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Statistics Problems for Students

The document contains 5 problems related to frequency distributions. Problem 1 asks to represent data on number of children per family in a frequency distribution. Problem 2 asks to form a frequency distribution table for student weights. Problem 3 asks to form a continuous frequency distribution for ages. Problem 4 asks to calculate frequency density from a given distribution. Problem 5 asks to prepare a frequency distribution for number of letters in words from a passage and obtain additional information from the distribution.

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Statistics Problems for Students

The document contains 5 problems related to frequency distributions. Problem 1 asks to represent data on number of children per family in a frequency distribution. Problem 2 asks to form a frequency distribution table for student weights. Problem 3 asks to form a continuous frequency distribution for ages. Problem 4 asks to calculate frequency density from a given distribution. Problem 5 asks to prepare a frequency distribution for number of letters in words from a passage and obtain additional information from the distribution.

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Unit 1 : Introduction to Statistics

Problems on Frequency Distribution

Problem No. 1

In a survey of 40 families in a village, the number of children per family was recorded and the following
data obtained.

10321562

21034216

32153324

22302145

33441245

Represent the data in the form of a discrete frequency distribution.

Problem No. 2

The Following are the weights of 50 Students.

47 51 48 46 52 60 44 45 57 66

56 48 43 69 53 54 41 57 65 49

43 56 54 63 50 43 52 48 59 61

53 64 55 47 45 56 61 62 53 45

64 43 54 53 60 41 52 63 54 45

Form a frequency distribution table taking width of Class Interval 5 using:

a. Inclusive class Interval

b. Exclusive Class Interval

c. Calculate relative frequency.

Problem No. 3

The Following data gives ages of 32 individuals in a locality. Form a continuous frequency distribution
using exclusive type of class intervals.
23 46 08 13 29 36 28 01

19 28 33 11 20 28 10 59

30 43 39 30 21 40 33 36

29 21 40 16 41 19 20 31

Problem No. 4

Calculate Frequency density from the following details.

Class Frequencies
Interval (f)

0–5 3

5 – 10 10

10 – 20 25

20 – 40 15

Problem No. 5

Prepare a frequency distribution of the number of letters in a word from the following excerpt (ignore
punctuation marks).

“In the beginning”, said a Persian Poet, “Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a

Dead Sea Apple and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgam – it was a woman.”

Also obtain:

(i) the number of words with 6 letters or more,

(ii) the proportion of words with 5 letters or less, and

(iii) the percentage of words with number of letters between 2 and 8 (i.e., more than 2 but less than 8).

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