Group Assignment-I

1. A person purchased the following quantities of cement (kg) with rates shown at 4 stores:
Store Quantity purchased (kg) Rate of purchase (kg/birr)

A 15 20

B 20 16

C 25 12

D 40 10

Determine the average amount of cement the person purchased for one birr?

1. a) Determine the missing frequencies of the following distribution given that the median is
33.5 and the mode is 34.0.
Class limits frequency

1-9 4
1-10
10-19 16
20-29 f3
30-39 f4

40-49 f5

50-59 6
60-69 4
Total 230

A. Compute the arithmetic mean?

B. Compute the value below which 25% of the observations lie?
C. Compute the value above which 25% of the observations lie?
2. Arithmetic mean of 50 observations was 100. At the time of calculations two observations
180 and 90 were omitted. Find the corrected mean?
3. The following are the logarithm transformed of the monthly salaries of employees in a
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Dilla branch.

Log 1 1.23 1.4624 1.977 2 2 2.243 2.3979 2.875

xi
Where, Xi – is the monthly salaries of the employees in commercial Bank, Dilla branch.
I) Calculate the geometric mean of the monthly salaries for employees in a
Commercial Bank, Dilla branch?
4. Show that the sum of squared deviations of the sets of items from their mean is the
minimum?

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n n

 ( Xi  X ) 2   ( X i  A) 2 , A  X
i.e. i 1 i 1

5. The yields of barley (in kg) per 14 plots: 30, 32, 35, 38, 40, 42, 48, 49, 52, 55, 58, 60, 62 &
65 kg.
I) Find the First and third quartiles?
II) Compute the value below which 20%, 30%, 15% of the observations lie?
6. The first quartile for the following data is 21.5.

Class 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50 Total
frequency 24 f1 90 122 f5 56 20 33 460

I) Find the missing frequencies

II) Find the modal value

7. Complete the following frequency distribution?

Class frequency
limit
11-20 12
21-30 30
31-40 f3
41-50 65 If the median value is 46, find
51-60 f5
I) The missing frequencies?
61-70 25
71-80 18 II) Calculate the mean and second quartiles and interpret?
Total 229 III) Comment on the value of median and second quartiles?

8. Arithmetic mean of 50 observations was 100. At the time of calculations two observations
180 and 90 were wrongly taken as 100 and 10. Find the corrected mean?
9. The marks scored out of 100 by a group of students in a school are given below.

marks Below 10 Below Below Below Below Below Below

20 30 40 50 60 70
No. of 15 35 60 84 106 120 125
students

I) Determine the median and modal marks?

II) Find the marks below which 65 % of total students scored?