Colegio Ntra.

Seora del Prado (Ciudad Real)

2 ESO Matemticas

UNIT 10
1) STATISTICAL DATA 1. Classify the following statistical data in categorical or numerical. a) Number of hairs in your head. b) Weight of a just born kid. c) Color of the apples in a shop. d) Age of the people in your class. d) Color of the hair of the people in your class.

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2. Indicate whether the following statistical data is discrete or continuous. a) Weight of water melons in a supermarket. b) Books read during a year by different kids. c) Goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo in the last ten seasons. 3. Place the following statistical data in the right column of the following table:
STATISTICAL DATA Categorical Discrete Numerical Continuous

a) Weight of a person. b) Number of heart beats per minute. c) Job. d) Eyes color. e) Number of people in a class. f) Number of employees of a company. g) Favorite sport. h) Distance from your home to school. i) Number of times you went to the movies last year. j) Favorite football team. 2) NORMAL DATA 1. These are the answers of 30 people to the question How many kids have you got? 1, 0, 4, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 5, 1, 0, 1, 4, 2, 2, 1, 5, 4, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 3, 1, 0 , 5, 6. a) Create a complete frequency table. b) Depict the data using a bar chart, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the average ratios (mean, median and mode). d) Calculate the spread ratios (range, absolute deviation and average deviation).

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2. Use the following data (marks obtained by a group of students) to: 9, 1, 6, 8, 2, 10, 5, 3, 8, 5, 8, 7, 5, 7, 3, 4, 5, 3, 5, 6, 9, 9, 6, 5, 8, 7, 4, 4, 8, 2. a) Create a complete frequency table. b) Express the results in a bar chart, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the average ratios (mean, median and mode). d) Calculate the spread ratios (range, absolute deviation and average deviation). 3. The marks obtained by 40 students on an exam are: 2, 8, 6, 9, 5, 5, 6, 4, 6, 8, 6, 2, 5, 3, 4, 9, 1, 4, 5, 3, 6, 1, 4, 8, 7, 9, 9, 8, 3, 6, 5, 6, 8, 4, 10, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10. a) Create a complete frequency table. b) Express the results in a bar chart, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the average ratios (mean, median and mode). d) Calculate the spread ratios (range, absolute deviation and average deviation). 4. 30 students have been asked about the number of brothers and sisters they are in their families. These are the answers: 1, 2, 1, 3, 6, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2. a) Create a complete frequency table. b) Plot the results in a bar chart, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the average ratios (mean, median and mode). d) Calculate the spread ratios (range, absolute deviation and average deviation). 5. In a class of 25 pupils over a period of 30 school sessions, following you have the numbers of absences for each pupil: 0, 1, 0, 0, 5, 18, 3, 2, 2, 3, 0, 1, 1, 4, 3, 2, 5, 20, 0, 1, 2, 24, 2, 3 a) Calculate the mean number of absences per pupil. b) Find the median. c) How many pupils have a number of absences above the mean, and how many are below it? 6. Gary has a Saturday job. He earns 3.20 euros an hour. He thinks that most of his friends earn more. Here you have a list of how much an hour his friends are paid. Lisa 3.10 Helen 3.51 Scott 4.00 Kirsty 3.75 Kate 3.75 Ben 3.75 Kylie 2.90 Ruksana 3.40

By working out the mean, median and mode for his friends pay, investigate whether Gary is right.

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7. Copy and organize in a complete frequency table the number of vowels of these texts. Pure mathematics is in its way, the poetry of logical ideas (Albert Einstein) The laws of Nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God (Euclids) Draw a bar chart and a pie chart with the data. 8. The following bar chart represents the age, in years, of the kids attending a summer camp

a) Which is the mean age of the people attending the summer camp? b) Calculate the mode. c) Which is the median age? d) What is the range of the data? e) Calculate the average deviation of the ages. 9. The weights of the players of two football teams, in kilos, are the following: Team A: 72, 65, 71, 56, 59, 63, 61, 70, 52, 49, 68. Team B: 61, 82, 84, 73, 77, 70, 69, 68, 72, 71, 70. a) Calculate the range of each team. b) Calculate the mean of each team. c) Calculate the average deviation for each team. d) Which team has the most spread data? 10. The following set of data represents the number of books read during a year by a group of students. 347821507263546335235476331543549574 a) Which type of statistical data are? b) Create a complete frequency table which allows you to calculate the following questions. c) Calculate the mean and the mode. d) Which is the median for the collected data? e) Depict the data using a bar chart and a line graph.
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3) GROUPED DATA 1. Following you have the different heights of the members of a junior basketball team. 178, 179, 182, 183, 184, 204, 201, 199, 198, 197, 184, 194, 188, 192, 191. a) Create a complete frequency table using the following ranges 175-180-185-190-195-200-205 b) Express the results using a histogram, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the estimated average ratios (mean, median and mode). d) Calculate the estimated spread ratios (range, absolute deviation and average deviation).

2. The different heights of 30 students in a class are: 164, 159, 165, 168, 168, 150, 172, 173, 165, 162, 162, 165, 169, 178, 168, 167, 163, 163, 154, 166, 165, 160, 161, 170, 165, 168, 158, 149, 160, 175. a) Create a complete frequency table using the following ranges 148,5 153,5 158,5 163,5 168,5 173,5 178,5 b) Express the results using a histogram, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the estimated average ratios (mean, median and mode). d) Calculate the estimated spread ratios (range, absolute deviation and average deviation). 3. Following you have the marks obtained by the students on an exam. 2, 8, 6, 9, 5, 5, 6, 4, 6, 8, 6, 2, 5, 3, 4, 9, 1, 4, 5, 3, 6, 1, 4, 8, 7, 9, 9, 8, 3, 6, 5, 6, 8, 4, 10, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10. a) Create a complete frequency table using the following ranges Very poor 1-2, Unsatisfactory 3-4, Pass 5-6, Very good 7-8 and Excellent 9-10 b) Express the results using a histogram, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the estimated average ratios (mean, median and mode). d) Calculate the estimated spread ratios (range, absolute deviation and average deviation).

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4. The age profile of the population of Ciudad Real is contained in the frequency table below:

a) Complete the table and use it to calculate an estimated mean age for the population (only 1 decimal point). b) Which interval contains the median value? c) Which is the modal class? 5. Another town called Puertollano (this is for you, Luis!!!), has a very different age profile, which is shown in the table below:

a) Use the mid-interval technique to calculate the mean age of the population. b) Which interval contains the median age of the population? c) Which is the modal class?

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6. A small company has 93 employees, and their salaries or wages are summarized in the table:

a) Complete the table and use the mid-interval technique to estimate the mean salary. b) In which class interval does the median value lie? c) Which is the modal class? d) What is the range of the data? 7. A different company has a salary profile as follows:

a) Complete the table showing mid-interval values for salaries or wages, and use it to estimate the mean wage. b) In which interval does the median wage lie? c) Which is the modal class? d) What is the range of the data?

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