Descriptive Statistics

(1) Facebook is a popular social networking website in which users can sign up to be ‘friends’
of other users. Imagine we looked at the number of friends that a selection (actually, some
of my friends) of 11 Facebook users had. Number of friends: 108, 103, 252, 121, 93, 57, 40,
53, 22, 116, 98.
Find:
a) Mean,
b) Median,
c) Mode,
d) Variance,
e) Standard deviation,
f) Coefficient of variation.

(2) A financial department of the ABC company obtained hours worked in September.

Worked Number of
hours employees

185 3
186 2
187 5
188 3
189 4
190 4

a) Compute the mean number of worked hours,

b) Find the mode and the median,
c) Assess the dispersions of worked hours among employees.

(3) A random sample of 5 weeks showed that a cruise agency received the following number
of weekly specials from Piombino to Elba (Italy):
20, 73, 75, 80, 82

a) Compute the mean, median, and the mode,

b) Which measure of central tendency best describes the data?
 (4) The time (in seconds) that a random sample of employees took to complete a task is as
follows:
23, 35, 14, 37, 28, 45, 12, 40, 27, 13, 26, 25

a) Find the mean and the median,

b) Find the standard deviation and variance
c) Find the coefficient of variation,
d) Find the five-number summary.

(5) A random sample of 50 personal property insurance policies showed the following
number of claims over the past two years.
Number of claims 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Number of policies 21 13 5 4 2 3 2

a) Find the mean number of claims,

b) Find the sample variance and standard deviation.

(6) Test scores from statistics

students ID test scores
1 7,5
2 23,5
3 2,5
4 18
5 15
6 14
7 28,5
8 19
9 5
10 27,5
11 11
12 22
13 15
14 20
15 11
16 26
17 25,5
18 26,5
19 20,5
20 21,5
21 18
22 26,5
23 34