THE NATIONAL TEACHERS COLLEGE

Quiapo, Manila
Division of Graduate Studies and Research
Master of Arts in Education
GED 102 – INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

PERFORMANCE TASK NO. 3

1. MEASURES OF VARIABILITY (UNGROUPED DATA)

Mr. Santos, a teacher at a very small private school, assigns statistics practice problems
to be worked via the net. All Grade 7 students must use a password to access the problems and
the time of log-in and log-off are automatically recorded for the teacher. At the end of the
week, the teacher examines the amount of time each student spent working the assigned
problems. The data is provided below in minutes.

15, 28, 25, 48, 22, 43, 49, 34, 22, 33, 27, 25, 22, 20, 39

Find the range, inter-quartile range, variance & standard deviation of the recorded data
above.

2. Find the area of the region under the curve that corresponds between the given z-values.
Then for each item, SKETCH the standard normal curve and SHADE IN the area you are
being asked to find.
a. z = 0.63 c. z = 2.08
b. z = 1.32 d. z = 1.70

3. Given μ = 110 and σ = 10 in a college entrance examination, find the corresponding z-value
of the scores gained by the following students. Show all your solutions and sketch its graph.
a. x = 98 d. x = 74
b. x = 65 e. x = 135
c. x = 120