Hawassa University

Department of statistics
Course Title: Basics Statistics (Stat -2131), semester-I,
Year-II, academic year 2014E.C
Instructor Name: Ambachew Misanew (MSc. In statistics)
Assignment (20%)
i) Instruction I: answered the following questions in short way
1. Classify each as nominal-level, ordinal-level, interval-level, or ratio-level measurement (2
pts.)
a) Individuals may be classified according to socio-economic as low, medium & high.
b) prices of air conditioners
c) Horsepower of tractor engines
d) Types of Car brand.
2. Classify the following random variables as discrete or continuous (2 pts.)
a) The length of time to play 18 holes of golf.
b) the amount of watt on different bulbs
c) The number of building permits issued each month in a certain city.
d) Life time (in hours) of 12 flashlight batteries
3. In each of these statements, tell whether descriptive or inferential statistics have been used (2
pts)
a) In the year 2015, 140, 000 students will be enrolled in Ethiopian university
b) Nine out of ten on-the-job fatalities are men.
c) Expenditures for the cable industry were $5.66 billion in 1996.
d) Drinking decaffeinated coffee can raise cholesterol levels by 7%.

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 ii) Instruction II: Do and show all the necessary steps for the following question
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using secondar data sources (2 pts.)?
5. In order to increase the number of customers, a fast-food restaurant regularly monitors its times
of services to ensure that its speed of service is improving in time. A sample of 20 times of
service has been taken on a randomly selected day and is shown here (time in seconds): 45, 48,
49, 56, 61, 66, 66, 66, 70, 72, 72, 75, 78, 79, 81, 81, 83, 95, 102, 133;
a) Construct Grouped frequency distribution following the steps (4 pts.)
b) Draw histogram of the data (1 pts.)
6. The following is the distribution of the monthly bills for electricity of certain households
selected at random from a district. Which measures of central tendency is/ are appropriate?
Mean, median or mode? Why? (4 pts.)
Monthly payment Below 20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 above 80

No. of households 15 12 25 15 10 8 15

7. A fertilizer company runs two manufacturing plants. A sample of 30 employees at plant one
gets a mean salary of Birr 5000. A sample of 20 employees at plant two gets a mean salary of
Birr 7500. What is the average salary for all 50 employees in the company? (2 pts.)

Note:
 the assignment should be done in groups [maximum 5
student in one group]
 Submission Deadline: April 1, 2022