Describing Data

Frequency Distribution and Graphic Presentation

Exercise 2

1. Recently a survey was done to gather information on regular payment method of

customers at a supermarket in Ipoh. See table below:

Cash Cash Credit Card Cash Credit Card Charge Card

Credit Card Credit Card Credit Card Credit Card Credit Card Charge Card
Charge Card Charge Card Credit Card Cash Cash Credit Card
Cash Credit Card Cash Charge Card Cash Credit Card
Credit Card Cash Cash Credit Card Credit Card Credit Card

[a] What type of data is payment method (qualitative or quantitative)?

[b] Create a frequency distribution table for the data above.

Type of Payment Frequency

Total

2. Blue Skies Travel and Tours recently surveyed 50 business executives to determine
the number of times these executives made business trips by air six months. The
following data were observed:
1 3 0 1 2 1 1 1 2 1
4 2 3 1 3 2 3 3 0 2
3 0 2 4 1 2 3 2 5 0
1 3 5 2 2 4 3 1 3 3
2 4 1 5 2 3 3 2 4 3
[a] What type of data is “number of trips by air”
i. Qualitative or quantitative; discrete or continuous
iii. Nominal or ordinal or interval or ratio

[b] Construct a frequency table for the data above.

Trips Frequency Cumulative Relative

Frequency Frequency

Total
3. A data set has 250 observations. The maximum value in the data set is 2500, and
the minimum value is 700.
[a] Use Sturges’s rule to determine the number of classes that you will use: _____
[b] Based on the number of classes determined, indicate the class interval: ______
[c] Show the class limits for the first 3 classes:
__________ to __________
__________ to __________
__________ to __________
*Sturges’s rule: classes = 1 + 3.322 log (n)
where n is the number of data collected
4. Miss Muffin Bistro makes much of its revenue during the weekends. Below are the
revenue earned for the last five months.

Weekend Revenue
10600 11200 11200 10800 12480
10700 10300 10800 11300 11600
12100 11500 10200 11890 11450
11500 10200 10400 12000 10800
10000 10300 11600 10600 10900
[a] What type of data is “Weekend Revenue” (Nominal, ordinal, interval or
ratio)?
[b] Create a frequency distribution table using the data given (remember the steps
to creating a frequency distribution table).

Revenue Frequency Cumulative Relative Cumulative

Frequency Frequency Relative
Frequency

Total

5. Refer to Question ONE.

Draw a Bar Chart using the frequency distribution table you created.

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6. Refer to Question FOUR.
Draw a HISTOGRAM using the frequency distribution table you created.

7. Refer to Question FOUR.

Draw a OGIVE using the frequency distribution table you created.
8. Below is the number of SMS sent by hand phone users in a week. These
respondents were randomly picked to answer our survey.

15 44 33 36 12 24 45
18 26 22 26 22 16 25
25 42 23 35 24 33 21
36 23 31 11 13 22 35
24 21 25 13 42 14 44
19 33 33 32 40 37 18

Create a Stem-and-Leaf display based on the data above.