PAMPANGA STATE AGRICUTURAL UNIVERSITY

Magalang, Pampanga
Statistics

Roque M. LacanlaleJr.
MAEd English

ACTIVITY 4

1. Give at least 10 situations that make use of descriptive statistics and inferential
statistics.

1. collection of summarizing values

2. Describe group characteristics of data
3. Measure of central tendency
4. Skewness
5. Kurtosis
6. Class Average of examination
7. Range of student scores
8. Average Salary
9. Means of managerial satisfaction
10. Average return of investment

a. A professor does not want his students to fail his class, so he is going to add
three points to the lowest 10% of test scores. The mean test score is 145 and
the standard deviation is 21. What is the lowest test score you can receive to
get the extra three points?
b. A researcher is studying reaction times. She believes that 6% of scores
farthest from the mean are due to error. The mean reaction time is 6 and the
standard deviation is .3. What are the highest and lowest reaction times that
will be eliminated?
c. The mean of a set of scores is 89 and the standard deviation is 12. What
percent of scores fall between the raw scores of 76 and 93? What percent of
scores fall between the raw scores of 83 and 97?
d. The top 2% of students in a math class are selected to go into an accelerated
math class. The mean grade is 85 and the standard deviation is 5. What is the
lowest grade a person could receive and still get into the accelerated math
class?
e. A clothing store needs to fire some employees. They decide to fire the employees
who are selling at the bottom 15% of all sales people for the store. The mean
total is $430 a day sold, with a standard deviation of $50. What is the least
amount that a sales person can sell and remain employed?
 2. Construct a frequency distribution from the result of the 50 item test in
mathematics with 40 students. Use five intervals.

Cumulative Cumulative Relative

Scores Frequency Relative Frequency
Frequency Frequency
11-15 4 0.1 40 1
16-20 5 0.13 36 0.9
21-25 6 0.15 31 0.78
26-30 7 0.18 25 0.62
21-25 6 0.15 18 0.45
19-20 7 0.18 12 0.3
11-15 5 0.13 5 0.13