Faculty of Sciences – Mathematics Department

Introduction to Statistics
Homework – Deadline: Week 6

Student Name: Group Number:

ID Number: Sequence Number:

Question 1: The following data give the total number of Laptop sold by a mail order company on each of
25 days.

8 11 15 22 10 5 17 21 22 13 16 18 12 9 20 16 23 14 19 23 20 16 16 21 14
a. Complete a frequency distribution table for these data (see the table below ) and draw a pie chart for this
distribution.
b. Construct an ogive for this frequency distribution.

Laptop Sold Frequency Class Boundaries Relative Frequency Percentage Class Width
5-10
11-16
17-22
23-28
P
f=

Question 2: The following data give the prices (in thousands of dollars) of nine houses selected from all
houses sold last month in a city:

312 257 421 289 526 421 497 512 550

Find the mean, the median, the range, and the mode.

Question 3: The following data give the numbers of pieces of junk mail received by 7 families during the
past month.:
41 33 29 19 14 31 39
Find the variance, and standard deviation.
Hint: the sample variance is
x)2
P
x2 − (
P
2 n
S =
n−1
Question 4:
a. Define statistics. What are the branches of statistics.
b. Explain the difference between qualitative variables and quantitative variables. Provide examples of these.
c. Explain the difference between discrete and continuous variables. Provide examples of these.

Question 5: The table below gives the frequency distribution of the daily commuting times (in minutes) from home
to work for all 18 employees of a company.

Daily Commuting Time Number of Employees (Frequency)

0 to less than 10 4
10 to less than 20 3
20 to less than 30 5
30 to less than 40 6

Calculate the mean of the daily commuting P

times.
mf
Hint: Mean for population data: is µ = N
, where m is the midpoint and f is the frequency of a class.

Question 6: Choose the correct letter (20 Marks)

The following ungrouped data belongs to a sample [ 3 8 5 4 6 2 5 3 7 6 9 ]

1. The range is:
A. 11 B. 6 C. 8 D. 7
2. The variance is:
A. 4.818 B. 7.15 C. 7.07 D. 4.03
3. The standard deviation is:
A. 2.659 B. 3.15 C. 2.195 D. 4

Given the following data [6 11 8 3 4 12 9 18 12 14 16]

4. The first quartile (Q1) is equal to:
A. 7 B. 4 C. 6 D. 3
5. The third quartile (Q3) is equal to:
A. 7 B. 14 C. 15 D. 17
6. The interquartile range (IQR) is equal to:
A. 8 B. 11 C. 15 D. 7

Given the following data [12 15 3 8 7 6 20 17 4 13 11 16 12 13]

7. The position of 29th percentile is equal to:
A. 4.06 B. 5.5 C. 3 D. 7.5
8. The percentile rank of 6 is equal to:
A. 15.38% B. 50% C. 40% D. 14.28%

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