HAWASSA UNIVERSITY

Collage of natural and computational science

Department of Statistics
Basic Statistics Assignment 1 for Geology

1. What are the uses of statistics for Geology?

2. In each of the following statements, tell whether descriptive or inferential statistics
have been used.
a. Drinking decaffeinated coffee can raise cholesterol levels by 7%.
b. Allergy therapy makes bees go away.
c. The national average annual medicine expenditure per person is $1052.
d. Experts say that mortgage rates may soon hit bottom.
e. Nine out of ten on-the-job fatalities are men.
3. Classify each as nominal-level, ordinal-level, interval level, or ratio-level measurement.
a. Temperatures inside 10 refrigerators.
b. Salaries of the top five CEOs in the United States.
c. Ratings of eight local plays (poor, fair, good, and excellent).
d. Times required for mechanics to do a tune-up.
e. Ages of students in a classroom.
f. Marital status of patients in a physician’s office.
4. Classify each variable as qualitative or quantitative.
a. Capacity in cubic feet of six truck beds.
b. Colors of baseball caps in a store.
c. Number of bicycles sold in 1 year by a large sporting goods store.
5. Suppose the data collected for heights (in cm) of 390 men were tabulated in a frequency
distribution and the following results were obtained.

Determine:
a) The width of the class intervals b) The class limits
c) Class boundaries d) Class marks.
e) The less than frequency distribution
5. The ages of the Vice Presidents of the United States at the time of their death are listed below.

i. Construct a frequency distribution for the data using k= 6 classes and show the rest
necessary step.
ii. Construct a histogram, a frequency polygon, and an ogive for the data.