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The document outlines an assignment consisting of multiple tasks related to data analysis, including creating frequency distribution tables, calculating relative frequencies and percentages, and visualizing data through bar graphs and pie charts. It involves analyzing survey data, student status, credit card ownership, employee ages, and production statistics for a corporation. Each section requires specific calculations and graphical representations to interpret the data effectively.

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Assignment Two

The document outlines an assignment consisting of multiple tasks related to data analysis, including creating frequency distribution tables, calculating relative frequencies and percentages, and visualizing data through bar graphs and pie charts. It involves analyzing survey data, student status, credit card ownership, employee ages, and production statistics for a corporation. Each section requires specific calculations and graphical representations to interpret the data effectively.

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Subject: Assignment two

Date:25/02/2024

Assignment Two

1. Why do we need to group data in the form of a frequency table?


Explain briefly.
2. How are the relative frequencies and percentages of categories obtained from the
frequencies of categories? Illustrate with the help of an example?.for below example.

3. The following data give the results of a sample survey. The letters A, B, and
C represent the three categories.

a) Prepare a frequency distribution table.


b) Calculate the relative frequencies and percentages for all categories.
c) What percentage of the elements in this sample belong to category B?
d) What percentage of the elements in this sample belong to category A or C?
e) Draw a bar graph for the frequency distribution.

4. The following data give the results of a sample survey. The letters Y, N, and D represent the
three categories.

a) Prepare a frequency distribution table.


b) Calculate the relative frequencies and percentages for all categories.
c) What percentage of the elements in this sample belong to category Y?
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d) What percentage of the elements in this sample belong to category N or D?


e) Draw a pie chart for the percentage distribution.

5. The data on the status of 50 students given in Table 2.2 of Section 2.1 are
reproduced here.

a) Prepare a frequency distribution table.


b) Calculate the relative frequencies and percentages for all categories.
c) What percentage of these students are juniors or seniors?
d) Draw a bar graph for the frequency distribution.

6. A sample of 80 adults was taken, and these adults were asked about the number of
credit cards they possess. The following table gives the frequency distribution of their
responses.
APPLIED STATISTICS SOMBRIGHT

a) Find the class boundaries and class midpoints.


b) Do all classes have the same width? If so, what is this width?
c) Prepare the relative frequency and percentage distribution columns.
d) What percentage of these adults possess 8 or more credit cards?

7. The following table gives the frequency distribution of ages for all 50
employees of a company.

a) Find the class boundaries and class midpoints.


b) Do all classes have the same width? If yes, what is that width?
Answer: yes they have the same width and it’s thirteen.
c) Prepare the relative frequency and percentage distribution columns.
d) What percentage of the employees of this company are age 43 or
younger?

Instructor : Dr Gas 2
APPLIED STATISTICS SOMBRIGHT

8.Nixon Corporation manufactures computer monitors. The following data are the numbers
of computer monitors produced at the company for a sample of 30 days.

a) Construct a frequency distribution table using the classes 21–23, 24–26, 27–29, 30–32, and 33–35.
b) Calculate the relative frequencies and percentages for all classes.
c) Construct a histogram and a polygon for the percentage distribution.
Data Class Frequency R-Frequency
21-23 7 0.233
24-26 4 0.133
27-29 9 0.300
30-32 4 0.133
33-35 6 0.200
Sum 30 1.000

Instructor : Dr Gas 3
APPLIED STATISTICS SOMBRIGHT

d) For what percentage of the days is the number of computer monitors


produced in the interval 27–29?
9. The following data give the numbers of computer keyboards assembled at the
Twentieth Century Electronics Company for a sample of 25 days.

Instructor : Dr Gas 4
APPLIED STATISTICS SOMBRIGHT

a) Make the frequency distribution table for these data.


b) Calculate the relative frequencies for all classes.
c) Construct a histogram for the relative frequency distribution.
d) Construct a polygon for the relative frequency distribution.
10. The following data give the number of turnovers (fumbles and
interceptions) by a college football team for each game in the past
two seasons.

a) Prepare a frequency distribution table for these data using single-


valued classes.
b) Calculate the relative frequencies and percentages for all classes.
c) In how many games did the team commit two or more turnovers?
d) Draw a bar graph for the frequency distribution of part

11. The following table, reproduced from Exercise 2.14, gives the frequency distribution
of the number of credit cards possessed by 80 adults.

Instructor : Dr Gas 5
APPLIED STATISTICS SOMBRIGHT

a) Prepare a cumulative frequency distribution.


b) Calculate the cumulative relative frequencies and cumulative
percentages for all classes.
# of Credit Cards # Adults C-frequency C-Relative Frequency C-Percentage%
0-3 18 18
4-7 26 44
8-11 22 66
12-15 11 77
16-19 3 80
Sum 80

c) Find the percentage of these adults who possess 7 or fewer credit


cards.

Instructor : Dr Gas 6

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