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PROBABILITY & STATISTICS

ASSIGNMENT 1 ( STATISTICAL MEASURES)

CLASSES: LEVEL 100
• BSC. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
• BSC. INFORMATION SYSTEMS
• BSC. EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
• BSC. MOBILE COMPUTING

LECTURER: JOHN ESSUMAN

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 QUESTION 1
The following data are the monthly salaries of some 400 workers in
thousands of Ghana cedis in a certain gold mining company in GHANA

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The Finance Director of this Company is going for a Board Meeting
to explain this data of salaries to the board for a possible increment
for those at the lower levels. As his personal assistant, prepare a
report for him to present at the meeting by doing the following;

1. Construct a frequency table, for this data starting with the

intervals 5 – 9, 10 – 14, 15 – 19, …
2. What are the maximum and minimum salaries of the distribution.
3. Compute the Arithmetic mean of the distribution.
4. Compute the Harmonic mean of the distribution
5. What is the Geometric mean of the distribution.
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6. Compute the Standard deviation of the distribution. Comment on your results.
7. Compute the Mean deviation of the distribution. Comment on your results.
8. Compute the coefficient of variation of the distribution. Comment on your results
9. Compute the Lower Quartile of the distribution. Comment on your results
10. Compute the Median of the distribution. Comment on your results.
11. Compute the Upper quartile of the distribution. Comment on your results.
12. Compute the 90th Percentile of the distribution. Comment on your results.
13. Compute the 10th Percentile of the distribution. Comment on your results.
14. Compute the Coefficient of Skewness of the distribution. Comment on your results.
15. Compute the Coefficient of Kurtosis of the distribution. Comment on your results.
16. Compute the 8th decile of the distribution. Comment on your results.

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 QUESTION 2
The number of Male ( X ) and Female ( Y ) workers of 30 Companies are given below
Male Female
Organization (X) (Y)
1 62 73
2 45 55
3 46 46
4 67 58
5 23 25
6 53 62
7 58 64
8 38 45
9 26 31
10 43 38
11 36 47
12 63 48
13 26 35
14 48 56
15 76 85
16 45 54
17 66 58
18 72 64
19 28 36
20 84 92
21 56 48
22 38 46
23 56 65
24 92 96
25 34 46
26 42 54
27 38 46
28 68 74
29 48 56
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Using classes of 21- 30, 31- 40,… for both X and Y;

(i)Construct a Bivariate frequency distribution table
for the above data
(ii) Tabulate the Marginal frequency distribution of X and Y
Comment on your results

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