Assignment #3

Instruction: Write your answer in a short bond paper, hand written. I will not
accept encoded output.

Part I
1. The sample grade point averages of 10 students who applied for financial aid
are shown below:

3.62 2.54 2.81 3.97 1.85 1.93 2.63 2.50 2.80 2.21

Find the mean, median, and mode.

2. The calories per servings of 11 fruit juices are 150, 110 , 100, 35, 60, 130, 40
, 140,120, 160 and 110 (Source: Consumer Reports, February 1995, p.79).

Find the mean, median, and mode.

Part II
1. The given data below represents the lifespan of the paints expressed in terms
of months.
Brand A: 45, 60, 50, 55, 48, 56, 57
Brand B: 35, 25, 45, 28, 39, 40, 44
Find the range for each brand. (Explain your answer).
2. Shown below are the numbers of stories in the 11 tallest buildings in St. Paul,
Minnesota
32 36 46 20 32 18 16 34 26 27 26
Find the variance and standard deviation. (explain your answer).

Part III
Suppose 8 samples of a car racing are given by acceleration in terms of meter
per second squared (m/s2 ):
-50 -34 -78 20 67 -40 48 65
compute the following measures of position:
a. 𝑃20 b. 𝑃58 c. 𝐷5 d. 𝐷7 e. 𝑄2
Part IV
The number of goals scored by college lacrosse team for a given season are 4, 9,
0, 1, 3, 24, 12, 3, 30, 12, 7, 13, 18, 4, 5 and 15. Describe the shape of the by
computing the coefficient of skewness.