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Frequency Distribution Problems Solutions

1. The document discusses frequency distributions and constructing frequency distribution tables from sample data. Examples are provided of constructing FDTs from sample data on number of customers at a restaurant, body weights of rats in a study, and average gas mileage. 2. Instructions are given on how to calculate the class size, class marks, relative frequencies, and cumulative frequencies to complete an FDT. Formulas for range and number of classes are also outlined. 3. The final examples discuss creating a histogram from gas mileage data and constructing a less than cumulative frequency table and ogive from marks data.

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Frequency Distribution Problems Solutions

1. The document discusses frequency distributions and constructing frequency distribution tables from sample data. Examples are provided of constructing FDTs from sample data on number of customers at a restaurant, body weights of rats in a study, and average gas mileage. 2. Instructions are given on how to calculate the class size, class marks, relative frequencies, and cumulative frequencies to complete an FDT. Formulas for range and number of classes are also outlined. 3. The final examples discuss creating a histogram from gas mileage data and constructing a less than cumulative frequency table and ogive from marks data.

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Frequency Distributions

S t a ti s ti c s n o t e s b y R a h u l S i r ’ s M B A / B B A C l a s s e s

1. The following are the number of customers a restaurant


served for lunch on 60 weekdays:

50 64 55 51 60 41 71 53 63 64
49 59 66 45 61 57 65 62 58 65
55 61 60 55 53 57 58 66 53 56
64 46 59 49 64 60 58 64 42 47
59 62 56 63 61 68 57 51 61 51
60 59 67 52 52 58 64 43 60 62

Construct the FDT of the given data set.


Find the Range, Class Mark, Relative frequency and
cumulative frequency.

R = highest value – lowest value


R = 71 – 41
R = 30 the Range is 30

K = √N
K = √ 60
K = 7.74 the number of classes is 7

R
C1 =
K
30
C1 =
7.74
C1 =
3.87 or 5 the actual class size is 5

No. of
Tally Freq. CM TCB RF CF RCF
Customers
LTCB UTCB <CF >CF <RCF >RCF
41-45  IIII 4 43 40.5 45.5 6.67 4 60 6.67 100
46-50  IIII 5 48 45.5 50.5 8.33 9 56 15 93.3
51-55  IIII-IIII-I 11 53 50.5 55.5 18.33 20 51 33.3 85
56-60  IIII-IIII-IIII-III 18 58 55.5 60.5 30 38 40 63.3 66.7
61-65  IIII-IIII-IIII-II 17 63 60.5 65.5 28.33 55 22 91.7 36.7
66-70  IIII 4 68 65.5 70.5 6.67 59 5 98.3 8.34
71-75  I 1 73 70.5 75.5 1.67 60 1 100 1.67
60 100

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2. A survey taken at a hotel in ITC indicated that 40 guests


preferred the following means of transportation:

car car bus plane train bus bus plane car plane plane
bus plane car car train train car car car car plane
plane car bus car bus car plane car plane plane car
car car bus train car bus car

Construct a categorical distribution showing the


frequencies corresponding to the different means of
transportation. Interpret the results.

Transportation Tally Frequency


Car IIII-IIII-IIII-III 18
Train IIII  4
Bus  IIII-III 8
Plane IIII-IIII  10

3. The following are the body weights (in grams) of 50 rats


used in a study of vitamin deficiencies:

136 92 115 118 121 137 132 120 104 129


125 119 115 101 129 87 108 110 133 124
135 126 127 103 110 126 118 82 104 113
137 120 95 146 126 119 119 105 132 95
126 118 100 113 106 125 117 102 146 148

Construct the FDT of the given data set.


Find the Range, Class Mark, Relative frequency and
cumulative frequency.
R = highest value – lowest value
R = 148 – 82
R = 66

K = √N where N is the total number of observations


K = √ 50
K = 7.07 or 7

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S t a ti s ti c s n o t e s b y R a h u l S i r ’ s M B A / B B A C l a s s e s

R
C1 =
K
66
C1 =
7.07
C1 = 9.33 or 11

Table 1: FDT of

Weight Tally Freq. CM TCB RF CF RCF


(in LCTB UTCB (%) <CF >CF <RCF >RCF
grams)
82-92  III 3 87 81.5 92.5 6 3 50 6 100
93-103  IIII-I 6 98 92.5  103.5 12 9 47 18 94
104-114  IIII-IIII 9 109 103.5  114.5 18 18 41 36 82
115-125  IIII-IIII-IIII 15 120 114.5  125.5 30 33 32 66 64
126-136  IIII-IIII-II 12 131 125.5  136.5 24 45 17 90 34
137-147  IIII 4 142 136.5  147.5 8 49 5 98 10
148-159  I 1 153 147.5  159.5 2 50 1 100 2
50 100

Out of the graphs shown, it is apparent that most of the rats


taken into the study have a weight ranging from 115 to 125 grams.

4. Create a histogram for the following data Average gas


mileage in miles/gallon:
24,17,14,22,25,26,38,42,24,12,28,19,32,21,35,28,21,31,18,19

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5. Draw a relative frequency histogram from the given data.


34,40,52,57,57,60,60,63,67,69,69,69,71,89

6. Question: For the data given below, construct a less than


cumulative frequency table and plot its ogive.

Marks  0 - 10  10 - 20  20 - 30  30 - 40  40 - 50   50 - 60  60 - 70  70 - 80   80 - 90  90 -100
Frequency     3     5     6     7      8    9     10     12     6     4

Marks        Frequency     Less than cumulative frequency  


      0 - 10           3                 3
    10 - 20           5                 8
    20 - 30           6                14
    30 - 40           7                21
    40 - 50           8                29
    50 - 60           9                38
    60 - 70          10                48
    70 - 80          12                60
    80 - 90           6                66
    90 - 100           4                70

Plot the points having abscissa as upper limits and ordinates as the cumulative
frequencies (10, 3), (20, 8), (30, 14), (40, 21), (50, 29), (60,38), (70, 48), (80, 60), (90,
66), (100, 70) and join the points by a smooth curve.

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