Topic 1: MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY.

MEASURES OF DISPERSTION

HOMEWORK_1

1. Calculate the mean , median and mode for each of the following data set.

a) 6, 10, 7, 14, 8

b) 2, 1, 4, 2, 1

2. The grade point average (GPA) of 10 students who applied for financial aid are shown below

3.15, 3.62, 2.54, 2.81, 3.97, 1.85, 1.93, 2.63, 2.50, 2.80

Find the mean, median, and mode.

3. The monthly income in dollars for seven families are

950, 775, 925, 2500, 1150, 850, 975

a) Calculate the mean and median income

b) Which of the two is preferable as a measure of center, and why?

4. Consider the following two data sets:

Data set I: 10, 12, 17, 8, 15

Data set II: 13, 15, 20, 11, 18

Notice that each value of the second data set is obtained by adding 3 to the corresponding value of the first data set.
Calculate the mean for each of these data sets. Comment on the relationship between the two means.

5. Consider the following two data sets:

Data set I: 2, 5, 7, 9, 8

Data set II: 6, 15, 21, 27, 24

Notice that each value of the second data set is obtained by multiplying the corresponding value of the first data set by
3. Calculate the mean for each of these data sets. Comment on the relationship between the two means.

6. Fifteen students were selected randomly and asked how many hours each studied for the final exam in statistics.
Their answers are recorded here

8, 6, 3, 0, 0, 5, 9, 2, 1, 3, 7, 10, 0, 3, 6

a) Find the range

b) Find the mean absolute deviation

c) Find the sample variance and sample standard deviation

d) Find the interquartile range.

7. Consider the following two data sets:

Data set I : 12, 25, 37, 8, 41

Data set II: 19, 32, 44, 15, 48

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Notice that each value of the second data set is obtained by adding 7 to the corresponding value of the first data set.
Calculate the standard deviation for each of these two data sets using the formula for sample data. Comment on the
relationship between the standard deviations.

8. Consider the following two data sets:

Data set I : 4, 8, 15, 9, 11

Data set II: 8, 16, 30, 18, 22

Notice that each value of the second data set is obtained by multiplying the corresponding value of the first data set by
2. Calculate the standard deviation for each of these data sets using the formula for the sample data. Comment on the
relationship between the standard deviations.

9. Light bulbs manufactured by a well-known electrical equipment firm are known to have a mean life of 800 hours
with a standard deviation of 100 hours.

a) Find a range in which it can be guaranteed that 84% of lifetimes of light bulbs lie.

b) Using the rule of thumb, find a range in which it can be estimated that approximately 68% of these light bulbs lie.

10. Tires of a particular brand have lifetimes with mean of 29.000 km and standard deviation of 3.000 km.

a) Find a range in which it can be guaranteed that 75% of the lifetimes of tire of this brand lie.

b) Using the rule of thumb, find a range in which it can be estimated that approximately 95% of the lifetimes of tires
of this brand lie.

Time Number of
(hours) students

1 1

2 7

3 15

4 10

5 7

11. The all forty students in a class found the following figures for number of hours spent studying in the week before
final exam

a) Find the mean time for study

b) Find the median

c) Find the mode

d) Find the variance and standard deviation for

this population.

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Entertainment Number of
expenditure families
(dollars)

0-10 5

10-20 10

20-30 15

30-40 12

40-50 5

50-60 3

12. The following table gives the frequency

distribution of entertainment expenditures

(in dollars) in curried by 50 families during

the past week.

Find the mean

13. For a sample of twenty-five students from a large class, the accompanying table shows the amount of time students
spent studying for a test

Study time (hours) 0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10

Number of students 3 4 8 7 3

a) Draw the histogram.

b) Find and interpret the cumulative relative frequencies.

c) Estimate the sample mean study time.

d) Estimate the sample variance.

e) Estimate the sample standard deviation study time.