Week 3_ Questions for Central Tendency Measures

Q1. A lecturer relies on his students in terms of not cheating in online-exams.

However, she still wants to support this naïve thought with some statistics.
Considering her past 10-years in-class exam grades, she gets mean, median and
mode as 64, 60 and 50, respectively. The grouped data for the online exam is
given as:

Grades Frequen
cy
20-<30 1
30-<40 2
40-<50 3
50-<60 4
60-<70 11
70-<80 18
80-<90 63
90-<100 107

Calculate cumulative frequency, relative frequency, cumulative relative

frequency, mean, median, and mode? Based on the shape of distribution and the
other statistics, shall he rely on her students?

Q2. The University of Descriptive admission office receive all submitted

applications for a graduate program. The admission committee use GPA of
applicants as a first elimination step, so they summarize frequency table for
GPAs for both national and international applicants.

a. Draw the histogram of the GPA distribution of national students.

b. Draw the histogram of the GPA distribution of international students.
c. Calculate the mean, median, mode of the GPA distribution of the national
students and international students.
 GPA National International
2.40 and under 2.60 3 5
2.60 and under 2.80 17 13
2.80 - < 3.00 18 19
3.00 - < 3.20 28 21
3.20 - < 3.40 20 18
3.40 - < 3.60 15 14
3.60 - < 3.80 6 9
3.80 - < 4.00 4 7
Total 111 106

Q3. The marketing director of a company manufacturing small disk drives for
notebook computers has collected the following daily production data from
randomly selected days of last year:

a. Draw an ogive graph.

b. What is the arithmetic mean of daily production?
c. What is the median value and mode value?

Q4. Find monthly inflation rates of Turkey from consumer price index (TUFE)
by Turkstat from January 2021 to October 2021. Calculate average monthly
inflation rate.