Extra Exercise Chapter 2(a)

1. Twenty elementary school children were asked if they live both parent (B), father only (F),
mother only (M) or someone else (S). The responses of the children as follows.

M B B M F S B M F M
B F B M M B B F B M

i. Construct a frequency distribution table.

ii. Write the relative frequencies and percentage for all categories.
iii. What percentage of the children in this sample live with their mother only?
iv. Draw a bar chart for the frequency distribution and pie chart for the percentage.

2. Statisticians often need to know the shape of a population to make inference. The following
data give the weights (in pounds) of a random sample of 44 college students.

123 195 138 115 179 119 148 147 180

146 179 189 175 108 193 114 179 147
108 128 164 174 128 159 193 204 125
133 115 168 123 183 116 182 174 102
123 99 161 162 155 202 110 132

i. Construct a stem and leaf display for the following data.

ii. Can you explain why these data appear the way they do?