Activity #1:

Directions : Write your answers and solutions(If there are) and indicate your final answer/s.

A. Identify what kind of variable according to continuity of values the following :

1. Heaviest package received by a courier company in a week.
2. Maximum temperature of Cebu City in a year.
3. Cars sold for two years.
4. Reported destructive typhoons in a year.
5. Life span of a Filipino.
6. Weights of can goods in a super market.
7. Number of board examination passers in Engineering.
8. Income of a company every year.
9. Total number of Php 50 notes circulating in the Philippines.
10. Total shares of certain individual in the stock market.

B. Identify what kind of variable according to level or scale of measurement the

following :
1. Socio-economic status.
2. Location of companies.
3. House temperature.
4. Book numbers in the library.
5. Employees ID numbers.
6. Authority in decision making of family setting in Filipino tradition.
7. Office budget.
8. Average age of students entering college.
9. Engine number of automobile.
10. Percentile scores in National test.
C. Enumerate the methods of collecting data and briefly discuss it.
D. Enumerate the types of non-probability sampling procedures and briefly discuss it.
E. What are the sources of data and give at least one example ?
F. A stratified sample of size “ n ” is to be taken from a population of size N=2,000,
which consist of Four strata of size N1= 500, N2= 1,200, N3= 200 and N4= 100. If the
allocation is to be proportional, how large a sample must be taken from each of the
Four strata using slovin’s at 0.05 margin of error.
G. Construct a FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION TABLE of the following data using a class
interval of 6 and start with the lowest value as the lowest lower limits.(Scores of
Students).

21 11 12 25 15 19 23 35 18 24
16 22 3 5 17 20 14 21 19 16
11 15 16 24 11 14 22 4 17 7
5 19 14 21 13 31 18 27 11 23
23 3 19 15 23 20 16 23 13 19
18 13 19 17 32 20 7 21 24 13

SHOW ALL THE COMPLETE FEATURES.

H. Based on the constructed FDT above answer the following :

a. How many student whose scores are between 21 to 26?
b. How many student whose scores are greater than 15?
c. What is the percentage of the students whose scores are less than 32?
d. What is the class mark of 5th class interval ?.
Note : If answers on a, b, c and d are wrong, it follows that your FDT is wrong.
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