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Tutorial Exercises 1
1.

Presenting and summarising data

Measures of central tendency and variation

The following data gives the distribution of seats in both houses of the Swedish
parliament in 1968.

Upper house
Lower house

Conservatives

Centre party

25
33

21
35

Liberals
25
43

Social
Democrats
79
113

Others
1
9

Display the data using (i) a pie chart (ii) a bar chart.
2.

The results of a statistics exam for a group of 28 students are:

45, 67, 82, 92, 35, 39, 55, 81, 66, 47, 59, 93, 85, 46, 32, 29,
73, 61, 57, 62, 42, 21, 46, 59, 70, 41, 58, 68
Construct a frequency table and illustrate the results using a suitable graphical method.
Comment on the distribution of scores.

3.

University library installs a new software package for students to search for books.
Staff in the library monitor the use of the new software for 30 days to assess whether or
not students find the package useful. The number of students using the package on each
of the 30 days was.
100, 87, 44, 53, 17, 34, 88, 67, 31, 40, 98, 77, 55, 41, 73, 62, 88, 28, 70, 51, 82, 44, 32,
50, 33, 49, 59, 67, 79, 84
Create a frequency table and construct a cumulative frequency graph.

4.

The purchase price of stereo systems in a large electrical store ranges from 150 to 850.
The number of models purchased within each price range is shown in the table:
Purchase price ()
150.00 - 249.99
250.00 349.99
350.00 449.99
450.00 549.99
550.00 649.99
650.00 749.99
750.00 850.00

Frequency
1
3
8
20
8
7
3
50

Display this data on a histogram and plot the frequency polygon. Calculate the mean and
standard deviation for the price of stereos sold.
5.

The monthly production in 2 factories in thousands of units is:

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A:
23
30
28
31
29
26
34
36
28
32
B:
53
65
70
50
62
58
52
63
69
72
Calculate the range, mean and standard deviation of production in each factory.
6.

25
64

26
54

In the run up to Christmas a high street retailer counted the number of customers served
by 25 staff on a cash desk during a 5 minute period.
No. of customers Frequency
6
3
7
4
8
4
9
5
10
6
11
2
12
1
Calculate the mean number of customers served and the standard deviation.

7.

The earnings of employees on the graduate training scheme in a national computer

company are dependent on skill, experience and time served. The number with earnings
in a particular range is shown in the table.
Salary ()
<10000
10000 - 12000
12000 - 14000
14000 - 16000
16000 - 18000

Frequency
3
5
8
6
3
25

Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the employees salaries.

8.

A company employing 60 people recorded the number of days sick leave taken in the last
year.
10
12
44
15
5
3

5
17
4
25
2
1

12
3
9
5
31
23

0
7
3
2
6
9

2
8
6
7
0
12

35
8
6
20
7
18

11
8
7
9
10
6

12
10
13
16
9
9

4
11
18
10
22
31

9
29
4
9
1
0

Group the data into intervals of five days. Calculate the mean number of days sick leave
and the standard deviation. Draw the cumulative frequency curve and calculate the range
and inter-quartile range.
9.

Clarke and Cooke book Exercises1.4, 2.10, 3.9 and 4.8.

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