Activity 1

A. Determine whether the following situation is a descriptive statistics or inferential

statistics.
1. The Elective teacher computes the grades of his students.
2. The chairman of the board summarizes the scores of all judges to determine the
top three winners.
3. A planning officer forecasting the future sales of a certain product.
4. A medical researcher studies the effectiveness of a new medicine in patients with
heart disease.
5. A medical researcher studies the effectiveness of a new vaccine to lower the risk
of contracting COVID-19.
B. Classify each as either continuous or discrete data.
6. Length of skirt
7. Height of basketball players
8. Number of hours of sleep
9. All counting numbers from 1
10. Number of students in a class
C. Give the Scale of Measurement of each of the following.
11. Scores obtained in a quiz.
12. Rank of Heidilyn Diaz in the recent Tokyo Olympics.
13. Nationality
14. Weight of basketball players
15. Temperature in Degrees Celcius for 5 consecutive days in Virac, Catanduanes
D. Expand the following summation notation.
7
16. 𝑥𝑖
𝑖=3

5
17.
𝑥𝑦𝑖
𝑖=2

E. Write in summation form.

18. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5

19. 3 + 5 + 7 + 9 + 11

F. Compute the sum (Show your complete solution)

Using the following values for 𝑥𝑖 and 𝑦𝑖 :

𝑥1 = 3 𝑥2 = 5 𝑥3 = 7 𝑥4 = 9

𝑦1 = 5 𝑦2 = 6 𝑦3 = 7 𝑦4 = 8

𝟒 𝟒

20. (𝒙𝒊 + 𝒚𝒊 ) − 𝒙𝒊
𝒊=𝟏 𝒊=𝟏