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This document contains 9 tutorial questions on summarizing and analyzing data. The questions cover topics such as classifying data by type, constructing frequency distributions, calculating measures of central tendency and dispersion, finding ranges and percentiles, and working with grouped frequency distributions. Example data sets include patient medical information, zip codes, heights, prices, exam times, farmland areas, and test scores.

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Tutorial 1

This document contains 9 tutorial questions on summarizing and analyzing data. The questions cover topics such as classifying data by type, constructing frequency distributions, calculating measures of central tendency and dispersion, finding ranges and percentiles, and working with grouped frequency distributions. Example data sets include patient medical information, zip codes, heights, prices, exam times, farmland areas, and test scores.

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Tutorial 1

1. Suppose the following information is obtained for a patient upon admittance to an Intensive
CareUnit:

Name: Ahmad bin Abu Bakar


Blood Type: AB positive
Blood Pressure: 170/120 mgs/mm
Pulse beat: 65
Temperature: 37.5 ⁰c
Previous ailment: unknown
Known allergies to medicine: no

Classify each of the information by type of data.

2. The following zip codes were obtained from the respondents to a mail survey.

15132 15130 15132 15130 15130


15130 15130 15131 15134 15133
15131 15133 15131 15133 15133
15133 15132 15133 15134 15133
Construct a frequency distribution for the data.

3. Given the raw data of height of students BWM11603 below:

175 178 175 165 168 201 173 170


175 160 163 166 175 170 192 163
173 175 162 169 193 166 171 164
178 163 188 176 178 165 188 157 175
(a) Construct a frequency distribution. Show the class limit and the class boundary.
(b) Find cumulative frequency.
(c) Construct a histogram, ogive and polygon.

4. The following data represent the price (in cents) of 100 grams of red chillies in the local market for
consecutive days.
52 51 50 50 65 55 53 55 52 47
46 44 57 58 55 51 60 62 60 58

Compute
(a) The mean, median, mode (b) The variance and standard deviation
5. The time taken by 60 students is to answer a probability question recorded as given in the table
below.
Time (minutes) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Frequency (number 2 4 21 18 10 4 1
of students)

Find the mean, median and standard deviation of the time taken by the students in answering
the questions.

6. Find the median for grouped frequency distribution below:


Class 1–2 3–4 5-6 7-8 9 - 10 11 - 12 13 - 14 15 - 16
Frequency 5 8 22 18 36 29 20 11

7. Find the mode for the grouped frequency distribution below:


Class Frequency, f
5
9
8
4
3
0
1

8. The following data give the 2000 total area of farmland (in thousands of acres) for the 10 states.
33 33 48 30 30 47 40 34 44 129
Calculate the mean and median for these data. Also, find the range.

9. Find the mean, variance and standard deviation for the grouped frequency distribution below.
Class Frequency, f
0 – 9.9 5
10 – 19.9 13
20 – 29.9 23
30 – 39.9 31
40 – 49.9 16

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