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This document contains 4 tutorials with frequency distribution tables and questions about interpreting the data in histograms and frequency polygons. Tutorial 1 shows the number of packages shipped per day by Molly's Candle Shop. Tutorial 2 shows the settlement amounts of insurance claims. Tutorial 3 shows the frequent flier miles earned by employees of a consulting firm. Tutorial 4 shows the lead times for filling online orders. The tutorials ask questions about calculating midpoints, class frequencies, constructing histograms and frequency polygons, and interpreting the data.

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This document contains 4 tutorials with frequency distribution tables and questions about interpreting the data in histograms and frequency polygons. Tutorial 1 shows the number of packages shipped per day by Molly's Candle Shop. Tutorial 2 shows the settlement amounts of insurance claims. Tutorial 3 shows the frequent flier miles earned by employees of a consulting firm. Tutorial 4 shows the lead times for filling online orders. The tutorials ask questions about calculating midpoints, class frequencies, constructing histograms and frequency polygons, and interpreting the data.

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1. Molly’s Candle Shop has several retail stores in the coastal areas of North and South
Carolina. Many of Molly’s customers ask her to ship their purchases. The following
chart shows the number of packages shipped per day for the last 100 days.

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23
frekuency
1
13 8 10
5
3

Number of packages

a. What is this chart called?


b. What is the total number of frequencies?
c. What is the class interval?
d. What is the class frequency for the 10 up to 15 class?
e. What is the relative frequency of the 10 up to 15 class?
f. What is the midpoint of the 10 up to 15 class?
g. On how many days were there 25 or more packages shipped?

2. The audit staff of Southeast Fire and Casualty, Inc.recently completed completed a
study of the settlement amount, in $000, of claims. The staff report included the
following chart.
a. What is the midpoint of the 2 up to 4 class?
b. How many claims were in the 2.0 up to 4.0 class?
c. Approximately how many claims were studied?
d. What is the class interval?
e. What is this chart called?

3. The following frequency distribution reports the number of frequent flier miles,
reported in thousands,for employees of Burnley Statistical Consulting, Inc.during the
first quarter of 2004.
Frequent Filer Number of
Miles employes
0 up to 3 5
3 up to 6 12
6 up to 9 23
9 up to 12 8
12 up to 15 2
Total 50

a. How many employees were studied?


b. What is the midpoint of the first class?
c. Construct a histogram?
d. A frequency polygon is to be drawn. What are the coordinates of the plot for the
first class?
e. Construct a frequency polygon
f. Interpret the frequent flier miles accumulated using two charts.

4. Ecommerce. Com. A large internet retailer, is studying the lead time (elapsetime
between when an order is placed and when it is filled) for sample of recent orders.
The lead times are reported in days.
Lead time(days) Frequency
0 up to 6 6
5 up to 10 7
10 up to 15 12
15 up to 20 8
20 up to 25 7
Total 40
a. How many orders were studied ?
b. What is the midpoint of the first class?
c. What are the coordinates of the first class for a frequency polygon?
d. Draw a histogram?
e. Draw a frequency polygon?
f. Interpret the lead time using the two charts.

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