Department of Mathematics

Assoc. Prof. W. Emam

Spring 2019

Mathematics
for Management Students (MATH-201)
Worksheet Nr. (7)

Basic Statistics
Exercise 1:

For the data set below (representing the serum cholesterol levels of 30 individuals), find the
median and the mode. Then organize the data into a frequency distribution with 8 groups.

231, 228, 257, 221, 238, 196, 242, 219, 252, 235, 227, 256, 198, 240, 251, 246,
217, 236, 224, 215, 241, 226, 200, 238, 259, 231, 246, 231, 219, 256, 244, 222,
207, 259, 203, 196, 215, 222, 206, 213

Exercise 2:

Given the sorted data

745 746 747 750 753 754 756 757 758 759
760 760 761 762 763 764 766 766 767 768
769 770 770 771 771 771 771 776 778 780

Find the mode, the median, the mean.

Exercise 3:

The following data set represents a daily record of the marked prize of 1 barrel oil over 2
months.

83.70, 63.10, 89.80, 82.10, 89.30, 54.80, 73.20, 63.70, 52.90, 77.90, 78.10, 51.40, 72.10,
66.90, 71.70, 60.10, 89.90, 89.10, 81.80, 81.10, 60.20, 77.60, 72.60, 70.40, 55.80, 72.90,
85.30, 80.60, 53.00, 78.00, 74.20, 51.40, 50.80, 79.80, 66.30, 83.60, 81.50, 52.60, 77.50,
82.30, 79.40, 59.70, 81.90, 75.80, 50.10, 69.80, 53.90, 85.30, 75.50, 88.20, 51.10, 76.50,
65.10, 65.10, 69.60, 67.30, 79.90, 79.20, 54.20, 84.30.

a) Set up a frequency distribution of the prices with 5 classes.

b) Change the number of classes to 8

Exercise 4:

The following bar chart gives the favorite color of

32people. Find the mode. Convert it into a pie
chart.

Exercise 5:

This histogram gives the executive incomes for the

summer corporation. Tabular the data. Find the mode.