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This document is a handout for a Probability and Statistics course, focusing on measures of central tendency and dispersion. It includes various questions and tasks related to data analysis, such as creating graphs, calculating mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, and constructing box plots. Additionally, it involves comparing data from different companies and analyzing the distribution characteristics through skewness and kurtosis.

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MoCT & Disp Handout#1

This document is a handout for a Probability and Statistics course, focusing on measures of central tendency and dispersion. It includes various questions and tasks related to data analysis, such as creating graphs, calculating mean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation, and constructing box plots. Additionally, it involves comparing data from different companies and analyzing the distribution characteristics through skewness and kurtosis.

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PROBABILITY & STATISTICS (MT-331)

DEPARTMENT :SE(EE) BATCH 2025


MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY & DISPERSION
HANDOUT#1

Q1 - The following are the number of transistors failing a quality check per hour during 72
observed hours of production:

246812185461 018234125118 219142568171


491824118553 091971887772 712735885990
(a) Draw stem & leaf Graph?
(b) Group these data into a frequency distribution showing how often each of the values
occurs and draw a bar chart?
(c) Calculate A.M G.M & H.M?

Q2-An electric engineer monitored the flow of current in a circuit by measuring the flow of
electrons and the resistance of the medium. Over 11 hours, she observed a flow of
5 12 8 16 13 10 9 11 14 7 8 amperes.
(a) Create a stem & leaf graph.
(b) Find the mode ,median and the mean & with the help of mean median & mode write
comments on the shape of the distribution??
(c) Find the variance and the standard deviation?
(d) Find the quartiles?
(e) Find the minimum, maximum, range, and interquartile range?
(f) Construct a boxplot?
(g) Calculate 68% range of the given data?
(h) Calculate skewness & kurtosis with the help of moment about mean & write comments?

Q3- A. Michelson (1852–1931) made many series of measurements of the speed of light. Using
a revolving mirror technique, he obtained
12 30 30 27 30 39 18 27 48 24 18
for the differences (velocity of light in air) − (229,700) km/s (Source: The Astrophysical Journal
65 (1927): 11.)
(a) Find the mean median and the mode?
(b) Find the variance and standard deviation?
(c) Define five number summary & Draw Box Plot?
(d) Find interquartile range & Quartile deviation?
(e) Calculate Skewness & Kurtosis with the help of moment about origin & write comments?

SHUMAILA USMAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT)
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS (MT-331)
DEPARTMENT :SE(EE) BATCH 2025
MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY & DISPERSION
HANDOUT#1

Q4-An engineer was assigned the task of calculating the average time spent by vehicles waiting
at traffic signals. The signal timing (in seconds) would then be modified to reduce the pressure
of traffic. The observations of average waiting time during the month of January are:
58 63 58 12 24 47 46 29 42 68 33 43 37 39 52 35 44 35 49 36
64 53 28 55 27 53 55 64 37 31 61
(a) Draw Frequency distribution table?
(b) Obtain the quartiles?
(c) Obtain the 95th percentile.
(d) Construct a histogram
( e) Calculate skewness & kurtosis with the help of moment about mean & write comments?

Q5-Define five number summary of box plot & write comments?

Q6-In a study conducted by the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech, the
steel rods supplied by two different companies were compared. Ten sample springs were
made out of the steel rods supplied by each company, and a measure of flexibility was
recorded for each. The data are as follows:
Company A: 9.3 8.8 6.8 8.7 8.5 6.7 8.0 6.5 9.2 7.0
Company B: 11.0 9.8 9.9 10.2 10.1 9.7 11.0 11.1 10.2 9.6
which company is consistent?

Q7-(a) Draw frequency distribution table with the help of graph?


(b) Calculate Q1 Q2 & Q3 & write comments with the help of Quartiles?
(C) Verify result with the help of Graph?
(d) Calculate mode?
(e) Calculate inter quartile range.Also calculate 9th Decile?

SHUMAILA USMAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT)
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS (MT-331)
DEPARTMENT :SE(EE) BATCH 2025
MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY & DISPERSION
HANDOUT#1

Q6 -(a) Draw frequency distribution table with the help of graph?


(b) Calculate skewness & kurtosis with the help of moment about mean?
(c) Write comments on the shape of distribution?
(d) Calculate coeffient of variation?
(e ) Calculate 99% range of the given data?

SHUMAILA USMAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT)
PROBABILITY & STATISTICS (MT-331)
DEPARTMENT :SE(EE) BATCH 2025
MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY & DISPERSION
HANDOUT#1

Q7 -(a) Draw frequency distribution table with the help of graph?


(b) Calculate A.M,G.M, H.M

SHUMAILA USMAN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT)

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