Assignment (15%) Deadline:14-05-2021

1. Suppose the data collected for heights (in cms) of 390 cows were tabulated in a frequency
distribution and the following results were obtained.
i. fi: 6 25 48 72 116 60 38 22 3
CM1:=112, CM2=117 where CMi ith class mark
Determine:
a. The class width
b. The class limits
c. Class boundaries
d. Class marks
e. Less than cumulative frequency distribution
f. Class intervals having the highest frequency
g. Above which height do we find 50% of the cows?
h. Below which height do we get 25% of the cows?
Draw
a. Histogram
b. A frequency polygon
c. A less than ogive for the above data.
2. Given that the median is 33.5 and the mode is 34.0 for the following distribution,
Class limits frequency
1.9 4
10.19 16
20.29 f3
30-39 f4
40-49 f5
50.59 6
60.69 4
Total 230
a) Determine the missing frequencies
b) Compute the arithmetic mean.
c) Compute the value below which 25% of the observations lie.
 d) Compute the value above which 25% of the observations lie
3. The following data on income in the form of cumulative frequency distribution is given:
INCOME NO.OF PERSONS
100___200 15
100___301 33
100___402 63
100___503 83
100___604 100
Find (a) construct a complete Grouped Frequency table
(b) Draw the appropriate graph
(c) The mean
(b) The median and all quartiles
(c) The 2nd and the 8th deciles
(d) Thse 40th and the 90th percentiles
4. A meteorologist is interested in knowing the consistency of temperatures in three cities
during a given week and collected the following data. The temperatures for the five days of
the week in the three cities were
City 1: 25 24 23 26 17
City2: 22 21 24 22 20
City3: 32 27 35 24 28
Which city have the most consistent temperature, based on these data?
5. The number of patients in two hospitals A and B, the average wage of employees and the
variances of wages are given below:
Hospital A Hospital B
No. of employees 50 100
Mean wage 120 85
Variance 9 6
a) In which hospital is the variation in the distribution of wages greater?
b) Suppose the wage of an employee in hospital B was wrongly noted as 120 instead of
250. What will be the variance for hospital B?
c) What information is required to identify the type and extent of skewness in each
distribution?
6. The median and the mode of a mesokurtic distribution are 32 and 34 respectively. The 4 th
moment about the mean is 243. Compute the Peasonian coefficient of skewness and identify
the type of skewness assume that (n-1 = n).
7. The average score of a special test of knowledge of wood refinishing has a mean of 53 and
standard deviation of 6. Find the range of values in which at least 75% the scores will lie.
8. The weight of adults in a certain city has a mean of 130 lbs, with standard deviation of 41
lbs. A sample of 25 adults living in one of the kebeles of the city is found to have a mean
weight of 129 lbs. Does this mean the residents of the kebele weigh significantly less on the
basis of the1% level of significance? (Assume normal population.)
9. It is known in a pharmacological experiment that rats fed with a particular diet over a certain
period gain an average of 40 gms in weight. A new diet was tried on a sample of 20 rats
yielding a weight gain of 43 gms with variance 7 gms 2. Test the hypothesis that the new diet
is an improvement assuming normality.
10. A tobacco company advertises that the average nicotine content of its cigarettes is at most
14 milligrams. A consumer protection agency wants to determine whether the average
nicotine content is in fact greater than 14. A random sample of 300 cigarettes of the
company’s brand yield an average nicotine content of 14.6 and a standard deviation of 3.8
milligrams. Is there significant evidence that the agency’s claim has been supported by the
data at  = 0.01? (Assume normal population.)
11. The amount of sewage and industrial pollutants dumped into a body of water affects the
health of the water by reducing the amount of dissolved oxygen available for aquatic life.
Over a 2-month period, 8 samples were taken from a river at a location 1 mile downstream
from a sewage treatment plant. The amount of dissolved oxygen in the samples was 5.1, 4.9,
5.6, 4.2, 4.8, 4.5, 5.3 and 5.2. The current research asserts that the mean dissolved oxygen
level must be at least 5.0 parts per million (ppm) for fish to survive.
a. Estimate the amount of dissolved oxygen in the river and construct a 95% confidence
interval for the mean dissolved oxygen level during the 2-month period.
b. Using the confidence interval from (a), does the mean oxygen level appear to be less than
5 ppm?
c. Test the research hypothesis that the mean oxygen level is less than 5 ppm at 5% level of
significance
12. A pollution-control inspector suspected that a riverside community was releasing semi-
treated sewage into a river and this, as a consequence, was changing the level of dissolved
oxygen of the river. To check this, he drew 15 randomly selected specimens of river water at
a location above the town and another 15 specimens below. The dissolved oxygen readings,
in parts per million, are given in the accompanying table.
Above town 5.2 4.8 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.8 5.0 4.7 4.7 5.0 4.7 5.1 5.0 4.9 4.9
Below town 4.2 4.4 4.7 4.9 4.6 4.8 4.9 4.6 5.1 4.3 5.5 4.7 4.9 4.8 4.7
a. Do the data provide sufficient evidence to indicate a difference in mean oxygen content
between locations above and below the town? Use  .05.
b. Do the required conditions to use the test in (a) appear to be valid for this study? Justify your
answer.
c. How large is the difference between the mean oxygen content above and below the town?
13. A researcher wanted to compare the pulse rates of identical twins to see whether there was
any difference. Eight sets of twins were selected. The rates are given in the table as number
of beats per minute. At  0.01, is there a significant difference in the average pulse rates
of twins? Find the 99% confidence interval for the difference of the two.