Semester Test 1B: MEMORANDUM

QTS105D/OMT105D

TOTAL MARKS:52 FULL MARKS:50

Surname: …………………………………………… Initials: …………..

Student number: …………………………………… Date: .……………2021

EXAMINER: Ms T Maunye MODERATOR: Mr RT Gaston

Please indicate your Lecturer’s name with a clear cross:

T BP KH MK SP S RT
Maunye Mdakane Mnisi Mampana Masibigiri Mkhabela Gaston

Please indicate your ITS group:

Instructions
 Answer all questions.
 Round the answers to 2 decimal places, and all probabilities questions to 4
decimal places
 Do not use a pencil on answers.
 Do not use a tipp-ex on answers.
 Only non-programmable calculators are allowed.

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Question 1 (4)
For the following questions, mark your answer by circling the correct option.

1.1 Which of the following is not a probability sampling method? (1)

a) Stratified random sampling.
b) Simple random sampling.
c) Systematic sampling.
d) Quota sampling.
e) None of the above.

1.2 Classify the data type of the statement. “The type of food ordered by customers
in a restaurant”. (1)
a) Qualitative and discrete.
b) Quantitative and nominal.
c) Qualitative and nominal.
d) Quantitative and continuous.
e) None of the above.

1.3 Given a population size of 100 and a sample size of 20, what is the value of
sampling interval? (1)
a) 100
b) 20
c) 5
d) 0.2
e) None of the above.

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1.4 How many numbers of class intervals will a frequency distribution table have
for 12 observations? (1)
a) 5
b) 6
c) 4.56
d) 5.46
e) None of the above.

Question 2 (18)
Given below are the number of accidents that occurred in South Africa monthly in
2020.
99 85 74 165 158 141 167 140 175 138 138 135

2.1 Calculate the following:

2.1.1 Arithmetic mean. (2)

2.1.2 Mode. (1)

2.1.2 Variance. (3)

2.1.3 Coefficient of variation. (3)

2.1.4 Median. (2)

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2.2 Construct a frequency distribution table. (7)

Question 3 (5)
A market research company conducted a survey amongst grocery shoppers to identify
their demographic profile and shopping patterns. A random sample of 186 grocery
shoppers in various malls in Gauteng were asked to choose the grocery store and a
mall they most prefer to shop at. The data was recorded weekly as follows:
Preferred Number of shoppers
store Bloed mall Sunnypark Menlyn mall
mall
Checkers 4 25 41
Spar 6 15 35
Shoprite 11 30 19

Draw a bar graph representing the various malls on the x-axis.

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Question 4 (7)
The Mercedes Company has conducted a competition to give away cars to 25 lucky
candidates who recently received their driver’s license. The Licensing Department has
submitted a list of 25 460 candidates who recently received their driver’s license.

4.1 Use the random number table below to select the first four lucky candidates
using the simple random sampling method. Start from row 2, column 39 and
read the random numbers from the below from right to left. (4)

67 37 66 97 98 54 02 23 80 96 13 08 28 48 01 72 26 07 95 83

76 19 85 46 46 64 30 58 62 75 25 68 54 64 28 49 66 52 70 54

97 76 37 48 83 03 63 59 55 25 54 22 44 39 35 84 73 51 68 77

55 24 37 37 35 96 54 05 26 00 71 29 03 85 34 15 79 77 49 03

4.2 Use systematic sampling to select the other three lucky winners given that the
first lucky winner is 165. (3)

165

Question 5 (18)
The table below shows the number of fishes a fisherman has captured monthly.

Months Number of Cumulative no Class Mid-

fishes of fishes point values
[1; 2) 7 7 1.5
[2; 3) 9 16 2.5
[3; 4) 10 26 3.5
[4; 5) 18 44 4.5
[5; 6) 11 55 5.5
n = 55

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5.1 Use the table above to determine the following:
5.1.1 Number of class intervals. (1)

5.1.2 Class width. (1)

5.2 Determine the following using appropriate formulae:

5.2.1 The lower quartile. (4)

5.2.2 The 87th Percentile. (4)

5.2.3 The mean. (2)

5.2.4 The mode using the class mid-point values. (1)

5.3 Draw a frequency polygon showing the number of fishes captured monthly.
(5)

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Formula Sheet
Descriptive Statistics
n

1. c  1  3,3(log n) 2. x i
x i1
n

3. x
fxi i
4. Median  li 
(ui  li )( n2  Fi-1 )
f i
fi

x
1
  x   fx 
2
  fx
2
 x
2
 x 
2 2 1
5. 6. 
n n
 
2 2
s s
n 1  n  1 n 1

s (uQ1  lQ1 )( 14 n  FQ1 -1 )

7. CV  100 8. Q1  lQ1 
x fQ1

(uQ3  lQ3 )( 34 n  FQ3 -1 ) (uP  lP )( 100

p
n  FP-1 )
9. Q3  lQ3  10. Pp  l p 
fQ3 fP

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