NCERT Solutions for Class 9 Maths Chapter 14- Statistics

Statistics
Exercise 14.1

Question 1.
Give five examples of data that you can collect from your day-to-day life.
Solution
Here are five real-life examples:
● Our class has a certain number of students.
● Our school has a large number of fans.
● Our household's electricity bills for the past two years.
● The results of the election were received through television or newspapers.
● Figures from the Educational Survey on literacy rates
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Question 2.
Classify the data in Q.1 above as primary or secondary data.
Solution:
Primary data is gained when the material was gathered by the investigator herself or
himself with a specific goal in mind.
I, (ii), and (iii) primary data
Secondary data is gained when information is gathered from a source that already
has the information stored.
(IV) and secondary data (v)
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Exercise 14.2

Question 1.
The blood groups of 30 students of Class VIII are recorded as follows:
A, B, O, O, AB, O, A, O, B, A, O, B, A, O, O,
A, AB, O, A, A, O, O, AB, B, A, O, B, A, B, O.
Represent this data in the form of a frequency distribution table. Which is the most
common, and which is the rarest, blood group among these students?
Solution:
Frequency is the number of students having the same blood group. The frequency is
represented in the table or the frequency distribution table:
Blood Group Number of Students
A 9
B 6
O 12
AB 3
Total 30

The most common Blood Group is the blood group with highest frequency: O
The rarest Blood Group is the blood group with lowest frequency: AB

Question 2.
The distance (in km) of 40 engineers from their residence to their place of work
were found as follows:
5 3 10 20 25 11 13 7 12 31
19 10 12 17 18 11 32 17 16 2
7 9 7 8 3 5 12 15 18 3
12 14 2 9 6 15 15 7 6 12
Construct a grouped frequency distribution table with class size 5 for the data given
above taking the first interval as 0-5 (5 not included). What main features do you
observe from this tabular representation?
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Solution:
Since the given data is very large, we construct a grouped frequency distribution
table of class size 5. ∴, class interval will be 0-5, 5-10, 10-15, 15-20 and so on. The
data is represented in the grouped frequency distribution table as:
The classes in the table do not overlap. We also discovered that 36 of the 40
engineers' homes are less than 20 kilometers apart.

Question 3.
The relative humidity (in %) of a certain city for a month of 30 days was as follows:
98.1 98.6 99.2 90.3 86.5 95.3 92.9 96.3 94.2 95.1
89.2 92.3 97.1 93.5 92.7 95.1 97.2 93.3 95.2 97.3
96.2 92.1 84.9 90.2 95.7 98.3 97.3 96.1 92.1 89
(i) Construct a grouped frequency distribution table with classes 84 – 86, 86
– 88, etc.
(ii) Which month or season do you think this data is about?
(iii) What is the range of this data?
Solution:
(i) Due to the high amount of data, we create a grouped frequency
distribution table with a class size of 2. 84-86, 86-88, 88-90, 90-92, and so
on will be the class intervals. In the grouped frequency distribution table,
the data is displayed as follows:
Relative humidity(in percentage) Frequency
84-86 1
86-88 1
88-90 2
90-92 2
92-94 7
94-96 6
96-98 7
98-100 4
Total 30

(ii) The humidity in the data is really high. So because humidity is higher
during the rainy season, the data must be from that time period.
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(iii) A data's range is defined as the difference between the data's highest and
minimum values.
= 99.2−84.9
= 14.3

Question 4.
The heights of 50 students, measured to the nearest centimeters, have been found
to be as follows:
161 150 154 165 168 161 154 162 150 151
162 164 171 165 158 154 156 172 160 170
153 159 161 170 162 165 166 168 165 164
154 152 153 156 158 162 160 161 173 166
161 159 162 167 168 159 158 153 154 159
(i) Represent the data given above by a grouped frequency distribution
table, taking the class intervals as 160 – 165, 165 – 170, etc.
(ii) What can you conclude about their heights from the table?
Solution:
(i) A grouped frequency distribution table can be used to depict the data in
the question, using class intervals of 160 – 165, 165 – 170, and so on, as
follows:
Height (in cm) No. of Students
150-155 12
155-160 9
160-165 14
165-170 10
170-175 5
Total 50

(ii) Based on the information provided in the table, 35 students, or more than
half of the total, are under the height of 165 cm.
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Question 5.
A study was conducted to find out the concentration of sulphur dioxide in the air in
parts per million (ppm) of a certain city. The data obtained for 30 days is as follows:
0.03 0.08 0.08 0.09 0.04 0.17
0.16 0.05 0.02 0.06 0.18 0.20
0.11 0.08 0.12 0.13 0.22 0.07
0.08 0.01 0.10 0.06 0.09 0.18
0.11 0.07 0.05 0.07 0.01 0.04
(i) Make a grouped frequency distribution table for this data with class
intervals as 0.00 – 0.04, 0.04 – 0.08, and so on.
(ii) For how many days, was the concentration of Sulphur dioxide more than
0.11 parts per million?
Solution:
(i) Below is a grouped frequency distribution table for the data in the
question, with class intervals ranging from 0.00 to 0.04, 0.04 to 0.08, and
so on.
Concentration of Sulphur dioxide in air Frequency
(in ppm)
0.00-0.04 4
0.04-0.08 9
0.08-0.12 9
0.12-0.16 2
0.16-0.20 4
0.20-0.24 2
Total 30

(ii) The number of days in which the concentration of Sulphur dioxide was
more than 0.11 parts per million = 2+4+ 2 = 8
Question 6.
Three coins were tossed 30 times simultaneously. Each time the number of heads
occurring was noted down as follows:
0122123130
1311220121
3001123220
Prepare a frequency distribution table for the data given above.