CLASS-WORK

1. Give specific examples of data that might be gathered from each of the
following business disciplines and the industry.
Functional Areas :- Accounting, Finance, Production, Marketing,
Industry :- Manufacturing, Agriculture, Insurance, Banking, Travel, Healthcare
2. The following is the marks obtained by students in Statistics:-

105 133 127 110 129

118 148 73 87 108
79 103 144 78 98
101 142 98 99 86
94 101 115 79 144
132 136 101 111 88
94 125 110 126 147
80 103 99 107 80
127 138 116 94 123
75 124 106 93 96
a. Construct a frequency distribution for the data using a class interval of ten.
b. Find relative frequencies of each categories.
c. Find Cumulative Frequencies.
d. Construct a Histogram
e. Construct a Frequency Polygon
f. Construct an Ogive

( For question Number 3,4,5,6 find all the measures of central tendency and
measures of variation/dispersion)

3. Consider the following data concerning the number of defects being produced by a
manufacturing unit
65 67 71 67 69 65 70 71 67 66 71 72 67 66 68

( Median is the value at {(n+1)/2th} observation. Percentile:- Pith percentile occurs

at {Pi=(i xn)/100} value. (i) in case this value is a whole number then the Pith
percentile is the average of the value occurring at the whole number and the next
higher whole number. (ii) in case this multiplication is not a whole number then
the Pith percentile occurs at the next higher whole number value of data arranged
in ascending order)

4. The rain fall (In mm) in Delhi in the first days of the month of June was as
follows:-
65.22, 65.45, 66.62, 65.22, 65.22, 63, 67.82, 63, 64.12, 63
5. A random sample of voters in Delhi, is classified by age group, as shown by
the following data.
Age Group Frequency
18 - under 24 80
24 - under 30 85
30 - under 36 89
36 - under 42 98
42 - under 48 96
48 - under 54 93
54 - under 60 95
60 - under 66 84
66 - under 72 78

6. The students were asked to rate “ how important is price in choosing a

laptop/mobile”. The rating was to be given on a scale measuring 1 to 5 with
the following annotations
1 2 3 4 5
Highly Unimportant Neither Important nor Important Highly
Unimportant Unimportant Important

The scores obtained from the survey of 50 students is as follows :

PRICE RATING FREQUENCY (f)

1 65
2 66
3 73
4 78
5 83
TOTAL n=Σf= 365