University of Kasdi Merbah Ouargla

Faculty of New Technologies of Info & Communication

Worksheet 01:

Exercise 0.1 A group of twenty students were asked to determine how many hours they revised
each day. Their responses are listed in hours as follows:

5, 6, 3, 3, 2, 4, 7, 5, 2, 3, 5, 6, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 2, 5, 3.

1. Find the frequencies ni , the relative frequencies fi and the percentages pi of the data set.

2. Find the Increasing Cumulative Frequency (ICF) and the Increasing Cumulative Relative
Frequency (ICRF) of the data set.

Exercise 0.2 40 professors were asked: ”how many hours they worked per week?”. Their re-
sponses are listed in hours as follows:

10,10, 12,12, 6, 6,7,7,4,4, 8,8,14,14,10,10,12,12, 10,10,8,8,6,6;10,

1. Find the frequencies ni , the relative frequencies fi and the percentages pi of the data set.

2. Find the Increasing Cumulative Frequency (ICF) and the Increasing Cumulative Relative
Frequency (ICRF) of the data set.

Exercise 0.3 120 students were asked on their grades in first semester, and their responses are
listed in the following table:

Grades Bad Very Bad Medium Good Very Good Excellent Total Number
xi 4 5 24 36 25 26 120

1. Find the frequencies ni and the relative frequencies of the data set.

2. Find the Increasing Cumulative Frequency (ICF) and the Increasing Cumulative Relative
Frequency (ICRF) of the data set.

3. Construct a the cartesian representation (bar chart) to represent the above data.

4. Draw the circular diagram (pie chart) to illustrate this information.

Exercise 0.4 Consider the representation data of 200 persons according to their favorite sports.

Number of persons Football Basketball Handball Tennis Swimming Total Number

1. Find the frequencies ni and the relative frequencies of the data set.
 2. Find the Increasing Cumulative Frequency (ICF) and the Increasing Cumulative Relative
Frequency (ICRF) of the data set.

3. Construct a the cartesian representation (bar chart) to represent the above data.

4. Draw the circular diagram (pie chart) to illustrate this information.

Exercise 0.5 What is the type of the statistical variables in the following cases:

• Eyes colors.

• The number of houses in a village.

• Distances.

• Nationalities.

• Number of children per family.

• The weight of cars.

• The salary of employees in a bank.

Exercise 0.6 We measured the heights of a group of people in centimeters and we get the following
results:
153 165 160 150 159 151 163 160 158 149
154 153 163 140 158 150 158 155 163 159
157 162 160 152 164 158 153 162 166 162
165 152 158 164 164 162 158 156 171 164
158 157 174 158 171 162 155 156 159 162

1. What is the type of this statistical variable?

2. Find the frequencies and the relative frequencies of this data set.

3. Find the Increasing Cumulative Frequency (ICF) and the Decreasing Cumulative Frequency
(DCF) of the data set.

4. Find the Increasing Cumulative Relative Frequency (ICRF) and the Decreasing Cumulative
Relative Frequency (ICRF) of the data set.

Exercise 0.7 The following table displays the annual rainfall amounts measured in inches for a
sample of towns.

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 Rainf all(Inches) Frequency
[2.95, 4.97[ 6
[4.97, 6.99[ 7
[6.99, 9.01[ 15
[9.01, 11.03[ 8
[11.03, 13.05[ 9
[13.05, 15.07[ 5
Total 50

1. What is the type of this statistical variable?

2. Find the frequencies and the relative frequencies of this data set.

3. Draw the frequency graph to represent this data set.

4. Draw the cumulative frequency graph to represent this data set.

Exercise 0.8 This table below show the temperature recorded in a city per month.

temperature N. of month
[6, 20[ 3
[20, 26[ 5
[26, 34[ 4
Total 12

1. What is the type of this statistical variable?

2. Find the frequencies and the relative frequencies of this data set.

3. Draw the frequency graph to represent this data set.

Exercise 0.9 A traffic inspector has counted the number of cars passing a certain point in 100
successive days. The results are listed in the table below.

23 20 16 18 30 22 26 15 5 18
14 17 11 37 21 6 10 20 22 25
19 19 19 20 12 23 24 17 18 16
27 16 28 26 15 29 19 35 20 17
12 30 21 22 20 15 18 16 23 24
15 24 28 19 24 22 17 19 8 18
17 18 23 21 25 19 20 22 21 21
16 20 19 11 23 17 23 13 17 26
26 14 15 16 27 18 21 24 33 20
21 27 18 22 17 20 14 21 22 19

1. What is the type of this statistical variable?

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 2. Find the frequencies and the relative frequencies of this data set.

3. Draw the frequency graph to represent this data set.

4. Draw the cumulative frequency graph to represent this data set.

Exercise 0.10 This table below show the birth weights (in g) of 200 babies.

weights (g) Frequency

1. What is the type of this statistical variable?

2. Find the frequencies and the relative frequencies of this data set.

3. Draw the frequency graph to represent this data set.

4. Draw the cumulative frequency graph to represent this data set.