Indian Education Society’s

Management College and Research Centre, Mumbai

WorkSheet- Measure of Dispersion

1. Marks of five students are given below for the two test conducted for Statistics ( out of 25
Marks) and Management Accounting( out of 50 Marks). Compute Range.

Marks in Statistics: 10, 15 18 20 20

Marks in Accounting: 30 35 40 45 50

2.Compute range for the following distribution:

Income in ‘000 Rs No: of employees

10-20 8
20-30 10
30-40 12
40-50 8
50-60 4

3..Compute inter quartile range, quartile deviation for the series below:

X: 20 28 40 12 30 15 50

4.Compute inter quartile range, quartile deviation for the series below:

Income in ‘000 Rs No: of employees

10 4
20 7
30 15
40 8
50 7
60 2

5.Find quartile deviation for the series below:

Income in ‘000 Rs No: of employees

Less than 35 14
35-37 62
38-40 99
41-43 18
Over 43 7
6.Compute the mean sales for the period and find the quartile deviation.

Sales in (000 units) No: of days

1- 10 7
10- 20 12
20- 30 18
30- 40 25
40- 50 16
50- 60 14
60-70 8

7.Cholesterol level of 10 persons is given. Find the mean cholesterol level and the standard
deviation and coefficient of variation.

Cholesterol level: 240 260 290 245 255 288 272 263 277 251

8.Find standard deviation of the series below:

Age No: of students

0-10 15
10- 20 15
20- 30 23
30- 40 22
40- 50 25
50- 60 10
60-70 5
70-80 10

9. During 10 weeks of a peak sales season, sales unit achieved by two salesmen A and B in two
different sales territories are given below:

Salesman A: 58 59 60 54 65 66 52 75 69 52

Salesman B: 87 89 78 71 73 84 65 66 56 46

a. Using appropriate tool, identify, who is the better performer?

b. Who is more consistent?

10. A charitable organisation decided to give old-age pension to people over sixty years of age.
The scales of pension were fixed as follows:

Age Group Pension/ month ( Rs)

60-65 200
65-70 250
 70-75 300
75-80 350
80-85 400

The ages of 25 persons who secured the pension are as given below:

74 62 84 72 61 83 72 81 64 71 63 61 60 67 74 64 79 73 75 76 69 68 78
66 67

Calculate the monthly average pension payable per person and the standard deviation.

11. The number of cheques cashed each day at the five branches of a bank during the past month
has the following frequency distribution:

Number of Cheques Frequency

0-199 10
200-399 13
400-599 17
600-799 42
800-999 18
The general manager, operations, for the bank, knows that a standard deviation in cheque
cashing of more than 200 checks per day creates staffing problem at the branches because of
uneven workload. Should the manager worry about staffing next month?

12. The numbers of employees, average daily wages per employee, and the variance of daily
wages per employee for two factories are given below:

Factory A Factory B
Number of Employees 50 100
Average daily wages ( Rs) 120 85
Variance of daily wages ( Rs) 9 16

I. In which factory is there greater variation in the distribution of daily wages per
employee?
II. Suppose in factory B, the wages of an employee were wrongly noted as Rs 120 instead of
Rs 100. What would be the correct average daily wages for factory B employees?

13. The share prices of a company in Mumbai and Pune markets during the last ten months are
recorded below:

Month Mumbai Pune

January 105 108
February 120 117
March 115 120
 April 118 130
May 130 100
June 127 125
July 109 125
August 110 120
September 104 110
October 112 135

Use the appropriate technique to understand, in which market in which market are the share
prices more stable?

14.A person owns two petrol filling stations A and B. At station A, a representative sample of
200 consumers who purchase petrol was taken. The results were as follows:

Number of Litres of Petrol Purchased Numbers of Consumers

0 and < 2 15
2 and < 4 40
4 and < 6 65
6 and < 8 40
8 and < 10 30
10 and over 10

A similar sample at station B users showed a mean of 4 litres with a standard deviation of 2.2
litres. At which station is the purchase of petrol relatively more variable?

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