Name: Mansueto, Lucy Mae R.

Date: March 11, 2023

Course/Program: MPA Instructor: Dr. Felix Costan

STATISTICS ACTIVITY 2

1. Listed below are some objects of varying degrees of abstraction. Suggest properties of
each of these objects that can be measured by each of the four basic types of scales.

a. store customers

MY ANSWER:

 Nominal - Group them by race, ethnic background, married or single status, etc.
 
 Ordinal - Rank them as very frequent buyers, frequent buyers, infrequent
buyers
.
 Interval - Some scale of attractiveness in which the scale is presumed to be
interval.
 
 Ratio - Average size of monthly purchases.
 
 a. voter attitudes

MY ANSWER:

 Nominal - grouped as Republican, Democrat, Independent, and other.

 Ordinal - Rank of candidates in order of preference.

 Interval - Likert - type scale

 Ratio - Count of votes for various candidates in each district.

b. hardness of steel alloys

MY ANSWER:

 Nominal - Identification of alloys that include nickel and those that do not.

 Ordinal - Ranking of hardness by determining which alloys scratch which

others.

 Interval - Use of an interval scale designed to rate alloy hardness.

 Ratio - Amount of nickel per pound of steel in various alloys.

c. preference for a particular common stock

MY ANSWER:

 Nominal - Industry classification of preferred stocks.

 Ordinal - Rank order of five stocks as to your preference for them.

 Interval - Rating of preference for the stock by converting the results of a

paired comparison rating into presumed interval scale.

 Ratio - Six-month changes in price of various preferred stocks.

 
 e. profitability of various divisions in a company

MY ANSWER:

 Nominal - Classification of sources of division profits, e.g., manufacturing,

assembly, trading, price changes, etc.

 Ordinal - Ranking of divisions by the size of their profits in 200X.

 Interval - Use of Semantic Differential scale in evaluating the profit

performance image of various divisions.

 Ratio - Profits for each division in 200X.

2. The Department of Agriculture obtained the following data representing the one week
growth in centimeters of 24 newly planted corn plants:

1.3 4.9 3.9 0.8 4.1 1.1

3.1 2.2 2.4 2.4 1.8 1.8
2.4 3.9 1.8 3.9 3.9 4.1
3.9 2.4 4.0 4.2 3.7 1.6

Obtain the mean, median and mode. Suppose the data were grouped and we obtain the
mean, median and mode from the grouped data, explain the differences in the values
between the ungrouped and grouped data.
 A.) MEAN

=
(1.3+4.9+3.9+0.8+4.1+1.1+3.1+2.2+2.4+2.4+1.8+1.8+2.4+3.9+1.8+3.9+3.9+4.1+3.9+2.4+4.0+4.2+3.7+1.6)
24

= 69.60
24

= 2.9 is the “MEAN”

B. ) MEDIAN

ASCENDING ORDER OF THE DATA:

1. 0.8
2. 1.1
3. 1.3
4. 1.6
5. 1.8
6. 1.8
7. 1.8
8. 2.2
9. 2.4
10. 2.4
11. 2.4
12. 2.4
13. 3.1
14. 3.7
15. 3.9
16. 3.9
17. 3.9
 18. 3.9
19. 3.9
20. 4.0
21. 4.1
22. 4.1
23. 4.2
24. 4.9

Median = 2.4 + 3.1

2

= 2.75 is the MEDIAN

C. ) MODE

Mode represents the number of observations in a data set that is occurring most of the
time. As shown in above table, 3.9 is occurring 5 times in the data set. This mean mode is
3.9 in case of given data set.

UNGROUPED DATA:

MEAN = 2.9 MEDIAN = 2.75 MODE = 3.9

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION TABLE IN MAKING THE GROUPED DATA:

FIRST GROUP (0 TO 2.0)

1 0.8 MEAN = 0.8+1.1+1.3+1.6+1.8+1.8+1.8 = 1.457

2 1.1 7
3 1.3
4 1.6 MEDIAN = 1.6
5 1.8
6 1.8
MODE = 1.8
7 1.8
2ND GROUP (2.1 TO 3.0)

1 2.2 MEAN = 2.2+2.4+2.4+2.4+2.4 = 2.36

2 2.4 5
3 2.4
4 2.4 MEDIAN = 2.4
5 2.4
MODE = 2.4

THIRD GROUP (3.1 TO 4.0)

1 3.1 MEAN = 3.1+3.7+3.9+3.9+3.9+3.9+3.9+4.0 = 3.787

2 3.7 8
3 3.9
4 3.9 MEDIAN = 3.9
5 3.9
6 3.9
MODE = 3.9
7 3.9
8 4.0

4TH GROUP (4.1 TO 5.0)

1 4.1 MEAN = 4.1+4.1+4.2+4.9 = 4.32

2 4.1 4
3 4.2
4 4.9 MEDIAN = 4.15

MODE = 4.1
Conclusion/s:

 Based from the grouped data, there are 7 newly planted corn plants that grew about
0.8 to 1.8 cm after a week;

 On the second grouped data, it is shown that there are 5 newly planted corn plants that
grew about 2.2 to 2.4 cm after a week;

 While people can see from the third grouped data that the 8 newly planted corn plant
grew about 3.1 to 4.0 cm each within 7 days;

 Last grouped data reflects about 4 newly planted corn plants grew between 4.1 to 4.9
cm each after one week. In connection, taking a look in ungrouped data, it is difficult to
identify how many newly planted corn plants have grown to a fixed range of
centimeters compared to class intervals shown in the grouped data.