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Tutorial Sheet 1 PDF
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
ECON 1005 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
PROBLEM SET 1
2. A sample of 1100 people was asked to give their favourite sport. The responses
were:
Sport Number
Baseball 324
Basketball 149
Football 347
Golf 29
Track and Field 68
Netball 92
Tennis 45
Other 46
3. (a) Construct a frequency distribution table from the data given below, using the
classes: 50 59, 60 69, 70 79, 80 89, and 90 99.
87 79 94 60 75 94
77 83 68 74 82 73
63 75 77 83 92 57
64 53 53 82 73 90
55 68 72 88 65 78
(b) Construct a histogram and a frequency polygon for the frequency distribution.
(c) Calculate the relative frequency for each class.
(d) Construct a relative frequency polygon.
4. The following summarizes the scores obtained by 100 students on a questionnaire
designed to measure managerial ability. (A high score indicates a high level of
ability.)
(a) What measurement class contains the highest proportion of test scores?
(b)What proportion of the scores are higher than 11.5?
(c) Construct a less than cumulative distribution table.
(d) Draw an ogive for the less than cumulative frequency distribution.
(e) Using the ogive in part d, what percentage of students scored less than 5.5?
5. The following are weekly rentals ($) for 45 apartments in a large metropolitan
area:
(a) What percentage of workers rented apartments that cost $200 and over?
(b) Construct a more than cumulative frequency distribution table.
(c) Draw an ogive for the more than cumulative frequency distribution.