
(c) Find the standard deviation and variance of the data.
Answer: (b) 98.17 (c) 0.3862, 0.621
5. The Everlast and Endurance brands of car battery are both labeled as lasting 48 months. In
reality, they both have a mean life of 50 months, but Everlast batteries have a standard deviation
of 2 months, while Endurance batteries have a standard deviation of 6 months. Which brand is
the better choice? Why?

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