Statistics and Data Analysis I – IDC – Fall 2017

Avner Halevy

HW 1

1. The following table describes the distribution of the level of education of people older than 25
in the USA in the year 1970. “Level of education” is measured by the number of years one has
attended school. End point conventions: a class includes its left end point, but not its right one.

Level of education frequency

(school years) (%)
0-5 6
5-8 10
8–9 13
9 – 12 19
12 – 13 31
13 – 16 11
16 – 17 10

a. Draw a histogram describing the data.

b. Find the percent of people who have 7 years of education or less.

2. The following histogram describes the weekly salary of students employed in waiting tables
(in New Israel Sheckels). No one earns more than 1,000 NIS. The rectangle above the 200-500
NIS is missing, what should be its density (height)?
3. The distribution of salaries in a certain population is summarized in the following table:

Salary (in thousands of $) f (%)

0–1 25%
1 – 2.5 40%
2.5 – 4.0 20%
4.0 – 8.0 15%

a. Draw a histogram for the salary distribution.

b. Find the proportion of people who earn more than $3 thousand.
c. Find the proportion of people whose salary is between $1.5 and 3 thousand.

4. The distribution of employee seniority in a certain factory is given in the following table:

Seniority (years) f (number of f (%)

employees)
0-2 20%
2–5 30%
5 – 10 40
10 - 20 25%
Total: 100%

a. Complete the above table.

b. Draw a histogram for the seniority distribution.
c. Find the number of employees whose seniority is below 6 years.
d. Find the proportion of employees whose seniority is above 16 years.