Chapter 2
Chapter 2
2. According to the Air Transport Association of South Africa, OR Tambo Airlines led all S.A.
carriers in the number of passengers flown in the recent year. The top 5 airlines were Cape
Town International Airport, George Airport, Kimberley Airport, and King Shaka International
Airport. The number of passengers flown (in thousands) by each of these airlines follows:
Airline Passengers
OR Tambo 103 133
Cape Town 84 203
George Airport 81 083
Kimberley 58 659
King Shaka 55 946
3. Research International reports that in a recent year, Huggies was the top selling diaper
brand in South Africa with 41.3% of the market share. Other leading brands included
Pampers with 25.6%, Luvs with 12.1%, Drypers with 3.3%, Fitti with 0.9%, and private labels
with 15.8% of the market share. Use this information to construct a pie chart of the diaper
market shares.
4. Construct a stem and leaf plot using the key 234 = 23|4 for the following data.
212 239 240 218 222 249 265 224 257 271 266 234 239 219 255 260 243 261 249 230
246 263 235 229 218 238 254 249 250 263 229 221 253 227 270 257 261 238 240 239
273 220 226 239 258 259 230 262 255 226
5. The following data represent the number of passengers per flight in a sample of 50 fights
from Durban to Port Elizabeth.
23 46 66 67 13 58 19 17 65 17 25 20 47 28 16 38 44 29 48 29 69 34 35 60 37 52 80 59
51 33 48 46 23 38 52 50 17 57 41 77 45 47 49 19 32 64 27 61 70 19
a) Construct a stem and leaf plot for the data. What does the stem and leaf plot tell you
about the number of passengers per flight?
b) construct a frequency distribution from the raw data
6. Complete the following frequency distribution table and then construct the histogram and
frequency polygon.
7. The heights of a sample of seedlings in a recently sown field were measured. The ogive
below was constructed using the height data collected.
9. The number of traffic tickets issued by a certain police department in a 7-day period was
a) Find the mean and standard deviation for the above data.
b) Find the coefficient of variation and explain what this tells us.
c) Find the first and third quartiles, and the median for the above data.
d) For Question (a) to (c), Microsoft Excel command used.
e) Are there any outliers?
f) Draw the box plot for the above data.
11. In a wildlife study, it is found that the average speed of the Cheetah is 60km/h with a
standard deviation of 4km/h. What proportion of Cheetahs will have a speed
a) between 50 and 60 km/h?
b) less than or equal to 50 km/h or greater than or equal to 60 km/h?
c) Find the interval of speed that will contain approximately 95% of data values.