COURSE TITLE: LEARNING,

COURSE CODE: EDC124

NOTE THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY:

(a) This assignment/term paper shall constitute 20% of your final results, answer all questions.

(b) The assignment/term paper should be submitted on 13TH April, 2024.

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QUESTION ONE.

a. Explain why it is impossible to have a triangle whose three sides are 6cm, 8cm, and
15cm.
b. Find the number of degrees in each angle of an equiangular triangle.
c. Sketch and define the following:
i. Scalene triangle
ii. Isosceles scalene triangle
iii. Isosceles obtuse triangle
iv. Isosceles right triangle
v. Obtuse right triangle
vi. Equilateral acute triangle
d. State whether the following statement is true or false?
i.If a polygon is a trapezoid, it is a quadrilateral.
ii.If a polygon is a rectangle, it is a parallelogram
iii.If a polygon is a rhombus, it is a parallelogram
iv.If a polygon is a parallelogram, it is a square.
v.If a polygon is a rhombus, it is a square.
vi.If two angles are opposite angles of a parallelogram, they are congruence
e. Complete the table
Regular polyhedron Faces Vertices Edges
Cube
Tetrahedron
Octahedron
Icosahedron

QUESTION TWO(2)

a. Construct a parallelogram ABCD with │AB│= 12cm, and │BC│= 10cm and angle
ABC=105°, and BAD =75°.
b. The sides of a right-angled triangle are (x-1) cm, (x+3) cm and (x+7) cm. Find the value
of x.
c. A ladder leans against a wall. The end of the ladder touches the wall 12m from the
ground. The foot of the ladder is 9m away from the foot of the wall. Find
i. The length of the ladder
ii. The angle that the ladder makes with the ground.
d. A triangle XYZ has vertices X (5,5), Y (6,2) and Z (4,8). Find whether triangle XYZ is an
equilateral triangle.

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QUESTION THREE (3)

a. A chord PQ of a circle of radius 5cm subtends an angle of 70⁰ at the center, O. find
correct to 3 significant figures
i. The length of the chord PQ
ii. The length of the arc PQ
iii. The area of the sector POQ
iv. The area of the minor segment cut off by PQ
b. A water tank with one end open has diameter 140mm and height 50mm. calculate
i. Area of the base
ii. Curved surface area
iii. Total surface area
iv. Volume of the tank.
c. Identify each of the following data sets as either a population or a sample:
i.The grade point averages (GPAs) of all students in a University.
ii.The GPAs of a randomly selected group of students on North Campus of UEW, Winneba
iii.The ages of the nine Supreme Court Justices of Ghana in 1999.
iv.The gender of every second customer who enters a movie theatre.
v.The lengths of Keta boat undertaking fishing trip in the sea.

QUESTION FOUR (4)

a. The number of touchdown (TD) passes thrown by each of the 31 teams in the National
Football League in the 2010 season was shown below: 37, 33, 33, 32, 29, 28, 28, 23, 22, 22, 22,
21, 21, 21, 20, 20, 19, 19, 18, 18, 18, 18, 16, 15, 14, 14, 14, 12, 12, 9, 6. Calculate the mean
number of touchdown passes thrown.
b. The following table gives the marks of 58 students in Statistics. Calculate the average
mark of this group.

Marks Number of students

0-10 4
10-20 8
20-30 11
30-40 15
40-50 12
50-60 6
60-70 2
c. Mention 5 advantages and 5 Limitations of geometric mean.

QUESTION FIVE (5)

a. Design three data sets on your own that have 5 numbers in each set so that:
i. the same mean but different standard deviations.
ii. the same mean but different medians.
iii. the same median but different means.
b. What percentile is the value 3.33?
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c. Find the first, second, third and fourth moments about zero for the set of numbers 2,3,4,5
and 6.
d. Find the variance of the population data 20, 15, 19, 24, 16, 14.
e. A student has scored 68 marks in Statistics for which the average marks were 60 and the
standard deviation was 10. In the paper on Mathematics, she scored 74 marks for which
the average marks were 68 and the standard deviation was 15. In which paper, Statistics
or Mathematics, was she relative standing higher?

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