Unit 2 Classification of Frequency and frequency distribution

1. The marks obtained by 20 students in a business statistics test are given bellow:
84 17 38 45 47 53 76 54 75 54 72 22
66 65 55 54 51 33 39 19
a. Develop the ordered array
b. Construct the stem-and-leaf display.

2. Given the following stem-and-leaf display

9 714
10 82230
11 5617767
12 394282
13 20
a. Rearrange the leaves and form the revised stem and leaf display
b. Place the data into an ordered array
c. which of these two devices seems to give more information

3. The following data are the retail prices for a random sample of 21VCR models.
350 340 320 220 450 270 265 210 250 180 300 190
170 190 170 170 200 180 220 200 365
a. Develop the ordered array
b. construct the stem and leaf display and draw an appropriate conclusion from this display

4. The following data represents the grade point average of students in a business statistics
3.4 2.1 2.4 2.8 3.2 3.7 2.5 2.2 2.8 2.6 3.2
3.3 3.3 2.9 2.4 2.5 2.4 3.2 2.3 2.8 2.8 3.1
3.1 3.0
Constructs the stem and leaf display using the leading digits as the stem
5. Construct the stem and leaf display of the following data.
110 93 81 93 75 73 73 48 53 69 66
111 105 93 90 50 57 64 90 111 91 70
70 51 79 93 105 51 63 93 85 76 45
67 67
6. Upon examining the monthly billing records of a mail-order book company, the auditor
takes a sample of 20 of its unpaid accounts. The amounts owned the companies were
$4 18 11 7 7 10 5 23 9 12 3 11
10 6 26 17 15 18 10 21
a) Develop the ordered array
b) Form the stem and leaf display.
7. The following data represents the retail price of a sample of 39 different brands of
bathroom scales
50 50 50 28 65 40 50 22 32 30
79 50 22 20 35 24 25 92 35 35
65 20 14 25 24 48 15 10 17 50
25 22 60 30 12 30 10 12 20
a) Develop the ordered array
b) Form the stem and leaf display.

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8. The following raw data represents the weekly salary checks earned by a sample of eight
secretaries in a large law firm:
$555 $490 $648 $832 $710 $590 $576 $627
Construct the stem and leaf display.
9. The following are the raw data
7 9 8 6 12 6 9 15 9 16
8 5 14 8 7 6 10 8 11 4
10 6 16 5 10 12 7 10 15 7
10 8 8 10 18 8 10 11 7 10
7 8 15 23 13 9 8 9 9 13
a. Construct stem and leaf display.
b. Form the frequency distribution
i. having 5 class intervals
ii. having 6 class intervals
iii. having 7 class intervals
10. The raw data displayed below are the lengths of leaves measured in mm of a plant for a
random sample of
50 plants
96 171 202 178 147 102 153 197 127 82 157 185
90 116 172 111 148 213 130 165 141 149 206 175
123 128 148 168 109 167 95 163 150 154 130 143
187 166 139 149 108 119 183 151 141 135 191 137
129 158
a. Classify the data of 6 classes of suitable length
b. Write the corresponding frequency table
c. Write the corresponding relative frequency table
d. prepare the cumulative frequency table
e. prepare the cumulative relative frequency table
f. Draw a histogram for the frequency table (b).
g. Draw a frequency polygon over the histogram obtained in (b).
h. Draw a Ogive for the cumulative frequency table in (d)
11. The following data represents the age of 30 patients taken from hospital.
17 8 22 19 7 14
13 21 28 17 29 22
20 17 14 16 19 13
18 11 34 17 11 15
11 20 25 32 21 12
a. Construct a histogram and frequency polygon for the age.
b. Draw the less than and more than Ogive
12. Draw a less than Ogive from the following frequency distribution.
Marks 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90
No. of 3 7 18 36 16 12 8
Stud.
a. Also find the number of students whose marks lies between 45 and 75
b. using the above frequency distribution
i. Obtain the histogram, relative histogram and percentage histogram

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ii. Obtain the more than Ogive and find the number of student whose marks is
greater than 55.
13. The stem-and-leaf display below contains data on the number of months between the
dates a civil suit is filed and when the case is actually adjudicated for 50 cases heard in
superior court.
Stem leaves
1 234447899
2 22223455678889
3 0011135778
4 02345579
5 112466
6 158

a. Construct a histogram for the dates using 10 but less than 20 as the first class.
b. What percent of the cases were not adjudicated within the first 4 years?
14.
15. The stem-and Leaf display represent the bounced check fee for a sample of 25 banks for
direct deposit customers.
stem leaves
1 5588
2 00001225555889
3 45677
4 12
i) What are the two information obtained from this stem and leaf display?
ii) What percentages of items are before 30?
iii) Construct the relative percentage frequency distribution.
16. A national associations of real states sellers have collected these data on a sample of 130
Salespeople representing their total commission earning annually.
Commission <5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 >50
($000)
Frequency 5 9 11 33 37 19 9 7
Constructs an Ogive that will help you answer these questions
a. About what proportion of the salespeople earns more than $25000
b. About what does the middle salesperson in the sample earn?
c. Approximately how much could real estate salespersons whose performance was
about 25% from the top expect to earn annually.
17. From the following frequency distribution.
Income 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60
($”000”)
No. of 5 10 18 23 7 6
person
a. Construct an Ogive that will help you the answer.
i. Find the number of persons having income less than $ 35,000.

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ii. Find the number of persons having income between $20,000 and
$50,000.
b. Also drawn the histogram and frequency polygon.
18. Chlorine level in PPM. As found in 30 samples of 1 gallon each of the treated water is
shown below. Arrange the data in a table showing the corresponding frequency,
cumulative frequency and relative frequency.
Chlorine level in ppm. Found in 30 samples
16 16 15 17 18 16 15 18 16 16 15 15
17 17 18 16 15 18 19 15 16 15 15 14
15 16 18 19 15 19
Also draw a frequency polygon of the data and calculate what proportions of the sample
contain chlorine level greater than 16 PPM?

19. From the following frequency distribution.

Age Less than 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-40 40-60 60-80
No. of workers 4 12 15 18 30 36
a. Obtain relative frequency and percentage frequency.
b. Draw the histogram, frequency polygon and frequency curve of the above data.
c. Draw the ogive that give the answer , how many workers are there, whose age is
more than 25years
20. Chien-ling lee owns a CD store specializing in spoken –word recording. Lee has 35
months of gross sales data as given.
Monthly sales Frequency
($*000*)
10-12 2
12-14 6
14-16 13
16-18 18
18-20 24
20-22 32
22-24 34
24-26 35
a. Obtain the simple frequency distribution, relative frequency distribution.
b. Construct the relative frequency histogram and polygon.
c. Obtain the less than ogive.

21. The weights of a fruit were recorded for a sample of 25. The data to be the nearest grams
are given
66 65 96 80 71 93 66 96 75 61 69 61
51 84 58 73 77 89 69 92 57 56 55 78
96
a. Construct the histogram
b. Construct the ogive that will help the following answer
- find the number of fruit that whose weight is less than 73 gram.

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22. The weights of a fruits were recorded for a sample of 50. The data, to the nearest grams,
are given below.
21 23 22 22 21 21 25 22 23 20 25
21 23 21 24 23 21 23 24 20 24 20
24 19 25 25 20 24 24 22 21 22 23
20 24 24 20 24 23 24 20 24 24 21
24 24 21 21 22 23
a. Arrange the data in an array from lowest to highest.
b. Constructs the frequency distribution and a less than cumulative frequency
distribution from the data, using intervals of 0.8 minutes.
c. Constructs the frequency polygon from the data.
d. Constructs the less than ogive from the data.
e. From your ogive estimate the percentage of the fruits that have weights less than
24 grams.

23. The Nebraska Department of Agriculture has these data representing weekly growth (in
inches ) on samples of newly planted spring corn
0.4 1.9 1.5 0.9 0.3 1.6 0.4 1.5 1.2 0.8 0.9
0.7 0.9 0.7 0.9 1.5 0.5 1.5 1.7 1.8
a. Arrange the data in an array from highest to lowest
b. Construct relative frequency distribution using intervals of 0.25
c. Constructs an ogive that will help you determine what proportion of the corn grew
at more than 1.0 inch a week.
d. What was the approximate weekly growth rate of the middle item in the data
array?

24. The administrator of a hospital has ordered a study of the amount of time a patient must
wait before being treated by emergency room personnel. The following data were
collected during a typical day:

Waiting time (minutes)

12 16 21 20 24 3 11 17 29 18 26
4 7 14 25 1 27 15 16 5
a. Construct a frequency distribution using 6 classes. What additional interpretation
can you give to the data from the frequency distribution?
b. From an ogive state how long 75 percent of the patients should expect to wait
based on these data.

25. BMT manufactures performance equipment for cars used in various types of racing. It
has gathered the following information on the number of models of engines in different
size categories used in the racing market it serves:

Engine size in cubic Frequency(of models)

inches
101-150 1
151-200 7

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201-250 7
251-300 8
301-350 17
351-400 16
401-450 15
451-500 7

a. Construct a cumulative relative frequency distribution that will help answer these
questions
i. Seventy percent of the engine models available are larger than about what size?
ii. What was the approximate middle value in the original data set?
iii. If BMT has designed a fuel injection system that can be used on racing engines up
to 400 cubic inches about what percentage of the engine models available will not
be able to use BMT‘s systems ?