Today is December 2nd

2020
Topic: STATISTICS
is the discipline that concerns the collection,
organization, analysis, interpretation and presentation
of data.
Vocabulary

• Statistics
• Data
• Tally
• Frequency
• Graph
• Label
• Survey
• Qualitative
• Quantitative
Variable
Any aspect of an individual that is measured is called a variable.
(Variable means something that is changing)

There are two types:

Quantitative= Numerical data

Ex: Age, Height, number of siblings.

Qualitative= Non- numerical data

Ex: Favorite color, Favorite food, sports.

 Task
Classify each variable Qualitative or Quantitative

1. Birth Year

2. Color of your eyes

3. Number of pets

4. Favorite tv show
Survey
A survey is a method to collect information. Involves a question and a
variable to study.

Ex: What is your favorite color? Variable: Color Type: Qualitative

REPRESENTING
DATA
FREQUENCY TABLES

Frequency is the number of times a data appears.

A table :

1. It has a title
2. It has columns and rows
3. It has a tally column and a frequency column

Tally

Frequency 1 2 3 4 5
Read tally marks

Exercise
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 Organize information

Laura did a survey about some students favorite

fruit. Here are the results:
Fruit Tally Frequency
Banana III 3
Pear IIII 4
Apple IIII 4
Peach IIII 4
Total 15

Build the table

What is the variable?

What type of variable is it?

 ACTIVITY
At a restaurant, the owner counted the number of costumers on each
day of the week. Look at the table and answer
1. What is the variable?
2. What type of variable is it?
3. How many more costumers went
on friday than tuesday?
4. What is the day with the highest
frequency?
5. How many costumers went on the
weekend?
6. If the owner wants to have a
conclusion about the restaurant
attendance, What would you tell
him?
 Bar graphs

Are used to represent qualitative information. Each bar is a variable and the
height shows the frequency.
Title
Frequency

This graph shows the number of cars sold by brand during a month

Variables
Line graphs

Are used to represent quantitative data. Each point shows the relationship
between a variable and its frequency.
Population in Cartagena

The graph shows the projection of population

in Cartagena between 1750 and 2050
Your turn

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