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Chapter 3 Exercise

This document provides 8 practice exercises for calculating mean, median, mode, and other statistical measures from data sets. The exercises include: 1) finding the mean number of days off per year for 9 individuals, 2) calculating mean miles run for a sample of 20 runners, 3) determining the median number of tornadoes over 8 years in the US, and 4) more.

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Chapter 3 Exercise

This document provides 8 practice exercises for calculating mean, median, mode, and other statistical measures from data sets. The exercises include: 1) finding the mean number of days off per year for 9 individuals, 2) calculating mean miles run for a sample of 20 runners, 3) determining the median number of tornadoes over 8 years in the US, and 4) more.

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Mary’s University
Statistics for Management 1
Exercise for chapter 3
1. The data represent the number of days off per year for a sample of individuals selected from nine
different countries. Find the mean.
20, 26, 40, 36, 23, 42, 35, 24, 30
2. Using the following frequency distribution, find the mean. The data represent the
number of miles run during one week for a sample of 20 runners.

Class Frequency
5.5–10.5 1
10.5–15.5 2
15.5–20.5 3
20.5–25.5 5
25.5–30.5 4
30.5–35.5 3
35.5–40.5 2

3. The number of tornadoes that have occurred in the United States over an 8-year period follows.
Find the median.
684, 764, 656, 702, 856, 1133, 1132, 1303
4. Six customers purchased these numbers of magazines: 1, 7, 3, 2, 3, 4. Find the
median.
5. Find the mode for the number of coal employees per county for 10 selected counties in southwestern
Pennsylvania.
110, 731, 1031, 84, 20, 118, 1162, 1977, 103, 752
6. The data show the number of licensed nuclear reactors in the United States for a recent
15-year period. Find the mode.

104 104 104 104 104


107 109 109 109 110
109 111 112 111 109

7. A student received an A in English Composition I (3 credits), a C in Introduction to Psychology (3


reedits), a B in Biology I (4 credits), and a D in Physical Education (2 credits). Assuming A 4 grade
points, B 3 grade points, C 2 grade points, D 1 grade point, and F 0 grade points, find the student’s
grade point average
8. Commissions Earned This frequency distribution represents the commission earned (in
dollars) by 100 salespeople employed at several branches of a large chain store. then find.
A. Mean,
B. Median and
C. Modal value
Class Limit Frequency
150–158 5
159–167 16
168–176 20
177–185 21
186–194 20
195–203 15
204–212 3
D. If the mean of five values is 64, find the sum of the values.
E. If the mean of five values is 8.2 and four of the values are 6, 10, 7, and 12, find the
fifth value.
F. Find the mean of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50.

A. Add 10 to each value and find the mean.


B. Subtract 10 from each value and find the mean.
C. Multiply each value by 10 and find the mean

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