1.

Write down the median length

2. Find the percentage of flower stems that are 60 cm or greater.

The same data is presented in the following frequency table.

Length(x cm) 0 ≤ 𝑋 ≤ 30 30 ≤ 𝑋 ≤ 60 60 ≤ 𝑋 ≤ 90 90 ≤ 𝑋 ≤ 120

Frequency 10 p 20 q
3. Find the value of p & q
4. Use the values from the frequency table above to estimate the mean and standard
deviation of the lengths.
A flower with a stem length of 60 cm or greater is considered as a mature flower.
5. Given that a randomly selected flower is mature, find the probability that its stem length
is 90 cm or greater
Answer:
1. 80/2 = 40 , F(40) = 50cm
2. 80 × 𝑋 = 55, 𝑋 = 0. 6875, 1 − 𝑋 = 0. 3125//
The frequency of 60 cm is 55, so the percentage of people who are 60cm is 0.6875. But
that is everyone 60 cm and less so we do 1 - 0.6875 = 0.3125 which is the percentage of
people who are 60𝑐𝑚 ≤ 𝑋
3. 10+p = 55, p = 45 | 10+45+20+q = 80 , q = 5
The maximum length of p is 60, the frequency of 60 is 55. So in frequency 10 + p it should be
55 since we know that p goes up to 60cm.
We do the same for q.
4. 𝑥 = 52. 5 , σ = 22. 5
Use GDC
5. P(𝑋 ≥ 90𝑐𝑚 | 𝑋 ≥ 60𝑐𝑚)
P(𝑋 ≥ 90𝑐𝑚) = 1 - 75/80 = 0.0625
𝑃(𝑋 ≥ 90𝑐𝑚 ∩ 𝑋 ≥ 60𝑐𝑚)
= 𝑃(𝑋 ≥ 60𝑐𝑚)
0.0625
= 0.3125
= 0.2 or 20%
The question is asking what is the probability of getting a flower 90cm or longer in the mature
flowers. So we use probability of 90cm given that it is a mature flower first. The equation is the
intersection of both over probability of 60cm. The reason why the intersection probability is
the same as the probability of 90cm is because 90cm is a proper subset of mature flowers.
Which means all 90cm flowers are mature ones but not the other way round. Then we simply
plug in the numbers and we get the answer.