Measures of Location and Spread

Practice Questions
1.

The cost of Bed and Breakfast at 10 different hotels is given.

39.50 55
60
50
49
42
95
59
39.50 45
a.
Find the mean, median and mode of these prices.
b.
Which of these gives the most sensible average? Explain your answer.
c.
Find the range. Does this give a good representation of the data?
Explain your answer.

2.

The temperature is recorded at midnight every day over a period during

winter. The results are as follows:
Frequency
Temperature (C)
-2
19
-1
14
0
8
1
4
2
0
3
1
a.
Find the mean, median and mode for these temperatures.
b.
Find the standard deviation for this data.
c.
The following month the temperatures give a mean of 1.2 C and a
standard deviation of 0.9. Explain how the temperatures differ in the
two periods.
d.
Find the range and interquartile range for the first set of data.

3.

The annual gross wages of employees at a factory were:

Wage () 0800010 00012 000- 14 000Frequency
1
15
34
58
a.
Draw a cumulative frequency graph for this data.
b.
Find the median and interquartile range.
c.
Find the 80th percentile.

4.

27

16 00018 000
3

In a study of erosion a sample of pebbles were collected from a beach and

weighed. The results are shown below.
Mass, m, (grams)
Frequency
40 m < 50
16
50 m < 60
30
60 m < 65
46
65 m < 70
58
70 m < 80
43
80 m < 100
7
a.
Find the mean and standard deviation of the mass.
b.
It is thought that recent severe weather may have removed most of the
smaller pebbles. How would this change the mean and standard
deviation.

5.

The graph below shows the distance travelled to work.

Find
a.
b.
c.

The 90 percentile
The interquartile range
Another group of workers had an interquartile range of 5 km. How do
their journeys compare with those in the first group.