STT 100 WORK SHEET-CHAPTER 3

Question 1(3mark)
For the given population data find mean, median and mode. Also find variance and standard
deviation.
23 34 12 15 16 22 16 17 18 12

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Question 2 (2mark)

Use the following sample data to calculate mean, standard deviation and variance.

Class interval Frequency

11-20 3

21-30 5

31-40 7

41-50 3

51-60 2

a) Mean(0.5 mark):

b) Variance(1mark):

c) Standard deviation(0.5 mark):

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Question 3 (4 mark)

a) Find the quartiles and check for outliers in the data.(2 mark)
18 12 11 13 38 21 17 15 18 12 14 14

b) Construct a box and whiskers plot and comment on the distribution of the data.(1 mark)

c) Find the percentile rank for the value 21. (0.5 mark)

d) Find the 65th percentile in the data. (0.5 mark)

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Question 4 (1 mark)

a) The mean salary of the employees of a company $4850 and the standard deviation is $250.
Apply Chebyshev’s theorem, to calculate the salary interval that carry 75% of the data. Round
off your answer to 2 places after the decimal point.

b) For the same data, applying Empirical rule find the interval that carries 95% of the data

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Formula Sheet – STT100
Mean for ungrouped and grouped data:

Variance for ungrouped data:

Variance for grouped data

Chebyshev's theorem

1
At least 1  is between   k
k2

Outliers:
Outlier < Q1 – 1.5 (IQR)

or outlier > Q3 + 1.5 (IQR) where IQR = Q3 – Q1

Percentile:

The th percentile:

Coefficient of variation

X100

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