Assignment 1
Q. No. 1.
Circle the appropriate choice for each question.
1.1 An appropriate diagram to show the frequency distribution of a continuous variable is:
(a) A histogram.
(b) A pie chart.
(c) A stem-and-leaf plot.
(d) A bar chart.
(e) A box-and-whisker plot.
1.2. An appropriate measure of central tendency for continuous data that are skewed to the
right is:
(a) The arithmetic mean.
(b) The geometric mean.
(c) The antilog of the arithmetic mean of the log-transformed data.
(d) The median.
(e) The 50th percentile.
1.3 The standard deviation:
(a) Is a measure of dispersion.
(b) Is the difference between the 5th and 95th percentiles.
(c) Is greater than the range of the observations.
(d) Measures the average deviation of the observations from the mean.
(e) Is the square of the variance.
1.4. The reference range (containing 95% of the observations) for a particular variable:
(a) Cannot be calculated if the data are skewed.
(b) May be used to determine whether or not an animal is likely to be diseased if its value for
the variable is known.
(c) Can be evaluated from a small sample of data.
(d) Is equal to the mean ± SD if the data are Normally distributed.
(e) Is equal to the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the data set.
Q. No. 2.
For each list of data, construct a frequency distribution table , using the class marks and
frequencies. Also construct, histogram, frequency curves, polygon and cumulative frequency
curve for each data.
1.
32, 45, 46, 33, 25, 58, 55, 52, 31, 29, 36, 45, 51, 56, 51, 43, 32, 29, 31, 40, 42, 30,
35, 35, 39, 47, 26, 51, 57, 55, 42, 46, 53, 42, 41, 33, 35, 38, 50, 51, 52, 37, 38, 43,
47, 44, 52, 52, 38, 32, 53, 39, 31, 49, 48, 48, 45, 43, 46, 39, 52, 49, 38. Class
Interval = 5.
2.
20, 62, 55, 58, 53, 43, 39, 23, 16, 21, 28, 53, 61, 62, 60, 50, 45, 55, 53,58, 57, 58,
58, 51, 37, 36, 29, 45, 33, 32, 26, 25, 17, 26, 29, 39, 33, 37,48, 42, 26, 47, 42, 49,
39, 40, 42, 38, 37, 30, 21, 20, 19, 29, 52, 47, 36,31, 52, 28, 37, 41, 49. Class
Interval = 8.
3.
19, 26, 23, 22, 34, 43, 41, 43, 43, 42, 39, 26, 27, 31, 42, 40, 39, 37, 33,30, 22, 19,
20, 30, 34, 34, 38, 27, 22, 29, 39, 41, 42, 45, 46, 44, 42, 47,21, 29, 22, 28, 30, 31,
43, 41, 39, 33, 34, 34, 38, 27, 22, 26, 23, 34, 32,31, 41, 42, 33. Class Interval = 3.
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1. Indicate whether each of the following variables is discrete or continuous:
a. the time requires to reach in campus.
b. the number of Pakistani couples who were married last year
c. the number of goals scored by a men's hockey team
d. the speed of a bicycle
e. your age
f. the number of subjects your school offered in this semester.
g. the length of time of a telephone call
h. the annual income of an individual
i. the number of employees in University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
j. the number of brothers and sisters you have
k. the distance between your house and school
l. the number of pages in a dictionary
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4.1. A wind blew for 40 days. Its wind speeds, in knots, were recorded as follows:
15, 22, 14, 12, 21, 34, 19, 11, 13, 0, 16, 4, 23, 8, 12, 18, 24, 17, 14, 3, 10, 12, 9, 15, 20, 5, 19, 13,
17, 11, 16, 19, 24, 12, 7, 14, 17, 10, 14, 23
Prepare an ordered stem and leaf plot for the data.
4.2. Thirty people were surveyed to find out how often they went to the movie theatre in one
year. The results are as follows:
21, 35, 27, 2, 18, 25, 10, 4, 43, 14, 29, 24, 15, 9, 26, 31, 41, 1, 28, 38, 40, 22, 37, 26, 19, 0, 33,
12, 16, 23
a. Prepare an ordered stem and leaf plot of these data.
b. Expand the stem and leaf plot by using five-unit class intervals.
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1. Draw a simple bar diagram to represent the following statistics relating to the earning of a
business house.
Years 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Rs (in Lakhs) 244 222 184 234 258 265
2. Represent the following data relating to the values of imports and exports during four years by
a suitable diagram:
Years 2009 2010 2011 2012
Export 610 955 660 565
Imports 624 742 578 527
[Link] the following data of expenditure of an average working-class family by a Pie
Diagram.
Items of expenditure 2012 2013
Food 1070 2670
Clothing 829 1443
Fuel 108 274
Miscellaneous 313 515
4. Construct a component bar diagram for the following data represent the yield of paddy
( in thousands of tons) in recent years.
Years Lahore Faisalabad Total
2008 85 87 172
2009 91 95 186
2010 95 103 198
2011 101 106 207
2012 103 107 210
Dr. Muhammad Kashif
Lecturer (Statistics)
