STA1510/201/0/2023

Tutorial Letter 201/0/2023

Basic Statistics
STA1510

Year module

Department of Statistics

SOLUTIONS TO ASSIGNMENT 01
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SOLUTIONS TO ASSIGNMENT 01

Question 1
Nominal data
Option (3)

Question 2
Qualitative data
Option (5)

Question 3

6 months have ‘27 but less than 36’ number of registrations.

𝑓𝑓 𝐹𝐹

2 2

0 2

4 6

6 12

𝑛𝑛 = 12

Option (1)

Question 4
A pie chart.
Option (3)

Question 5

9.09% (1 out of 11) of all male shoppers prefer to shop at Spar.

Option (1)

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Question 6

Only 10 shoppers (30 × 33.33%) of the sampled shoppers prefer to do their grocery shopping at
checkers.
Option (2)

Question 7

∑ 𝑋𝑋 34+28+37+⋯+40 378
A. 𝑋𝑋� = 𝑛𝑛 𝑖𝑖 = = = 37.8.
10 10
35+37
B. Median = 2
= 36.
∑(𝑋𝑋−𝑋𝑋� )2 (34−37.8)2+⋯+(40−37.8)2
C. 𝑠𝑠 2 = 𝑛𝑛−1 = = 71.9556 so 𝑆𝑆 = √𝑆𝑆 2 = √71.9556 = 8.48.
10−1
D. Mode is the number that appears more than other numbers: Mode = 40.
𝑆𝑆 8.48
E. 𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶 = � × 100% = × 100% = 22.44%
𝑋𝑋 37.8

Option (1)

Question 8

A. 25𝑡𝑡ℎ percentile = 𝑄𝑄1

𝑄𝑄1𝑡𝑡ℎ = 0.25(𝑛𝑛 + 1 = 0.25(11) = 2.75𝑡𝑡ℎ position ranked value

∴ Round 2.75 to 3 and use the 3rd ranked value

∴ 𝑄𝑄1 = 132
.

(155+170)
B. Median = 2
= 162.50.
∑ 𝑥𝑥 125+140+⋯+310
C. 𝑋𝑋� = 𝑛𝑛 𝑖𝑖 = = 176.70.
10−110
D. Range = 310 − 125 = 185.
∑(𝑋𝑋𝑖𝑖 −𝑋𝑋�)2 (125−176.7)2 +⋯+(310−176.6)2
E. Standard deviation � =� = 58.14
𝑛𝑛−1 10−1

Option (1)

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Question 9
∑ 𝑋𝑋𝑖𝑖 294 294
𝑋𝑋� = 14 = ∴ 𝑛𝑛 = = 21
𝑛𝑛 𝑛𝑛 14
There are 21 data values in the data set.
Option (5)

Question 10

7+9
A. Median = = 8.
2
B.

25𝑡𝑡ℎ percentile or 𝑄𝑄1

𝑛𝑛 + 1
𝑄𝑄1𝑡𝑡ℎ = ranked data
4
8+1
=
4
= 2.25

Round 2.25 to 2𝑛𝑛𝑛𝑛 ranked data.

∴ 𝑄𝑄1 = 4

C. 𝑄𝑄3𝑡𝑡ℎ = 0.75(𝑛𝑛 + 1) ranked data = 0.75(8 + 1) = 6.75.

𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅 6.75 to 7𝑡𝑡ℎ ranked data

∴ 𝑄𝑄3 = 14.

∑ 𝑋𝑋 4+14+⋯+10
D. Mean = 𝑋𝑋� = 𝑛𝑛 𝑖𝑖 = = 9.5.
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E. Interquartile range (IQR) = 𝑄𝑄3 − 𝑄𝑄1 = 14 − 4 = 10.

Option (3)