DBSE Learner Companion (Mathematics) MYP Year 5

UNIT 6 DATA HANDLING

Key concept Related concept(s) Global context

Organisation Fairness and Development

Logic
Interpretation Sharing the planet: an inquiry
Justification into rights and responsibilities in
the struggle to share finite
resources with other people and
with other living things
Statement of inquiry

The logical study of patterns in terms of equivalence ensures justified sharing of

finite resources with other people and all other living things to develop an
exemplary system.

Threshold concepts

Information
Data-ungrouped and grouped data
Mean
Mode
Median
Graphical representation
Events
Possible outcomes
Favourable outcomes

Worksheet 1

(Mean)
1. A survey was conducted by a group of students as a part of their environment awareness
programme, in which they collected the following data regarding the number of plants in 25
houses in a locality. Find the Mean number of plants per house.

Number of plants Number of houses

0-2 8

2-4 5

4-6 3

6-8 5

8-10 4
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2. In a retail market, fruit vendors were selling apples kept in packing boxes. These boxes
contained a varying number of apples. The following was the distribution of apples according
to the number of boxes. Find the Mean number of apples kept in a packing box.

Number of apples in a box Number of boxes

25-28 6

28-31 8

31-34 15

34-37 12

37-40 7

40-43 5

43-46 4

3. To find out the concentration of 𝑆𝑂2 in the air (in parts per million, i.e., ppm), the data was
collected for 40 localities in a certain city and is presented below:

Concentration of 𝑆𝑂2 (in ppm) Frequency

0.00 - 0.04 8

0.04 - 0.08 5

0.08 - 0.12 7

0.12 - 0.16 6

0.16 - 0.20 8

0.20 - 0.24 6

Find the Mean concentration of 𝑆𝑂2 in the air.

4. Find the missing frequencies when the Mean of data is 53.
Age (in 0- 20- 40- 60- 80-10 Total
years) 2 40 60 80 0
0

Number 1 F1 21 F2 17 100
of 5
people
5. The lengths of 40 leaves of a plant are measured correctly up to the nearest millimeter and the
data is as under: find the Mean of the data.
Length (in mm) Number of
leaves
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118-126 4

126-134 5

134-142 10

142-150 12

150-158 4

158-166 5

6. In a retail market, fruit vendors were selling mangoes kept in packing boxes.
These boxes contained a varying number of mangoes. The following was the
distribution of mangoes according to the number of boxes. Find the Mean
number of mangoes kept in a packing box.

7. A class teacher has the following absentee record of 40 students of a class

for the whole term. Find the Mean number of days a student was absent.

8. Construct the formulation to find the Mean using assumed Mean method and the step
deviation method.
9. Differentiate between Mean and average.
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Worksheet 2
(Mode)
1. Construct the formulation to find the Mode from a group
2. What is the modal class of the following distribution? Also find the Mode.

Age (in Number

years) of
patients

0-10 16

10-20 13

20-30 6

30-40 11

40-50 27

50-60 18

3. The following table shows the ages of the patients admitted in a hospital during a year:

Age in 5-15 15-25 25-35 35-45 45-55 55-65

years

number 54 46 35 25 68 59
of
patient
s
Find the Mode and the Mean of the data given above. Compare and interpret the two measures
of central tendency.
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4. The following data gives the distribution of total monthly household expenditure of 380
families of a village. Find the modal monthly expenditure of the families. Also, find the Mode
monthly expenditure :

Monthly expenditure in rupees Number of households

10000-10800 66

10800-11600 67

11600-12400 36

12400-13200 42

13200-14000 68

14000-14800 56

14800-15600 47

Go to your community and collect the grouped data of monthly kitchen expenses from 40 houses as
per your convenience. Find Mean and Mode from that data. After this, discuss with your friends what
logical information you are getting after analyzing that data.

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Worksheet 3
(Median)
1. Construct the formulation to find the Median of a grouped data.
2. The following frequency distribution gives the monthly consumption of electricity of 91
consumers of a locality. Find the Median, Mean and Mode of the data and compare them.

Monthly consumption (in units) Number of consumers

65 - 85 12

85 - 105 14

105 - 125 9

125 - 145 14

145 - 165 15

165 - 185 19

185 - 205 8

3. The following table gives production yield per hectare of wheat of 100 farms of a village.
Production yield Number of farms

40-45 4

45-50 6

50-55 16

55-60 20

60-65 30

65-70 24
Change the distribution to a ‘more than type’ distribution and draw its ogive.
4. The lengths of 40 leaves of a plant are measured correct to the nearest millimeter, and the data
obtained is represented in the following table :

Length in mm Number of leaves

118 - 126 3

127 - 135 5

136 - 144 9

145 - 153 12
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154 - 162 5

163 - 171 4

172 - 180 2
Find the positional Mean value of the leaf size.
5. The distribution below gives the weights of 30 students of a class. Find the Mean and Median
weight of students
Weight (in kgs) Number of students

40-45 2

45-50 3

50-55 8

55-60 6

60-65 6

65-70 3

70-75 2
6. Find Mode, using an empirical relation, when it is given that Mean and Median are 10.5 and 9.6
respectively.
7. Write the Median class of the following distribution:

Class Frequency

0-10 4

10-20 4

20-30 8

30-40 10

40-50 12

50-60 8

60-70 4

8. Find the Median

Marks Frequency

0-10 8
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10-20 10

20-30 12

30-40 22

40-50 30

50-60 18
9. What is the Median class of the grouped data?
Class Frequency

128-135 8

135-142 5

142-149 9

149-156 12

156-163 5

163-170 1
10. During the medical check-up of 35 students of a class, their weights were recorded as follows:

Weight (in kg) Number of students

Less than 38 8

Less than 41 15

Less than 44 21

Less than 47 25

Less than 50 48

Less than 53 56

Less than 56 68

Draw less than and more than type ogives for the given data. Hence obtain the Median weight
from the graph and verify the result by using the formula.

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Worksheet 4

(Probability)
1. What is the probability of a sure event and an impossible event ?
2. What will be the probability of 53 Sundays in a leap year ?
3. What is the probability of Wednesday being the birthday of Hanif in a calendar year ?
4. What will be the probability of not getting 2 and 3 when two dice are tossed together.
5. Cards each marked with one of the numbers 6, 7, 8, ....,15 and placed in a box and
mixed thoroughly. One card is drawn at random from the box. What is the probability
of getting a card with a number less than 10?
6. A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of playing cards. Find the
probability of drawing a
(i) face card
(ii) card which is neither a king nor a red card.

7. A game consists of tossing a one-rupee coin 3 times and noting its outcome each time.
Hanif wins if all the tosses give the same result, i.e., three heads or three tails, and
loses otherwise, calculate the probability that hanif will lose the game.
8. A survey at a university was conducted among 880 students. Of these, 500 identified
themselves as "smokers". Compute the empirical probability that a randomly selected
student is not from a "smoker".
9. A survey was conducted on 1000 families in a village.

NO CHILD ONE CHILD TWO CHILD SINGLE SINGLE MORE

GIRL CHILD BOY CHILD THAN 2
CHILD

24 235 685 76 158 56

Now if we pick one family randomly
i) What will be the probability that the selected family is having no child.
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ii) What will be the probability that the selected family is having a third gender single
child.
iii) What will be the probability that the selected family is not having two children.
10. A box contains 4 blue, 1 white, and 3 red marbles. If a marble is drawn at random from the
box, what is the probability that it will be (i) white? (ii) either red or blue? (iii) green?
11. What will be the probability of finding a card when picked randomly from two well mixed
playing card sets. i) red card, ii) black ace and iii) a king
12. Ravita and Karamjeet Kaur are friends. What is the probability that both will have (i)
different birthdays? (ii) the same birthday? (ignoring a leap year).A box contains 101 discs
which are marked with whole numbers from 0 to 100. If one disc is drawn at random from the
box, find the probability that it bears (i) a two-digit number (ii) a perfect square number (iii) a
number with at least one digit 0.
13. Discuss the concept of empirical probability and classical probability and its use in daily life
decision making in 250 words.
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Unit and assessment:

Community Project with use of central tendencies and probability based data interpretations
to conclude and peasant the facts.