Assignment -1

1. Construct a frequency distribution of the data given below, where class interval is 4 and the mid-
value of one of the classes is zero.

-8 -7 10 12 6 4 3 0 7
-4 -3 -2 2 3 4 7 5 6
10 12 9 13 11 -10 -7 1 0
5 3 2 6 10 -6 -4

2. The distribution of ages of 500 readers of a nationally distributed magazine is given below:

Age( in Years) Number of Readers

Below 14 20
15-19 125
20-24 25
25-29 35
30-34 80
35-39 140
40-44 30
45 and above 45

Find the relative and cumulative frequency distributions for this distribution.

3. A company wants to pay bonus to members of the staff. The bonus is to be paid as under:

Monthly salary ( in rs) Bonus

3000-4000 1000
4000-5000 1200
5000-6000 1400
6000-7000 1600
7000-8000 1800
8000-9000 2200
9000-10000 2200
10000-11000 2400

Actual amount of salary drawn by the employees is given below:

3250 3780 4200 4550 6200 6600

6800 7250 3680 8320 9420 9520
8000 10020 10280 11000 6100 6250
7630 3820 5400 4630 5780 7230
6900
How much would the company need to pay by way of bonus? What shall be the average bonus paid per
member of the staff?

4. The following table gives salary per month of 450 employees in a factory:

Salary No. of Employees

Less than 5000 80

5000-10000 120
10000-15000 100
15000-20000 60
20000-25000 50
25000-30000 40

The total income of 6 persons in the group 25000-30000 is Rs. 1, 65,000. Due to a rise in prices, the
factory owner decided to give adhoc increase of 25 percent of the average pay to the 25 percent of the
lowest paid employees, 10 percent of the average pay to the 10 percent highest paid employees and 15
percent to the remaining employees.
Find out the additional amount required for the adhoc increase and after the increase, find out the
average pay of an employee in the factory.

5. The following are the profit figures earned by 50 companies in the country

Profit Number of Companies

10 or less 4
20 or less 10
30 or less 30
40 or less 40
50 or less 47
60 or less 50

Calculate
(a) Median, and
(b) Range of profit earned by the middle 80 per cent of the companies.

6. The distribution of the insurance money paid by an automobile insurance company to owners of
automobiles in a particular year is given below:

Amount paid (in rs) Frequency

Below 1500 52
1500-1999 108
2000-2499 230
2500-2999 528
3000-3499 663
3500-3999 816
4000-4499 993
4500-4999 825
5000 and above 650
Calculate the median amount of money paid.

7. Pandey does statistical analysis for an automobile racing team. The data on fuel consumption( in km
per litre) for the team’s cars in recent races are as follows:

14.77 16.11 16.11 15.05 15.99 14.91

15.27 16.01 15.75 14.89 16.05 15.22
16.02 15.24 16.11 15.02

(a) Calculate the mean and median fuel consumption

(b) Group the data into five equally-sized classes. What is the fuel consumption value of the modal
class?
(c) Which of the three measures of central tendency is best to use? Explain.
(d) Estimate the standard deviation

8. A charitable organization decides to give old-age pension to people over sixty years of age. The
scales of pension were fixed as follows:

Age group Pension/ month(rs)

60-65 200
65-70 250
70-75 300
75-80 350
80-85 400

The age of 25 persons who secured the pension are as given below:

74 62 84 72 61 83 72 81 64
71 63 61 60 67 74 64 79 73
75 76 69 68 78 66 67

Calculate the monthly average pension payable per person and the standard deviation.