DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
STAT 2102
1st Semester 2025-2026
Exercise 1
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I. A researcher randomly selects 5 students enrolled in the subject Stat 1200. She wants to determine their
weekly allowances during their 1st semester and 2nd semester.
Student 1st sem Allowance(P/week) 2nd sem Allowance (P/week)
Student 1 1000 1500
Student 2 1500 1500
Student 3 800 1000
Student 4 1000 1250
Student 5 2000 1750
Determine the following whether it is a data, data set, variable, an element/unit, or an observation.
1. Student 4
2. 1750
3. Student 1, 1st sem Allowance (P/week): 1000, 2nd sem Allowance (P/week): 1500
4. 2nd sem Allowance (P/week):
5. 1500,1500,1000,1250,1750
II. For each variable, identify the type, kind, and level of measurement. For the type of variable, classify
whether qualitative, quantitative discrete, and quantitative continuous. For the level of measurement,
classify whether nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. (2 answers will be needed: 1 for the type of variable
and 1 for the level of measurement)
Variable Type Level
1) GPA
2) Monthly income
3) Gender
4) Number of Employees
5) Position in the Company
III. Expand the following summation notation:
1.
2.
3. 3
4.
5.
Express the following in summation notation:
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. 5c
Using the dataset below, solve for the following summation notation:
i 1 2 3 4 5 6
X 0 1 2 3 4 5
Y 1 3 5 3 1 2
11.
12. 3
13.
14.
15.