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EXAMINATION OFFICE
Granted Accreditation and Legal Personality by The Ministerial Order N0 7/2015 Official
Gazette N0 03 of 19/01/2015

Faculty: Education Department: Languages and Humanities

Year of study: Year Two, Level of study: III, Study Mode: Weekend
Module code and title: E304 (Initiation to Statistics)
Category of assessment: COURSE WORK (ASSIGNMENT)
Date: 2022-03-18; Submission date: 2022-03-20 at 1:00 PM

Instructions:

1. This questionnaire consists of Nine (9) questions.

2. Attempt all questions.
3. Each group is made of Five (5) students.
4. The submission date is March 20, 2022 at 1:00 PM

Question 1
(a) Describe any two properties of the mean as a measure of central tendency
(b) The table below shows the marks scored by 42 students in a test

35 49 69 57 58 75 48
40 46 86 47 81 67 63
56 80 36 62 49 46 26
41 58 68 73 65 59 72
64 70 64 54 74 33 51
73 25 41 61 56 57 28

Starting with the mark of 25 and using equal intervals of 10

(a) Develop a frequency distribution and relative frequency distribution to the above data
(b) Develop a cumulative frequency and a cumulative relative frequency distribution.
(c) How many students who scored at least 80 𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘?
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(d) Construct the histogram to the above data set.

Question 2
The data set below shows the systolic blood pressure (𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑚𝐻𝑔) of patients taken by a nurse at
a certain hospital in June 5, 2012.
70 75 79 80 78 82
91 92 93 93 94 95
97 95 98 100 107 107
105 104 108 111 109 116
82 89 88 87 90 92

a) Develop a frequency distribution and relative frequency distribution to the

above data (let the width of your classes to be 10 units).
b) Develop a cumulative frequency and a cumulative relative frequency
distribution.
c) How many patients whose systolic blood pressure was at least 90 𝑚𝑚𝐻?
d) Construct the histogram to the above data set.

Question 3
Shultz, Inc. is a large carpet manufacturing firm. The following data represent Shultz’s yearly
sales volume and their advertising expenditures over a period of 10 years.

Year Sales volume (𝑦) Advertising Expenditure (𝑥)

(Time) ($ Dollars) ($ Millions)
1980 26 1.8
1981 31 2.3
1982 28 2.6
1983 30 2.4
1984 34 2.8
1985 38 3.0
1986 41 3.4
1987 44 3.2
1988 40 3.6
1989 43 3.8

a) Develop a scatter diagram for the above data.

b) What does the scatter diagram developed in part a) indicate about the relationship
between the two variables?
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c) What kind of model would be an appropriate model for representing the relationship
between the two variables?
d) Develop a least-squares estimated regression line of the sales volume (y) on the
advertising expenditure (x) and explain what the slope of the line indicates.

Question 4

The following data set was obtained from the manager of a city water department for predicting
the consumption of water (in gallons) from the size of households

Household Size (𝑥) Water used (𝑦)

2 650
7 1200
9 1300
4 430
12 1400
6 900
9 1800
3 640
3 793
2 925

Using OLS (Ordinary Least Squares) estimation method, determine the appropriate value
of the coefficient estimates of the equation of the least squares regression for water
consumption on household size and predict the water consumption for a household size
of 10 persons.

Question 5
The members of an orchestra were asked how many instruments each could play. Here are
their results: 2, 5, 2, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3
3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 4, 3, 2
1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 2, 3, 1, 1, 2
Find:

a) The mean number of instruments played

b) Variance of the instruments played
c) Standard deviation of instruments played
d) The mode of the instruments played
e) The median of the instruments played.

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Question 6
a) The mean for the number of pages of women’s fitness magazines is 132, with variance of
23; the mean of the number of advertisements of a sample of women’s fitness magazine is 182
with a variance of 62. Compare the variations.

b) A survey of local companies found that the mean amount of travel allowance for couriers was
$0.25 per mile. The standard deviation was $0.02. Using Chebyshev’s theorem, find the
minimum percentage of the data values that will fall between $0.20 and $0.30.

Question 7
Let consider the table of data set below.

𝑦𝑖 𝑦1 𝑦2 𝑦3
values 3 1 2
𝑦𝑖 𝑦4 𝑦5 𝑦6
values 3 5 4
6

i. If f ( y)  2 y  1 , show that  f (y ) i is 30.

i 1

ii. Here is data set of marks for female students in an undergraduate statistics class:

Marks (𝑥𝑖) Frequency (𝑓)

5 3
6 4
7 2
8 3
9 2
Total 14

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For these 14 scores, compute the mean, median, mode, range, sample variance, and sample standard
deviation.

Question 8

Assume a sample space is given as:

𝑆 = {𝐸1, 𝐸2, 𝐸3, 𝐸4, 𝐸5}

and the following probabilities are assigned to the sample points:

(𝐸1) = 0.01; (𝐸2) = 0.19; (𝐸3) = 0.40; 𝑃(𝐸4) = 0.30; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃(𝐸5) = 0.10.

Let define the events:

𝐴 = {𝐸1, 𝐸3, 𝐸5}

𝐵 = {𝐸2, 𝐸3}

𝐶 = {𝐸1, 𝐸2, 𝐸4}

a) Find (𝐴), (B) and 𝑃(C).

b) Find (A ∩ C) and 𝑃(A ∩ C)
c) Are the events A and C mutually exclusive? Why or why not?
d) Find 𝑃(Cc)
e) Find (A ∪ B) and 𝑃(A ∪ B)
f) Let: 𝑋 = {𝐸1, 𝐸3, 𝐸5} and 𝑌 = {𝐸2, 𝐸4}
Are the events 𝑋 and 𝑌 mutually exclusive? Are they collectively exhaustive? Explain.

Question 9
The sampling procedures that are commonly used in research are divided into two main parts:

- Probability based sampling procedures and

- Non-probability sampling procedures

Discuss in details the above two sampling procedures and their difference with precise examples.

Good Luck!
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