Introduction, Collection and presentation of Data

1. The production of a Steel for five consecutive years in million tons, is shown below, draw bar diagram.
Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Production 10 14 17 20 15
(in million tons)
2. Number of students in post graduate classes of a university is given below:
Year: 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16
Science: 240 280 340
Humanities: 560 610 570
Commerce: 220 280 370
Present the data above by a percentage bar diagram
3. Draw a pie chart to represent the following data of the proposed expenditure by the Karnataka
government for 2015-19.
Items Expenditure (in Rs. Lakhs)
Agriculture 600
Industry 400
Irrigation 450
Education 300
Miscellaneous 250
4. In a two week study of the productivity of workers the following data were obtained on the average
number of acceptable pieces which 40 workers produced per hour.
3.6 6.7 4.3 2.8 5.6 7.9 8.4 4.9 3.6 6.5
8.2 6.2 2.2 5.5 7.2 6.8 4.0 3.7 7.8 4.3
6.5 7.3 5.7 3.9 4.6 5.7 5.6 6.0 5.0 8.8
4.5 5.6 7.5 4.0 5.1 7.0 7.4 7.6 4.8 5.9
Form a frequency distribution with class intervals 2-3, 3-4, …. and hence draw the histogram.
5. From the following data draw a histogram and locate mode graphically.
Wages: 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
No. of workers: 60 140 110 150 120 100 90
6. Draw a histogram for the following data and hence locate the mode:
Wage 0-2 2-4 4-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-60 60-70
No. of workers: 2 6 8 25 40 30 20 8
7. Draw an ogives and locate median graphically for the following data
Marks below 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
No of students: 4 6 24 45 67 86 96 99 100
8. The distribution of processing time of jobs on a computer is given below
Processing time (in secs) 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50
Frequency 3 11 29 53 23 14 6