Descriptive statistics
Answers
Number of crisps
88
89
90
91
92
Number
1
2
3
4
5
6
Exercise 2A
1
Discrete
Continuous
Discrete
Discrete
Continuous
Discrete
Continuous
Continuous
Continuous
Discrete
Continuous
Discrete
Biased
Random
Biased
Random
Biased
Number of goals
0
1
2
3
4
5
Number of heads
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Age
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Frequency
4
9
8
7
4
1
4
3
Frequency
7
9
11
6
7
10
m = 6, n = 3
Exercise 2C
Exercise 2B
1
Frequency
3
6
16
3
2
1
Frequency
4
7
7
4
1
2
Frequency
1
1
4
4
3
7
9
4
5
2
4
3
3
Number
0x<5
5 x < 10
10 x < 15
15 x < 20
20 x < 25
25 x < 30
30 x < 35
35 x < 40
40 x < 45
45 x < 50
Frequency
1
7
3
4
6
1
5
0
2
1
Number
10 x < 20
20 x < 30
30 x < 40
40 x < 50
50 x < 60
60 x < 70
70 x < 80
80 x < 90
90 x < 100
Frequency
7
5
7
5
7
5
5
2
2
Number
1x<3
3x<5
5x<7
7x<9
9 x < 11
11 x < 13
13 x < 15
15 x < 17
17 x < 19
19 x < 21
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Frequency
3
7
4
3
6
3
4
3
1
1
WORKED SOLUTIONS
Exercise 2D
Class
Lower
boundary
8.5
12.5
16.5
20.5
912
1316
1720
2124
b
Time
(t seconds)
2.0 t < 2.2
2.2 t < 2.4
2.4 t < 2.6
Upper
boundary
12.5
16.5
20.5
24.5
Lower
boundary
2.0
2.2
2.4
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1011
Length (cm)
Number
0 x < 10
10 x < 20
20 x < 30
30 x < 40
40 x < 50
50 x < 60
60 x < 70
70 x < 80
80 x < 90
Upper
boundary
2.2
2.4
2.6
Exercise 2E
f
26
24
22
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
10
20
30
40
50 c
f
12
10
8
6
4
2
a
b
20 40 60 80
Number of times traveled
by train
Number of
weeds
0 x < 10
10 x < 20
20 x < 30
30 x < 40
40 x < 50
50 x < 60
60 x < 70
70 x < 80
20
40
Age
60
16
12
8
4
f
40
20 40 60 80
Number of weeds
30
20
10
10
21
14
12
10
7
3
3
20
80 x
frequency
Frequency
6
a
Frequency
8
10
7
6
3
6
5
4
1
10
Frequency
30
25
20
15
10
5
Frequency
1 a
0.4
0.8
1.2
1.6
2 x
f
32
28
24
20
16
12
8
4
0
10
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20
30
40
50 x
WORKED SOLUTIONS
8
600
(76 + 54 + 65)
Number of visitors
400
6
10
12
14 16
Time
18
Exercise 2F
a
= 68
200
100
(195 + x )
300
Exercise 2G
Arrange in order: 1 1 3 7 8 9 10
Mode = 1
Median =
1 1 3 7 8 9 10
39
= 5.57 (3 sf)
Arrange in order: 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 6 8 11 13
Mode = 5
Median = 6.5th entry = 5
Mean =
2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 6 8 11 13
12
71
12
3.41
= 7.71(3 sf)
Mode = 1.52
Mean =
21 34 17 22 56 38
473852
Number of children = 4 + 3 + 8 + 5 + 4 + 1
= 25
Mean =
0 u 4 1u 3 2 u 8 3 u 5 4 u 4 5 u1
n = 30 (4 + 5 + 3 + 6 + 5) = 7
Mean =
1u 4 2 u 5 3 u 3 4 u 7 5 u 6 6 u 5
453765
Mean =
54.7 55.1
22.6 26.3
b
c
= 54.9
= 58.0
544
= 24.45
3
26.3 12.6 33.5 8.9 18.7 22.6 31.8 45.3
(34 + 32)
120
24 t < 26
70 s < 80
40 x < 50
Exercise 2I
(1 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + t + 12 + 12)
= 6.5
80 + t = 6.5 14 = 91
100 = 55%
14
= 4.53
Exercise 2H
= 25.0
So, t = 11
= 3.7
120
= 2.2
1 u 1 2 u 6 3 u 19 4 u 34 5 u 32 6 u 18 7 u 10
Mean =
= 3.31
= 31.3
2
48.6 48.6 54.7 55.1 63.2 77.9
=15th entry = 4
1u 4 2 u 7 3 u 3 4 u 8 5 u 5 6 u 2
Mean =
1 6 19 34 32 18 10
Mean =
29 1
4 3 8 5 4 1
= 5.92 (3 sf)
= 65
500
6 + a = 14
a=8
b = 50 (6 + 8 + 10 + 5 + 7) = 14
c = 24 + 14 = 38
Questions 26:
graphs.
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WORKED SOLUTIONS
Exercise 2J
Exercise 2K
range = 16 3 = 13
range = 25 18 = 7
IQR (from GDC) = 23.5 19 = 4.5
Exercise 2L
1
range = 21 2 = 19
Exercise 2M
Use GDC. See Chapter 12 in the book for help.
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