MIZAN -TEPI UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF NATURAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
Introduction to Statistics for engineer's Worksheet I
1. The investigator was interested in studying the marital status, which is often grouped as ( ),
( ), ( ), ( ) of people in a certain town. The following data
were obtained.

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a) To which scale of measurement do these data belong?
b) Summarize the data by constructing the appropriate frequency distribution.
c) Present the data using the appropriate graph/diagrams.
2. The following data represents the scores of marks that an instructor gives a ten point test for statistics
students in stat 1071 course (use sturge's formula).

2.05 2.01 2.43 2.63 2.5 3.25 3 3.32 2.73 2.7 2.85 2.95 4.64 5.27
2.9 3.6 3.58 3.62 3.4 3.34 3.45 3.85 3.5 4.1 4.08 4.12 4.62 5.25
3.83 3.75 3.94 4.07 4.05 5.15 4.54 5.2 3.99 3.97 4 4.55 4.7 6.4
4.58 5.5 5.05 5.55 4.2 4.15 4.25 5 4.9 6.5 5.35 5.85 5.3 5.8

a) Construct a frequency table and find the cumulative relative frequency.

b) Construct a histogram, frequency polygon and an Ogive curve.
3. Suppose the data collected for heights (in cm) of 390 men were tabulated in a frequency distribution
and the following results were obtained.
: 6 25 48 72 116 60 38 22 3
= 112 , = 117 ℎ ℎ ( ).
Determine:
a) The width of the class intervals b) The class limits
c) Class boundaries d) Class marks.
e) The less than frequency distribution
f) Above which height do we find 50% of the men.
g) Below which height do we get 25% of the men.
Draw: a) Histogram, frequency polygon and an Ogive curve for the data.
4. Suppose that Mr. X pays 15 cents/kw for his electricity and Mr.Y pays 20 cents/kw:
a) If Mr. X consumed 50kw and Mr. Y consumed 120 kw. Find the average cost per kw.
b) If Mr. X pays 10 birr and Mr. Y pays 15 birr at the indicated rates, what is the average cost
per kw.

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5. a) Determine the missing frequencies of the following distribution given that the median is 33.5 and
the mode is 34.
Class limits 0-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 Total
4 16 6 4 230

b) Compute the mean. c) Compute the median and all quartiles.

6. The following data on income in the form of cumulative frequency distribution is given.
Income (CI) 100-200 100-300 100-400 100-500 100-600
No of persons 15 33 63 83 100

Find: a) Construct a complete grouped frequency table.

b) The 2nd and 8th deciles. c) The 40th and 90th percentiles.
7. In a certain test the pass mark is 30. The distribution of marks of passing candidates classified by sex
is given below. The overall (combined) mean marks for boys including the 20 failed were 39. The
corresponding figure for girls including the 10 failed were 37.
a) Find the mean marks obtained by the 20 boys who failed in the test.
b) Find the mean marks obtained by the 10 girls who failed in the test.

Marks 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 Total

Boys 5 10 15 30 5 5 70
Girls 15 20 30 20 4 1 90

8. (I) Compute the range, the variance, the standard deviation and the coefficient of variation for the
following data.
) : 1, 3, 12, 2, 8 6 ) : 3, 6, 2, 1, 7 4
c) d)
Items (xi) 122 131 140 149 CI 60-62 63-65 66-68 69-71
fi 3 5 9 12 fi 5 18 42 27

Find: I. The combined mean for sets A and B.

II. If we add 5 to each of the numbers in set A, we obtain : 6, 8, 17, 7, 13 11 , show
that the two sets (i.e. A & C) have the same variance but different means. how are the means related?
9. In a certain examination, the average mark of students in section A is 68.4 and the average mark of
students in section B is 71.2. If the average mark of both sections combined is 70, find the ratio of the
number of students in section A to the number of students in B.
10. A meteorologist are interested to study the consistency of temperatures in two cities during a given
week and collected the following data.
: 25 24 23 26 17
: 22 21 24 22 20
a) For which city is the temperature more consistent, based on these data?