ELEMENTARY STATISTICS

Assignment 1:
Solve all the questions and submit your hand-written assignment in PDF format by 10 th
February 2022

Q. 1. The marks of statistics of 200 students are given below.

A. Make a discrete frequency distribution table from the following data.
B. Make a grouped frequency distribution table with 5 marks interval from the following data.

70 45 33 64 50 25 65 75 30 20 41 53
48 21 28 55 60 65 58 52 36 45 42 35
40 30 33 37 35 29 51 47 39 61 53 59
49 41 15 53 43 32 24 38 38 42 63 78
65 45 63 54 52 48 46 46 50 26 15 23
57 53 55 42 45 39 64 35 26 18 41 38
40 37 40 49 42 36 41 29 46 40 32 34
44 54 35 39 31 48 37 38 40 32 49 48
50 43 55 43 39 41 48 53 34 22 41 50
17 46 32 31 42 34 34 32 33 24 43 39
42 25 52 38 46 40 50 27 47 34 44 34
33 47 42 48 45 30 28 31 17 42 57 35
38 17 33 46 36 23 42 21 51 37 42 37
38 42 49 52 38 53 57 47 59 61 33 17
71 39 44 42 39 16 17 27 19 54 51 39
43 42 16 37 67 62 39 51 53 41 53 59
37 27 29 33 34 42 22 31

Q. 2 A college management wanted to give scholarships to B. Com. students securing 60 per cent and
above marks in the following manner : The marks of 30 students who were eligible for scholarship are
given below :
74, 62, 84, 72, 61, 83, 72, 81, 64, 71, 63, 61, 60, 67, 74, 66, 64, 69, 71, 75, 78, 88, 79, 73, 75, 76, 69, 68,
78 and 67.
Calculate the monthly scholarship paid to the students.

Percentage of Marks Monthly Scholarship In

Rs.
60—65 2500
65—70 3000
70—75 3500
75—80 4000
 80—85 5000
85—90 8000
Q.3 Prepare a Less Than Cumulative Frequency table for the following frequency distribution.
Percentage of Marks No. of Students
60—65 15
65—70 22
70—75 35
75—80 18
80—85 10
85—90 8

Q. 4. Convert the following distribution into ‘more than’ frequency distribution.

Percentage of Marks No. of Students
60—65 15
65—70 22
70—75 35
75—80 18
80—85 10
85—90 8

Q.5. Convert the following distribution into ‘more than’ frequency distribution.
Weekly Wages (Less than Rs. ) No. of Workers
2000 41
4000 92
6000 156
8000 194
1000 201

Q. 6 A data set contains the following observations:

3, 8, 5, 6, 10, 9, 7.
What is the arithmetic mean and Median of the data set?
Q. 7 A data set contains the following observations:
13, 18, 25, 16, 10, 17.
What is the arithmetic mean and Median of the data set?
Q. 8 For a class consisting of 60 students, a test on English was conducted. The marks obtained by the
students are given below:
Marks obtained out of 125 Numbers of students
5 - 25 7
25 - 45 15
45 - 65 18
65 - 85 12
85 -105 6
105 -125 2
Calculate the median and modal marks obtained by the students in the class?

Q. 9 What is the median and modal marks obtained by the students in the class?
Percentage of Marks No. of Students
60—65 15
65—70 22
70—75 28
75—80 15
80—85 12
85—90 8

Q. 10 From the information in Q. 10, calculate first quartile and 3rd quartile.
Q. 11 From the information in Q. 10, calculate Absolute quartile deviation and coefficient of quartile
deviations.
Q. 12 Calculate the mean deviation from mean and standard deviation of marks obtained by the students
in the class?
Percentage of Marks No. of Students
60—65 15
65—70 22
70—75 28
75—80 15
80—85 12
85—90 8

Q. 13 Calculate the Arithmetic mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation for the following
frequency distribution.
Class Interval 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
Series A 10 16 34 38 24 18
Series B 5 8 45 40 15 7
Q. 14 As study was conducted on the daily wages earned by the unskilled labourers in an industrial area.
The observations from the survey are given below:
 Daily wages (in Rs.) No of Labourers in City A No of Labourers in City B
250 – 350 35 15
350 – 450 45 25
450 – 550 20 32
550 – 650 15 28
650 – 750 10 18
750 – 850 5 12
Calculate the Arithmetic mean, Median, Mode, 1 st Quartile and 3rd Quartile of daily wage earned by the
unskilled labourers of the two different cities.
Q. 15 As study was conducted on the daily wages earned by the unskilled labourers in an industrial area.
The observations from the survey are given below:
Daily wages (in Rs.) No of Labourers in City A No of Labourers in City B
250 – 350 35 15
350 – 450 45 25
450 – 550 20 32
550 – 650 15 28
650 – 750 10 18
750 – 850 5 12
Q. 16 From the information in Q. 15, Calculate Mean Deviation from Arithmetic mean and standard
deviation of daily wage earned by the unskilled labourers of the two different cities.
Q. 17 From the information in Q. 15, Calculate Absolute Quartile Deviation and Coefficient of Quartile
Deviation of daily wage earned by the unskilled labourers of the two different cities.
Q. 18 From the information in Q. 15, Calculate Coefficient of variation and Skewness.
Q. 19 Calculate the Arithmetic mean, median and Mode for the runs scored by the two cricketers given in
the following table.
Runs Score 0 - 20 20 - 40 40 - 60 60 - 80 80 - 100 100 -120
No. of Matches Ajinkya 10 16 34 38 24 18
No. of Matches Suresh 2 8 40 42 15 13
Q. 20 Calculate the skewness for the runs scored by the two cricketers given in Q. 19.
Q. 21 Calculate the Arithmetic mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation for the following
two cricketers based on the number of matches they played. If one of the players is to be selected, whom
would you like to select?
Runs Score 0 - 20 20 - 40 40 - 60 60 - 80 80 - 100 100 -120
No. of Matches Ajinkya 10 16 34 38 24 18
No. of Matches Suresh 2 8 40 42 15 13

Q.22 The following table shows information about the rate of return of a mutual fund. Find out the annual
average rate of return from the Mutual Fund using a suitable method of average.

Years 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Return from a mutual fund (in %) -10 -8 5 20 14
Q.23 By using a suitable method of average find out the average speed per hour from the following
information shown in the table. Compare your result with Arithmetic mean of the same group of
information.

Speed 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60

Kilometers Travelled 4 12 20 70 80 20

Q. 24 The observations from a population are presented in the following frequency distribution:
Number of
Class interval
observations
10 – 20 5
20 – 30 15
30 – 40 17
40 – 50 25
50 – 60 18
60 – 70 10
70 – 80 6
80 – 90 4
Total number of observations in the population 100
What is the standard deviation of the population?
Q. 25 The following details are available with regard to two groups of data, A and B:
Group Number of observations Mean Standard deviation
A 15 20 4
B 25 16 2
What is the combined standard deviation for both the groups?

Q. 26 The following details are available with regard to two populations, A and B:
Number of Standard
Group Mean
observations deviation
A 30 10 4
B 20 15 6
What is the combined standard deviation for both the populations?

Theory Type Questions

1. What do you understand by central tendency? Under what conditions is median more suitable
than other measures of central tendency?

2. What do you understand by mode? Discuss its relative merits and demerits as a measure of
central tendency. Also give two practical situations where you will recommend the use of mode.

3. What are the criteria of a good average? Compare the mean, the median and the mode in the
light of these criteria. Why are averages called measures of central tendency?
4. How would you account for the predominant choice of arithmetic mean of statistical data as a
measure of central tendency? Under what circumstances would it be appropriate to use mode
or median?
5. Point out the merits and demerits of the mean the median, and the mode as measure of central
tendency of numerical data.
6. Explain the relative merits of geometric mean over other measures of central tendency
7. If the population has doubled itself in twenty years, is it correct to say that the rate of growth
has been 5% per annum?
8. Define Harmonic Mean and discuss its merits and demerits. Under what situations would you
recommend its use.
9. Explain with suitable example the term variation. What purposes does a measure of variation
serve? Comment on some of the well-known measures of variation along with their respective
merits and demerits.
10. What is meant by dispersion? In your opinion which is the best method of finding out dispersion
and why?
11. What are the chief requisites of a good measure of dispersion? In the light of those, comment
on some of the well-known measures of dispersion and discuss their uses.
12. What do you understand by absolute and relative measures of dispersion? Explain advantages
of the relative measures over the absolute measures of dispersion. (b) Define mean deviation
and standard deviation. Explain, why economists prefer mean deviation to standard deviation in
their analysis.
13. Explain the mathematical properties of standard deviation. Why is standard deviation used
more than mean deviation? Or. Explain the superiority of standard deviation over other
measures of dispersion
14. What do you understand by absolute and relative measure of dispersion? Explain advantages of
the relative measures over the absolute measures of dispersion.
15. What do you understand by coefficient of variation? What purpose does it serve?