NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY

Center of Excellence in higher Education

The first private university in Bangladesh
School of Business
Department of Management
Course BUS172: Introduction to Statistics, Semester: Summer 2017
Assignment
Submission date: 21 June 2017 Marks: 10, Section: 17

Q1. The following table shows the ages of competitors in a charity tennis event in London:

Age Frequency
15-24 6
25-34 8
35-44 13
45-54 9
55+ 7
Total 40

(a) Construct the

(i) relative frequency
(ii) percentage
(iii) cumulative frequency and
(iv) cumulative relative frequency distribution
(v) cumulative percentage distribution

(b) What percentage of competitors were

(i) under age 35?
(ii) 45 or older?
(c) Construct the frequency histogram from the above data, and make comments on the
shape of the distribution.
(d) Construct an Ogive for the cumulative relative frequency distribution from the above
data.

Q2. Consider the following data of a sample of size 30:

15 28 39 38 40 35 12 60 50 42
22 67 37 88 77 66 55 44 33 75
65 79 89 43 41 53 63 93 23 45

(a) Construct a stem-and-leaf plot and make you comment on the shape of the
distribution.
(b) Obtain the following for the above ungrouped data:
(i) Mean
(ii) Median
(iii) Mode
(iv) Variance and
(v) Standard deviation

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(c) Obtain the following five number summary statistics for the above ungrouped
data:
(i) Minimum,
(ii) 1st quartile,
(iii) Median,
(iv) 3rd quartile and
(v) Maximum.

(d) Using the results in (c) draw a box-and-whisker plot.

(e) Construct a table with frequency, relative frequency and percentage.

(f) Obtain Mean and Standard Deviation using the frequency table in (e).

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