Assignment 4

Name:________________________ Section:____________

1. Ecommerce.com, a large Internet retailer, is studying the lead time (elapsed time between when an
order is placed and when it is filled) for a sample of recent orders. The lead times are reported in
days.
Lead Time (days) Frequency Midpoint Of Each Coordinates For
Class Frequency
Polygon

0 up to 10 10

10 up to 20 8

20 up to 30 12

30 up to 40 12

40 up to 50 8

a. Total 50 How
many
orders were studied?
b. What is the midpoint of the first class?
c. What are the coordinates of the first class for a frequency polygon?
d. Draw a histogram.
e. Draw a frequency polygon.

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2. The frequency distribution representing the number of frequent flier miles accumulated by
employees at Brumley Statistical Consulting Company is represented below:

Frequent Flier
Miles (000) Frequency
0 up to 3 7
3 up to 6 10
6 up to 9 23
9 up to 12 6
12 up to 15 4
Total 50

a. How many employees accumulated less than 6,000 miles?

b. Convert the frequency distribution to a cumulative frequency distribution.
c. Portray the frequency distribution in the form of a cumulative frequency polygon.
d. Based on the cumulative frequency polygon, about 50 percent of the employees accumulated
how many miles or less?