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Stat Assignment 1 - C Sec

The document contains 20 questions involving calculations of various statistical measures such as mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, and coefficient of variation from data provided in tables and frequency distributions. The questions require finding averages, identifying central tendencies, measuring spread and dispersion, comparing variability between data sets, and determining if values lie within a specified number of standard deviations from the mean.

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Stat Assignment 1 - C Sec

The document contains 20 questions involving calculations of various statistical measures such as mean, median, mode, standard deviation, variance, and coefficient of variation from data provided in tables and frequency distributions. The questions require finding averages, identifying central tendencies, measuring spread and dispersion, comparing variability between data sets, and determining if values lie within a specified number of standard deviations from the mean.

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C Section – Assignment 1

1. Find the mean heights of the students.

2. Calculate the mean age of the group of people shown in Table below,

3. The number of new orders received by a company over the last 25 working days
were recorded as follows: 3, 0, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 5, 3, 6, 4, 5, 1, 4, 2, 3, 0, 2, 0, 5, 4, 2, 3,
3, 1. Calculate the arithmetic mean for the number of orders received over all similar
working days.

4. The daily earnings (in rupees) of employees working on a daily basis in a firm are:

Calculate the average daily earning for all employees.

5. An examination was held to decide the award of a scholarship. The weights of


various subjects were different. The marks obtained by 3 candidates (out of 100 in
each subject) are given below:

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6. There are two units of an automobile company in two different cities employing
760 and 800 persons, respectively. The arithmetic means of monthly salaries paid to
persons in these two units are Rs 18,750 and Rs 16,950 respectively. Find the
combined arithmetic mean of salaries of the employees in both the units.

7. Find the median of the following:

8. In a factory employing 3000 persons, 5 per cent earn less than Rs 150 per day,
580 earn from Rs 151 to Rs 200 per day, 30 per cent earn from Rs 201 to Rs 250
per day, 500 earn from Rs 251 to Rs 300 per day, 20 per cent earn from Rs 301 to
Rs 350 per day, and the rest earn Rs 351 or more per day. What is the median
wage?

9. Identify the mode in the following frequency table:

10. The following distribution gives the pattern of overtime work per week done by
100 employees of a company. Calculate QD.

11. The geometric mean of 10 observations on a certain variable was calculated to


be 16.2. It was later discovered that one of the observations was wrongly recorded
as 10.9 when in fact it was 21.9. Apply appropriate corrections and calculate the
correct geometric mean.

12. Compute the range and coefficient of range for the number of employees in an
organisation in various age groups

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13. Compute the quartile deviation and coefficient of quartile deviation from the data
in Table below,

14. Calculate Standard Deviation from Actual Mean and Assumed Mean

15. Calculate Standard Deviation

16. Calculate Variance and Coefficient of Variance

17. The weekly sales of two products A and B were recorded as given below:

Find out which of the two shows greater fluctuation in sales.

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18. The breaking strength of 80 ‘test pieces’ of a certain alloy is given in the following
table; the unit being given to the nearest thousand grams per square inch;

Calculate the average breaking strength of the alloy and the standard deviation.
Calculate the percentage of observations lying between x ± 2σ.

19. The number of cheques cashed each day at the five branches of a bank during
the past month has the following frequency distribution:

The General manager, operations for the bank, knows that a standard deviation in
cheque cashing of more than 200 checks per day creates staffing problem at the
branches because of the uneven workload. Should the manager worry about staffing
next month?

20. Two salesmen selling the same product show the following results over a long
period of time:

Which salesman seems to be more consistent in the volume of sales?

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