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NUEVA ECIJA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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CAS Mathematics and Sciences Department

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Mathematics in the Modern World

First Semester - A.Y. 2022-2023

GENERAL DIRECTION: In a bondpaper, solve the following completely and neatly. Write the given, solutions and box
(or highlight) the final answer for the computations.
This problem set will be recorded as a quiz and activity. Fifty percent of the total score is for the quiz and 50% is for
the activity.

I. Identification. Identify the category of the given. Follow the certain instructions before the items
For items 1-5, write qualitative if the given is an example of qualitative variable, write quantitative
otherwise.
1. Number of exams a student took every semester.
2. Amount of time spent on Facebook app.
3. Topics under math in the modern world.
4. Stocks exchange rate.
5. Likert scale.
For items 6-10, write discrete if the given is an example of discrete variable, write continuous otherwise.
6. Time taken to read a module.
7. Number of students who passed their math test.
8. Length of fish caught in a certain stream.
9. Raw score in GE4.
10. Grade received from a college subject in NEUST.
For items 11-15, identify the sample and population in each item.
11. The newspaper USA Today published a health survey, and some readers completed the survey and
returned it.
12. A Gallup poll of 1012 randomly surveyed adults found that 9% of them said cloning of humans should be
allowed.
13. Some people responded to this request: “Dial 1-900-PRO-LIFE to participate in a telephone poll on
abortion. ($1.95 per minute. Average call: 2 minutes. You must be 18 years old.)”
14. America Online asked subscribers to respond to this question: “Which slogan do you hate the most?”
Responders were given several slogans used to promote car sales, and Volkswagon’s slogan received
55% of the 33,160 responses. The Volkswagon slogan was “Relieves gas pains.”

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15. The undergraduates were tasked to volunteer for a psychology research study, but only 300 of them
were selected.
II. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION TABLE.

A class of 50 student took an 80-item test and their scores are as follows:

53 28 29 76 57 25 79 38 40 58

63 46 48 35 39 65 41 33 80 71

51 78 54 45 51 50 57 71 52 70

69 42 60 77 64 84 33 58 77 55

44 36 80 51 75 41 47 30 52 74

1. Arrange the data in array.

2. Arrange the data in Stem-and-Leaf Diagram
3. Construct a Frequency Distribution Table (FDT) having the following parts: class, frequency, class mark,
class boundary, relative frequency, less than cumulative frequency and greater than cumulative
frequency.
4. From the FDT, present the data in bar graph.

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III. MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY.

IV. MESURES OF DISPERSION.

Nothing follows-------------------------

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