CHRIST (DEEMED TO BE UNIVERSITY), BANGALORE

DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES

BUSINESS MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
WORKSHEEET– 8

1) Calculate the median of the following data:

More than 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Cumulativ 115 103 88 68 43 23 13 3

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frequency
2) Calculate the median of the following data:

CI < 10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 > 50

f 30 50 18 13 29 40
3) In a factory employing 3,000 persons, in a day 5 per cent work less than 3 hours, 580
work from 3.01 to 4.50 hours, 30 per cent work from 4.51 to 6.00, 500 work from
6.01 to 7.50 hours, 20 per cent work from 7.51 to 9.00 and the rest work 9.01 or more
hours. What is the median hours of work?
4) 10 per cent of the workers in a firm employing a total of 1000 workers earn between
Rs. 5 and 9.99, 30 per cent between Rs. 10 and Rs. 14.99, 250 workers between Rs.
15 and Rs. 19.99 and the rest between Rs. 20 and Rs. 24.99. What is the median
wage? Compute it by the actual calculation and also locate it graphically.
5) Eight coins were tossed together and the number of heads resulting was noted. The
operation was repeated 256 times and the frequencies that were obtained foor
different values of x, the number of heads are shown in the following table. Calculate
median, quartiles, 4th decile, 6th decile, 27th percentile and 59th percentile.

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

f 1 9 26 59 72 52 29 7 1

6) Calculate quartiles, 3rd decile, 7th decile, 30th percentile and 67th percentile for the
following data:

C.I 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50
F 40 60 200 100 70