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Statistics
Presentation of Data

Grouped and ungrouped data may be presented as :

Pie Charts
Frequency Histograms
Frequency Polygons
  Ogives 
Boxplots

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Statistics Units representation.

Examples

Example 1

Survey results of the ages of students in the Adult Basic Education maths classes are
shown in this frequency table.

Age Interval(yrs) Frequency

15-19 13
20-24 15
25-29 20
30-34 10
35-39  8
40-44  4
Use this data to produce a frequency histogram.
Example 2

Use the chart above and include a cumulative frequency column.  From this draw an
ogive graph.  Use the graph to find the median, lower quartile, upper quartile and
lowest and highest value.
Draw a box-plot.

Age Interval(yrs) Frequency Cumulative frequency

15-19 13 13
20-24 15 28
25-29 20 48
30-34 10 58
35-39 8 66
40-44 4 70
        Lowest Value:   15 
        Highest Value:     44   
         

        Five-number summary   
         Lowest value:    15
         25% Quartile:   21
         50% Quartile(median)   26
         75% Quartile:   36
         Highest value:    44

        Box Plot

 
 

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Problem 2
Problem 1
Ogive
Pie Chart
Age in years of twenty secondary school
Students in an Adult School were students visiting the zoo on a weekday
surveyed about the type of transport they were recorded.The results were:
use to travel to school. 12, 16, 10, 19, 17, 10, 10, 11, 11, 11, 11,
The results were: 12, 12, 11, 12, 13, 12, 14, 15, 18
walking 9, train 10, tram 6, car 12, (i)  Find the lowest and highest values. 
bicycle 3. (ii) Construct a frequency table          
Construct a pie chart with this including a cumulative frequency
information. column
(iii)  Calculate the mean age of school
students visiting the zoo.
(iv)  Construct an ogive and find 
        a)  the median age
        b)  the interquartile range of ages.

Practice Questions

Question 1 Question 2
Consumers were asked to rate the taste A doctor's office has studied the waiting
of a new diet drink as being poor (P), times for patients who arrive at the office
good (G), excellent (E).  The following with a request for emergency service. 
data were obtained: The followong data were collected over a
1-month period (the waiting times are in
G P G E G G E P G G minutes):
E G E P E E G P G G 2, 5, 10, 12, 4, 4, 5, 17, 11, 8, 9, 8,12, 21,
6, 8, 7, 13, 18, 3
P G G E E        
(i) Construct a frequency table. (i)  Find the minimum value, first
(ii) Add a relative frequency table to the quartile, median, third quartile and
table. maximum value for the data values.
(ii)  What proportion of patients needing
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of less than 10 mniutes?

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Question 3 Question 4

The price of houses sold at auction on a Primary students from a northern

particular day in two Melbourne suburbs Melbourne primary school were
is as follows: surveyed about which team in the AFL
they support. The results were as
Williamstown( Deerpark( follows:
$'s) $'s) Carlton 18, Collingwood 20, Essendon
165,000 120,000 30, 
North Melbourne 12, other 10.
365,000 98,000 Construct a pie chart with this
265,000 102,000 information.
150,000 95,000
180,000 89,000 Click to See Answer
245,000 105,000
398,000 130,000
234,000 108,000
195,000 96,000
155,000 110,000
(i)  Compare the median house price in
Williamstown with that in Deerpark.
(ii) Find the mean house price for both
suburbs.
(iii) Which is a better measure of house
prices: mean or median?
 Click to See Answer

Solution 1
Pie Chart

Transport  Number Percentage of Angle size for

Type of  students preferring PieChart
Students transport type
walking 9 22.5% of 360° = 81°

train 10 25 % of 360° = 90°

tram 6 15 % of 360° = 54°

car 12 30 % of 360° = 108°

bicycle 3 7.5 % of 360° = 27°

Total Student Population = 40

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Solution 2
Ogive

Lowest value:  10 years

Highest value:  19 years

Age of students(years) Tally Cumulative Total

attending zoo Frequency number
of
students
10 3 3 3 x 10 =
30
11 5 8 5  x 11 =
55
12 5 13 5 x 12 =
60
13 1 14 1 x 13 =
13
14 1 15 1 x 14 =
14
15 1 16 1 x 15 =
15
 16 1 17 1 x 16 =
16
17 1 18 1 x 17 =
17
18 1 19 1 x 18 =
18
19 1 20 1 x 19 =
19
  Total = 20   Total
=237
 

Median age (50th percentile) = 11.2 years

25th percentile = 10.5 years
75th percentile = 14.0 years

Interquartile range = 14.0-10.5

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      Answer to  Practice Question 1

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P 5 0.2
G 12 0.48
E 8 0.32
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25 1.0
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Answer to Practice Question 2

        2  3  4  4  5   |  5  6  7  8  8   |  |   8  9  10  11  12   |  12   13  17  18  21  
                            Q1                     Q2                           Q3
         Minimum Value:  2
        Q1  25% quartile:  5
        Median 50% quartile:  8
        Q3 75% quartile:  12
        Maximum Value:  21

        The number of patients with waiting time of less than 10 minutes is 12.

         

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Answer to Practice Question 3

        
       

Suburb Williamstown Deerpark

Median $214,500 $103,500
Mean $235,200 $105,00

The median is a better measure of house prices.

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Answer to Practice Question 4

 
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