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Descriptive Statistics Tutorial Guide

The document is a tutorial on descriptive statistics, providing exercises for calculating mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, and skewness for various datasets. It includes data on durians sold, credit hours taken by students, days off in different countries, working experience in a company, weight of female workers, and miles run by female runners. Each section requires the reproduction of tables, drawing of histograms, and comparison of variability between different groups.

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Descriptive Statistics Tutorial Guide

The document is a tutorial on descriptive statistics, providing exercises for calculating mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, and skewness for various datasets. It includes data on durians sold, credit hours taken by students, days off in different countries, working experience in a company, weight of female workers, and miles run by female runners. Each section requires the reproduction of tables, drawing of histograms, and comparison of variability between different groups.

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TUTORIAL 3
1. The following data represents the number of durians sold by a fruit-seller for 14 days.

71 93 125 73 125 162 122


82 77 139 85 105 131 125

a. Find the mean.

b. Find the median

c. Find the mode

d. By comparing measure of central tendency obtained in (a) – (c), state the


shape of the distribution.

2. The following data shows credit hours taken by 10 students during the first year of
their program.

17 18 21 18 20 19 22 21 18 24

a. Find the mean.

b. Find the median

c. Calculate the variance.

d. By comparing measure of central tendency obtained in (a) & (b), state the
shape of the distribution.

3. The following data represents the number of days off in a year for a sample of
individuals among nine different countries.

20 26 40 36 23 42 35 24 23

a. Find the mean.

b. Find the mode

c. Calculate the standard deviation

d. Determine the coefficient of skewness, hence state the shape of the


distribution.

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4. The distribution of the years of working experience among employees in company


XYZ is given in the table below.

Working experience Number of Mid-point Cumulative


(years) employees (x) frequency
1–4 16
5–8 20
9 – 12 28
13 – 16 24
17 – 20 16
21 – 24 11
25 – 28 5

a. Reproduce the above table and fill in the blanks.

b. Draw a histogram from the above data.

c. Using the histogram drawn in (ii), estimate the mode.

d. Calculate the mean for the data above.

e. Calculate the standard deviation for the years of working experience.

f. The mean and standard deviation of working experience for ABC


company is 6 years and 12.5 years respectively. Which
company has greater variability in working experience.

5. The weight of 50 female workers in a factory is shown in table below.

Weight (kg) Number of female workers


41 – 45 5
46 – 50 7
51 – 55 18
56 – 60 15
61 – 65 5

a. Find the mean weight of female workers.

b. Draw an ogive, hence estimate the median from the ogive drawn.

c. Calculate the mode for the data.

d. Find the standard deviation.

e. Calculate the coefficient of skewness.

f. By using value in (iv), comment on the shape of distribution.

g. The mean weight of male workers is 65.5 kg with standard


deviation of 7.75 kg. Using appropriate measurement, determine
who has more consistency in weight.

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6. The data shows the number of miles run in a week for a sample of 20 female runners.

Number of miles Number of runner


6 – 10 1
11 – 15 2
16 – 20 3
21 – 25 5
26 – 30 4
31 – 35 3
36 – 40 2

a. Find mean for the above data.

b. Construct a histogram for the data given.

c. By using histogram drawn in (b), determine the mode.

d. Calculate standard deviation.

e. Find the median for the data.

f. Calculate the coefficient of skewness and comment on the shape of


distribution.

g. The mean number of miles run by male runner is 27 with a standard deviation
of 9.5. Using appropriate measure, which runner is more consistent?

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