Tutorial 2 Worksheet

Question 1
A company conducted a survey to see how strongly employees agreed or disagreed with the current
management style in comparison to the previous year’s management style. The results of the survey
are given below:

2001 2002
strongly
disagree strongly agree Agree strongly disagree strongly agree
Agree strongly disagree strongly disagree Neutral strongly agree
Neutral Neutral strongly disagree Agree Agree
Agree strongly agree strongly agree strongly agree agree
Disagree Agree Agree strongly disagree agree
strongly
disagree Neutral strongly agree strongly agree disagree
Disagree Agree Agree strongly agree strongly agree
Agree Agree strongly agree strongly agree neutral
Disagree disagree strongly agree strongly agree strongly agree
Neutral disagree Agree strongly agree
Agree strongly disagree Agree strongly agree
Neutral strongly disagree strongly agree neutral
Neutral Disagree strongly agree

1. Identify the data type and measurement scale.

2. Summarise the data by constructing the following:
a. A frequency distribution
b. A relative frequency distribution
3. What was the modal category for each of the years?

Question 2
Suppose we are interested in investigating the difference between the number of hours slept on
weeknights for two generations. A random sample of 40 Y-ers (Generation Y’ers (Millennials):
Born: 1980 – 1995) and 20 Z-ers (Generation Z’ers: Born: 1996 →) were asked the number of
hours they sleep on a randomly chosen weeknight (minutes were converted to a fraction of an
hour). The results are summarised in the following back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram:
Weeknight hours slept
Leaf unit = 0.1
Generation Y Generation Z
9 8 8 6 6 5 6
9 8 8 8 8 8 6 6 6 5 5 5 6 6 7
9 8 8 6 3 3 2 2 2 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 6 8 8 9
9 9 9 8 8 6 6 6 5 0 0 8 0 0 5 7 7 7 8 8 8
9 2

1. What is the variable of interest in this study?

2. What are the elements in this study?
Question 3
A doctor's office staff studied the waiting times for patients who arrive at the office with a request for
an emergency service. The following data with waiting times (in minutes) were collected:

2 5 10 12 4 4 5 17 11 8
9 8 12 21 6 8 7 13 18 3

1. Calculate all missing (?) values in the table.

Relative Cumulative % Cumulative
Classes Frequency %Frequency
Frequency Frequency Frequency
(1 – 5] 6 ? ? ≤5 6 0,3
(5– 9] 6 0,3 30 ≤9 12 0,6
(9 –? ] 5 0,25 25 ≤ 13 17 ?
(? – 17] 1 0,05 5 ≤ ? 18 0,9
(17 – 21] 2 0,1 10 ≤ 21 ? 1
Total: ? 1 100
2. How many classes are represented in the table?
3. What is the class width?
4. Construct the ogive for the waiting time for patients using cumulative frequencies.

Ogive for Waiting time (in minutes) for patients

25

20

15

10

0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Question 4
Consider the bar chart below on the number of litres of milk 25 families bought:

Number of Litres milk bought by 25 families

0,4 0,36
Relative frequency

0,3
0,2 0,2
0,2
0,12
0,08
0,1 0,04
0
0 1 2 3 4 5
Litres

1. Calculate the number of families that did not purchase any milk.
2. What proportion of the 25 families purchased more than 2 litres of milk?

Question 5
Consider the given pie chart to complete the table

Category Frequency Degrees

Human resources

Marketing

Finance

Total 50 360
Question 6
The following ogive represents the hours of personal computer usage during a week for a sample
of 60 people and is given below:

1. How many people spent less than 10 hours on their computer?

2. What percentage of people spent at least 12 hours on their computers?
3. The modal interval is approximately:
4. The upper twenty five percent of the people spent more than ____ hours on their
computer.

Question 7
Forty (40) randomly chosen first-year students were asked the amount of time (in minutes) that
they sleep on a typical weeknight. The results are presented in the following ogive:

Ogive of time slept by first year students

40 40
Cumulative Frequency

35 35
30
25 28
20
15
10 10
5 5
0 0
300 325 350 375 400 425 450 475 500 525 550
Time (minutes)

1. The data type is:

2. Is this graph based on sample or population data?
3. The measurement scale for the number of minutes slept is:
 4. The approximate number of first-year students who slept between 400 and 500 minutes is:
5. What percentage of first-year students slept at most 400 minutes?
6. 70% of students slept for less than minutes.

Question 8
The Nielsen Home Technology Report provided information about home technology and its usage.
The following data are the hours of personal computer usage during one week for a sample of 60
people.
4.1 1.5 10.4 5.9 3.4 5.7 2.6 6.1 3 3.7
3.1 4.8 2 14.8 5.4 4.2 3.9 4.1 11 3.5
4.1 4.1 8.8 5.6 4.3 3.3 7.1 10.3 6.2 7.6
10.8 2.8 9.5 12.9 12.1 0.7 4 9.2 4.4 5.7
6.2 6.1 7.7 5.9 4.7 6.1 15.7 3.1 7.1 11.1
5.8 4.7 14.2 2.8 3.2 5.4 3.7 2.4 13 10.1

Summarise the data by constructing a stem-and-leaf display.