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This document provides examples to classify different types of data and statistics. It contains 5 sections: Section I asks to identify whether descriptive or inferential statistics should be used in 20 situations. Section II classifies variables as qualitative or quantitative in 10 situations. Section III determines if data is discrete or continuous in 20 cases. Section IV labels different scales of measurement as nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio in 25 situations. Section V provides a data set and calculates 7 different summations and statistical expressions.

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This document provides examples to classify different types of data and statistics. It contains 5 sections: Section I asks to identify whether descriptive or inferential statistics should be used in 20 situations. Section II classifies variables as qualitative or quantitative in 10 situations. Section III determines if data is discrete or continuous in 20 cases. Section IV labels different scales of measurement as nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio in 25 situations. Section V provides a data set and calculates 7 different summations and statistical expressions.

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I. Decide whether a descriptive or inferential statistics will be used in each of the given situations.

Write D for
descriptive and I for inferential.

D 1. Average price of houses in Laguna.


I 2. The forecast of PAGASA in the number of typhoons that will hit the Philippines in the upcoming
years due to global warming.
D 3. Enrollment record of all colleges and universities in the Philippines.
D 4. As a result of a recent school survey, many students are not in favor of divorce.
D 5. In a certain airline, 40% of the stewardess who had taken birth control pills developed significant
ill side effects.
I 6. A company projects 50% growth in the next five years after analyzing its revenue for the past five
years.
D 7. Last year’s report showed at least 8% of all fires in a certain city were caused by children playing
with matches.
I 8. As a result of recent cutbacks by many government offices, we can expect the unemployment rate
to double in the next year.
D 9. A manager wants to know the average age of his 50 rank-and-file employees.
D 10. After studying the effects of the gradual increase in dosage of a certain drug on cancer patients,
a scientist concludes that the drug can arrest cancer cell growth at increased quantities.
D 11. A CEO wishes to obtain information from his managers by asking them to fill out a managerial
and executive practices profile.
I 12. A sports writer wishes to list the highest goal makers in all basketball games in the last five
NCAA seasons.
I 13. A fresh milk distributor wants to estimate the average life of milk in storage by studying milk
spoilage in the past six months.
D 14. Financial analyst says that mortgage may soon hit bottom.
D 15. The monthly average expenditure of per household is P10,000.
I 16. The guard in the SM Megamall records the number of shoppers for the past 15 days.
D 17. The Philippine Regulation Commission (PRC) ranks the result of the Certified Public
Accountants professional examination in 2010.
I 18. One hundred customers have their corresponding age and buying preference results. The
manager wants to determine its relationship.
I 19. The effects of AHIN1 (Swine Flu) virus to the death rate worldwide.
I 20. A researcher tested the difference on the customers buying preference in different brands of
milk.
II. Write L if variable if Qualitative, and N if Quantitative.
N 1. Cost of personal computers.
N 2. Net weight (in grams) of packaged cereal
L 3. Political party affiliation of civil service workers
N 4. Number of bankrupt corporations per month in the Philippines
L 5. Favorite department store
N 6. Amount of money spent on clothing
L 7. Type of telephone
L 8. Primary mode of transportation of students
N 9. Useful lifetimes (in hours) of 100-watt light bulbs
L 10. Time period during which shopping takes place (weekdays, weeknights, or weekend)

III. Write D if Discrete and C if Continuous.

C 1. Air pressure of a tire


D 2. Number of LBC branches
D 3. Family size
C 4. Square root of 2.
C 5. Altitude of a mountain
D 6. Outcome in rolling a pair of dice
D 7. Number of online purchases made in a week
C 8. Weight of students in a certain school
D 9. Toyota Vios sales in a month
D 10. Number of deaths caused by Lung cancer
D 11. The number of DVDs rented in a video shop each day.
C 12. Water temperature of 10 rivers
D 13. Number of pizzas sold each day
C 14. Capacity (in gallons) of 5 reservoirs in the Philippines
D 15. Current assets of MSS Textile Company
D 16. The number of television per household
C 17. Amount of time surfing the net
C 18. Refueling time required by a maintenance crew
D 19. Daily allowance of a voter
D 20. Number of small business in Goa

IV. Write N if Nominal, O if Ordinal, I if Interval and R if Ratio.

N 1. GSIS number
O 2. Sibling place in a family
O 3. Teacher’s rank
I 4. Temperature measured in Kelvin scale
Z 5. LET results in the last examination
N 6. Number of MRT passengers from Recto to Santolan station
N 7. Courses offered in university belt
I 8. Evaluation of students to faculty using the Likert scale
I/N 9. Number of votes in each senatorial candidate
I 10. Emotional quotient of employees
O 11. Performance rating of students in Statistics
R 12. Weight of students in a certain public school
N/I 13. Political affiliation of politicians
N 14. Nationality of certain individual
O 15. Ranking of tennis players
N 16. Marital status of clients in a certain bank
R 17. Pages in the PLDT telephone book
I 18. Time required for engineers to do certain project
Z 19. Shirt size for the Intramurals
R 20. Ages of companies in Makati Business Club members
Z 21. Blood type of the mother
O 22. Educational attainment of Barangay captain
Z 23. Serial number of car motors
Z 24. Flavor of ice cream
R 25. Height of a mercury in a Barometer

V. Given the data set, compute for the following summations:

Data Set on Height (cm) and Weight (lbs.) of 8 Students

Student no. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Height(x) 168 141 165 180 165 156 150 147
Weight (y) 110 90 120 125 142 97 105 110

1. ∑ Xi = 168 + 141 + 165 + 180 + 165 + 156 + 150 + 147 = 1,272


2. ∑ Yi = 110 + 90 + 120 + 125 + 142 + 97 + 105 + 110 = 899
3. (∑ Xi) = (1,272) = 1, 617, 984
2 2

4. (∑ Yi ) = (899) = 808, 201


2 2

5. ∑ Xi = 168 + 141 + 165 + 180 + 165 + 156 + 150 + 147


2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

= 28224 + 19881 + 27225 + 32400 + 27225 + 24336 + 22500 + 21609


= 203, 400
6. ∑ Yi 2 = 1102 + 902 + 1202 + 1252 + 1422 + 972 + 1052 + 1102
=12100 + 8100 + 14400 + 15625 + 20164 + 9409 + 11025 + 12100
= 102, 923
7. ∑ XiYi = 168 (110) + 141 (90) + 165 (120) + 180 (125) + 165 (142) + 156 (97) + 150 (105) +
147 (110)
=18480 +12690 + 19800 +22500 + 23430 + 15132 + 15750 + 16170
= 143, 952
8. ∑ X i ∑ Y i = 1,272 (899) = 1,143,528

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