Additional exercises

2.1 Collecting and organising data

1 State which of the following are qualitative, quantitative, discrete or continuous.

a The number of ducks in a pond.

b The water is blue.

c The time taken for 10 dogs to eat a bowl of food.

d The number of petals on tulips.

e The children are happy.

f The length of 5-year-olds’ arm spans.

g The height of trees in a forest.

h Jean sizes.

2 Engy works in a windmill that is open to the public one day each year. Engy measures the
time, to the nearest tenth of a minute, that it took each of the 250 visitors to climb to the
top of the windmill.

14.4 08.9 04.7 12.8 14.2 06.5 06.8 08.4 08.7 09.6 04.6 15.8 06.2 17.8 19.8 04.6 16.1 08.7 08.7
09.0 20.0 06.1 12.8 12.6 03.4 03.3 16.1 04.1 10.8 03.0 11.7 19.4 19.1 06.0 17.0 02.7 20.4 04.3
19.6 06.4 16.7 16.8 20.4 05.6 18.6 16.7 07.4 14.6 12.6 14.0 07.8 03.3 06.0 11.1 15.9 04.9 02.9
19.3 16.8 04.2 04.0 06.2 16.6 16.8 09.3 13.9 20.0 06.2 09.0 03.8 13.7 09.4 14.4 03.5 09.1 06.8
20.0 16.2 16.4 20.4 07.8 09.5 03.9 11.5 10.7 20.3 11.0 07.2 14.6 03.6 05.9 06.6 13.1 03.3 07.3
05.6 11.3 09.9 07.5 05.3 15.5 10.0 10.6 08.7 09.4 02.9 20.2 20.0 08.6 02.9 12.8 13.2 09.1 09.8
09.1 15.6 13.9 20.3 19.8 10.6 08.8 07.9 14.1 12.1 17.9 18.1 05.3 14.3 13.9 08.6 10.2 19.2 19.5
09.8 13.2 14.0 09.3 11.0 10.0 08.6 19.9 19.3 17.9 03.1 05.6 10.6 17.0 16.2 13.7 16.4 07.7 06.4
11.7 09.4 16.5 02.6 16.7 18.7 13.6 15.7 06.1 06.0 03.1 11.3 19.4 08.2 05.9 16.8 03.0 05.0 09.4
10.4 14.9 14.7 16.0 18.4 04.8 08.1 02.7 13.8 08.4 13.7 15.1 04.6 12.1 04.2 06.6 15.8 07.5 10.2
16.3 19.5 14.1 16.4 17.1 19.2 13.2 10.5 10.1 08.3 16.7 18.1 11.9 07.3 10.5 13.0 10.1 13.2 14.2
16.6 15.5 09.0 14.9 17.6 07.5 15.1 17.7 06.7 15.3 15.2 07.4 16.6 16.5 17.1 08.3 17.4 08.5 06.5
18.0 03.3 10.0 16.9 20.7 09.1 11.2 18.6 05.0 19.4 03.2 16.1 04.2 13.6 11.8 02.4 12.9 14.7 06.5
10.4 17.4 13.0

a Take a systematic sample of every 10th time and find the mean and standard deviation.

b Use a random number generator to pick 25 numbers between 1 and 250 and find the
mean and standard deviation of these times.

c Given that the mean of all 250 times is 11.5 and the standard deviation is 5.19, comment
on your two sets of results. The 250 people consisted of 100 men, 60 women and 90
children. Engy wants to take a stratified sample of 30 from the 250.

d Work out how many from each group she should pick.

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Answers

1 a Quantitative and discrete

b Qualitative

c Quantitative and continuous

d Quantitative and discrete

e Qualitative

f Quantitative and continuous

g Quantitative and continuous

h Quantitative and discrete

2 a Students’ own answers.

b The answer will depend on which numbers the random generator produced.

c This answer will depend on the results that the students found in parts (i) and (ii).
100 × 30 60 × 30 90 × 30
d = 12 men, = 7.2 women, = 10.8 children. So, she needs to pick at random 12
250 250 250
men, 7 women and 11 children.

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