Fundamental to Biostatistics (Stat 4091) – Exercise II

1. If the arithmetic mean and the geometric mean of two observations are 6.5 and 6
respectively, find the values of the observations.

2. If we have frequency distribution which is almost, but not quite, symmetrical and
whose mean and mode are 27 and 29 respectively, what will be the appropriate
value of the median?

3. In a certain department there are 7 seniors whose average weight is 165 lbs., 9
juniors with and average weight of 160 lbs., 13 sophomores with an average
weight of 152 lbs. What is the average weight of 49 members of the department?

4. Suppose the following distribution is given:

Transformed class marks: -3 -2 -1 0 1 2
Frequencies: 5 10 25 30 20 10
Given that the mean of the distribution is 33 and the arbitrary mean is 35.
i. compute the mode and the median
ii. identify the type of skewness

5. Three teachers of economics reported mean examination marks of 79, 74 and 82

in their classes, which consisted of 32, 25 and 17 students, respectively.
Determine the mean mark for all the classes?

6. If the mean annual incomes of agricultural and nonagricultural workers in a

certain country are $9,000 and $15,000, respectively, $12,000? when and how?

7. During four successive years, a home owner purchased oil for her furnace at
respective costs of 0.80,0.90, 1.05 and 1.25 birr per gallon. What was the average
cost of oil over the 4-years period?

8. Suppose that Mr. X pays 15 cents /kw- hr for his electricity and Mr. Y pays 20
cents/kw-hr if Mr. X consumed 50 kw hours while Mr. Y uses 120 kw-hr.

i. If Mr. X consumed 50 kw hrs and Mr Y uses 120 kw hrs., find the

average cost per kw hr.
ii. If Mr. X pays 10 birr while Mr. Y pays 15 birr at the indicated
rates, what is the average cost per kw-hr?

9. The price of a commodity increased by 5% from 1993 to 1999, by 8% from 1999

to 2000 and by 77% from 2000 to 2001. What was the average yearly price
increase?

10. A person purchased the following quantities of cement (kg)wityh rates shown at 4
stores:
Store Quantity purchased (kg) Rate of purchase (kg/birr)
A 15 20
B 20 16

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C 25 12
D 40 10

Determine the average amount of cement the person purchased for one birr.

11. Find the standard deviation and the mean deviation of the following series:
respectively find maximum and the minimum observations.

12. Find the standard deviation and the mean deviation of the following series:
X: 10 11 12 13 14
F: 3 12 18 10 3

13. In a certain test the pass mark is 30. The distribution of marks of passing
candidates classified by sex are given below.
Marks Boys Girls
30-34 5 15
35-39 10 20
40-44 15 30
45-49 30 20
50-54 5 4
55-50 5 1
Total 70 90

The overall mean and standard deviation of marks for boys including the 20 failed were
39 and 10, respectively. The corresponding figures for girls including the 10 failed were
37 and 9. Find the mean and standard deviation of marks obtained by the 30 boys who
failed in the test. Find the respective values for girls.

14. The mean height of male workers is 70 inches and the standard deviation is 2.9
inches. The corresponding numbers for female workers are 64 inches and 2.3
inches. If the ration of male and female workers is 70.30 what is the mean and
standard deviation for male and female workers combined together? Whose heigts
are more variables?

15. From a normal distribution the following sample results were obtained:

Determine
a) the mean deviation
b) the coefficient of variation
c) the quartile deviation
D the range in which 50% of the observations are expected to lie
(Hint Use median and quartile deviation).

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16. For a moderately skewed frequency distribution, the mean is 10 and the median
8.5. If the coefficient of variation is 20% , find the Pearsonian coefficient of
skewness and the probable mode of the distribution.

17. In a moderately asymmetrical distribution, the mode minus the mean is 2.4 the
coefficient of variation and skewness are 20% and 0.5 respectively.
i. is the distribution positively or negatively skewed? Why?
ii. Find
a) the mode b) the median
c) the mean d) the standard deviation

18. If the standard deviation of series is 10, what should be the value of the fourth
moment in order the distribution to be
a) Leptokurtic? b) Platykutic

19. What should be the values of the third and fourth moments in order for the
distribution to be mesokurtic?

20. The average grade and standard deviation of Biol. 202 are 60 and 5 respectively.
At least what percentage of students scored between 40 and 80?

21. If the average burning duration of a certain type of electrical bulb is 4320 hours,
at most what fraction of the bulbs will last 5400 hrs or more?

22. a) Determine the missing frequencies of the following distribution given that the
median is 33.5 and the mode is 34.0.

Class limits frequency

0-9 4
10-19 16
20-29 f3
30-39 f4
40-49 f5
50-59 6
60-69 4
Total 230
b) Compute the arithmetic mean.
c) Compute the value below which 25% of the observations lie.
d) Compute the value above which 25% of the observations lie.
23. The number of patients in two hospitals A and B, the average wage of employees
and the variance of wages are given below:
Hospital A Hospital B
No. of employees 50 100
Mean wage 120 85
Variance 9 6

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a) In which hospital is the variation in the distribution of wages greater?

b) Suppose the wage of an employee in hospital B was wrongly noted as 120
instead of 250. What will be the variance for hospital B?
c) What information is required to identify the type and extent of skewness in
each distribution?
24. The median and the mode of a mesokurtic distribution are 32 and 34 respectively.
The 4th moment about the mean is 243. Compute the Peasonian coefficient of
skewness and identify the type of skewness. Assume (n-1 = n).

25. a) Explain the meaning of dispersion

b) What purpose does a measure of dispersion serve?
c) Why are measures of central tendency not sufficient to study a frequency
distribution?
d) Distinguish between absolute and relative measures of dispersion.

26. In a final exam in a Statistics course the mean mark of a group of 150 students
was 78 and the standard deviation 8. In Mathematics exam of the same group, the
mean was 73 and the standard deviation was 7.6.
a) In which group was there a greater dispersion?
b) Suppose a student scored 75 in Statistics and 71 in Mathematics. In which
exam was his relative standing better?

27. The average score of a special test of knowledge of wood refinishing has a mean
of 53 and standard deviation of 6. Find the range of values in which at least 75%
the scores will lie.

28. The average cost of a certain type of grass seed is Birr 4.00. The standard
deviation is 0.1 Birr. Find the minimum percentage of data values which fall in
the 3.82 to 4.28 range.