Assignment 1

Q1. Prof. Hardtack gave four Friday quizzes last semester in his 10-student senior tax accounting
class as follows:

Quiz 6 60 6 6 71 7 74 7 8 99
1 0 0 0 3 5 8
Quiz 6 65 6 6 70 7 79 7 7 79
2 5 5 5 4 9 9
Quiz 6 67 7 7 72 7 74 7 9 99
3 6 0 1 2 4 5
Quiz 1 49 7 8 85 8 90 9 9 98
4 0 0 0 8 3 7

Find the mean, median, mode for each quiz. If there is no value repeating, find
mode = 3 median – 2 mean
Q2. The shift supervisor at a local manufacturing plant collected data on the number of defects
coming off an assembly line over the past eight weeks (40 work days). She summarized the data
in the following table.

# of Errors 0 1 2 3 4 5
# of Weeks 1 4 7 16 10 2
What is the average number of errors per night?
Q3. The finishing process on new furniture leaves slight blemishes. The following table
displays a manager’s assessment of the number of blemishes in the finish of new furniture.

Number of 0 1 2 3 4 5
Blemishes
Frequency 34 25 19 11 7 4

On average, how many defects would we expect on a piece of furniture?

Q4. A researcher was analyzing the length of words in a poetry written by different poets. In one
such poet he found the length of each word in the 90 words that the poet wrote were as given
below.

5 3 4 2 7 4 3 3 4 2 4 4 5 9 2
4 5 3 5 3 3 4 6 2 4 9 2 6 8 5
5 5 4 3 4 3 5 2 5 5 8 8 9 3 4
7 10 5 3 5 6 2 6 3 3 4 3 3 4 3
6 6 4 2 4 5 5 3 4 2 3 7 2 4 4
12 7 3 6 4 4 6 2 7 2 5 6 3 2 7
 Using the above data with minimum and maximum value as two ends, construct a frequency
distribution for the above data. Use the class intervals as 2-5, 5-8, 8-11 and 11-14.

Q5. A researcher was ascertaining the expenditure of households incurs on electricity each
month. A sample of 50 households was considered and the calculated the mean as Rs. 1760.
However, on careful scrutiny it was found that two of the figures for households were recorded as
Rs. 1850 and Rs. 2310 instead of Rs. 1750 and Rs. 2530 respectively. Reevaluate the new average
of the sample.

Q6. The following are the amount of time spent on the internet ( minutes per day) collected from
a sample of 15 employees of an organization.
45 56 63 27 43

65 120 70 73 85
86 95 100 110 85
Find the following :
The average time , median time and mode time spent on the internet.

Q7. The Following are the daily wages of 40 workers in a factory:

26 24 16 10 16 23 28 23 25 18 10 11
20 21 19 18 15 13 22 17 15 29 29 12
34 15 14 18 22 24 30 38 17 32 36 20
19 27 33 31
i) Form a frequency distribution table taking 4 as the class interval.
ii) Find the percentage of Workers getting wages below Rs. 32.
ii) Draw Histogram of the Frequency Distribution and find the modal wage.

Q.8. Calculate Arithmetic mean , median and mode of the following distribution:

Class Interval Frequency

2000 – 3000 12
3000 – 4000 25
4000 - 5000 37
5000 – 6000 18
6000 – 7000 8
Total 100

Q9. An analysis of production rejects resulted in the following figures

Number of rejects per operator Number of Operators

21-25 5
 26-30 15

31-35 28

36-40 42

41-45 15

46-50 12

51-55 3

Calculate mean, median and mode. (Keep the class intervals as they are)