Problem 1
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
Given the set of scores above, construct a frequency distribution table.
Scores arranged in ascending order:
150 150 151 152 153 153 153 154 154 154
Highest score = 173
154 154 156 156 158 158 158 159 159 159
Lowest score = 150
159 160 160 161 161 161 161 161 162 162 Range = 23
162 162 162 164 164 165 165 165 165 166 K = 7 i
166 167 168 168 168 170 170 171 172 173 = 4
Solutions: Frequency Table:
𝑅 = ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 − 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 Heights of 50 Students
𝑅 = 173 − 150
𝑅 = 23 Class Limits f Class Boundaries Class Marks cf
170 - 173 5 169.5 - 173.5 181.5 50
𝐾 = 1 + 3.322𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑁 166 - 169 6 165.5 - 169.5 167.5 45
𝐾 = 1 + 3.322log(50) 162 - 165 11 161.5 - 165.5 163.5 39
𝐾 = 6.643978 ≈ 7 158 - 161 14 157.5 - 161.5 159.5 28
154 - 157 7 153.5 - 157.5 155.5 14
𝑅
150 - 153 7 149.5 - 153.5 151.5 7
𝑖=
N= 50
𝐾
𝑖
𝑖 = 3.285714 ≈ 4
Problem 2
The scores (out of 100) obtained by 33 students in a mathematics test are as follows:
69, 48, 84, 58, 48, 73, 83, 48, 66, 58, 84, 66, 64, 71, 64, 66, 69, 66, 83, 66, 69, 71, 81, 71, 73, 69, 66, 66, 64,
58, 64, 69, 69
Represent this data in the form of a frequency distribution.
Scores arranged in ascending order:
Highest score = 84
48 48 48 58 58 58 64 64 64 64 66 Lowest score = 48
66 66 66 66 66 66 69 69 69 69 69 Range = 36
K=7
69 71 71 71 73 73 81 83 83 84 84
i=6
Solutions: Frequency Table:
𝑅 = ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 − 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 Scores of 33 Students in a Mathematics Test
𝑅 = 84 − 48
𝑅 = 36 Class Limits f Class Boundaries Class Marks cf
84 - 89 2 83.5 - 89.5 86.5 33
𝐾 = 1 + 3.322𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑁
𝐾 = 1 + 3.322log(33) 78 - 83 3 77.5 - 83.5 80.5 31
𝐾 = 6.0445 ≈ 7 72 - 77 2 71.5 - 77.5 74.5 28
66 - 71 16 65.5 - 71.5 68.5 26
𝑅
60 - 65 4 59.5 - 65.5 62.5 10
𝑖=
𝐾 54 - 59 3 53.5 - 59.5 56.5 6
48 - 53 3 47.5 - 53.5 50.5 3
𝑖
N = 33
𝑖 = 5.14286 ≈ 6
Problem 3
The following are the marks (out of 100) of 60 students in mathematics.
16, 13, 5, 80, 86, 7, 51, 48, 24, 56, 70, 19, 61, 17, 16, 36, 34, 42, 34, 35, 72, 55, 75, 31, 52, 28,72, 97, 74, 45,
62, 68, 86, 35, 85, 36, 81, 75, 55, 26, 95, 31, 7, 78, 92, 62, 52, 56, 15, 63,25, 36, 54, 44, 47, 27, 72, 17, 4, 30.
Construct a grouped frequency distribution table with width 10 of each class starting from 0 – 9.
Scores arranged in ascending order:
4 5 7 7 13 15 16 16 17 17 19 24 Highest score = 97
25 26 26 27 28 30 31 31 34 34 35 35 Lowest score = 4
Range = 93
36 36 36 42 44 45 47 48 51 52 52 54
K = 10 i = 10
55 55 56 61 62 62 63 68 70 72 72 72
74 75 75 78 80 81 85 86 86 92 95 97 Solutions: Frequency
Table:
𝑅 = ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 − 𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 Marks of 60 Students in Mathematics
𝑅 = 97 − 4
𝑅 = 93 Class Limits f Class Boundaries Class Marks cf
90 - 99 3 89.5 - 99.5 94.5 60
80 - 89 5 79.5 - 89.5 84.5 57
70 - 79 8 69.5 - 79.5 74.5 52
60 - 69 5 59.5 - 69.5 64.5 44
50 - 59 7 49.5 - 59.5 54.5 39
40 - 49 5 39.5 - 49.5 44.5 32
30 - 39 10 29.5 - 39.5 34.5 27
20 - 29 6 19.5 - 29.5 24.5 17
10 - 19 7 9.5 - 19.5 14.5 11
0- 9 4 -0.5 - 9.5 4.5 4
N=60