Assignment – I

Q.1 Two hundred persons were interviewed by a public opinion polling agency.
The frequency distribution gives the ages of persons interviewed. Find the
average.

Age groups (yr.) Frequency( f) Age groups (yr.) Frequency( f)

80 – 89 2 40 - 49 56
70 – 79 2 30 - 39 40
60 – 69 6 20 - 29 42
50 – 59 20 10 - 19 32

Q.2 Find the median of the marks of students from following data :
Marks Above Above Above Above Above Above Above Above Above Above Above
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
No. of 80 77 72 65 55 43 28 16 10 8 0
students

Q.3 An incomplete frequency distribution is given as follow:

Variable 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 Total

frequency 12 30 ? 65 ? 25 18 229
Given that the median value is 46, determine the missing frequencies.

Q.4 Age distribution of hundred life insurance policy holders is as follows:

Ages as 17-19.5 20-25.5 26-35.5 36-40.5 41-50.5 51-55.5 56-60.5 61-70.5

on nearest
birthday
Number 9 16 12 26 14 12 6 5
Calculate variance and standard deviation.