Addis Ababa University
Department of Accounting and Finance
Assignment for Basic Statistics (2nd year students) (15%)
1. Classify the following sentences as belonging to the area of descriptive statistics or
inferential statistics.
a) As a result of recent cutbacks by oil-producing nations, we can expect the price of
gasoline to double in the next year.
b) At least 5% of all killings reported last year in city X were due to tourists.
c) Of all patients who received this particular type of drug at a clinic Y, 75% later
developed significant side effect.
d) Adane concludes that his chance of passing the first year this academic year is at
least 80% based on the statistics that 75% of the freshmen passed last year.
2. Classify each of the following first as qualitative or quantitative and second as nominal
(categorical) ordinal interval or ratio measure.
a) Times for swimmers to complete a 50-meter race
b) Months of the year Meskerm, Tikimit…
c) Socioeconomic status of a family when classified as low, middle and upper classes.
d) Blood type of individuals, A, B, AB and O.
e) Pollen counts provided as numbers between 1 and 10 where 1 implies there is
almost no pollen and 10 that it is rampant, but for which the values do not represent
an actual counts of grains of pollen.
f) Regions numbers of Ethiopia (1, 2, 3 etc.)
g) The number of students in a college;
h) the net wages of a group of workers;
i) the height of the men in the same town;
3. Which of the diagrams is most appropriate for each of the following data set? Draw the
diagrams.
a. Students enrolled to a certain department from year 1 to 3
Year Male Female
1 50 20
2 45 15
3 40 10
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b. Net profit (in million birr) earned by different companies in 2020
Company Net profit
A 20
B 15
C 30
4. A. Construct a frequency distribution of weights of miniature poodles if the class marks are
6.5, 8.5, 10.5, 12.5 and 14.5 kgs with corresponding frequencies 8, 12, 22, 17 and 3.
B. Draw frequency polygon for above data.
5. Following is a cumulative distribution table showing the number of packages and the number
of times a given number of packages was received by a post office in 60 days:
No. of packages below: 10 20 30 40 50 60
No. of times received in 60 days: 17 22 29 37 50 69
Obtain the frequency table from it. Also, present the data using Histogram.
6. Given below is raw data on ages of 40 employees of a certain organization.
A. Construct a frequency distribution including the class boundaries, class marks the
relative frequencies, the less than and more than cumulative frequencies.
B. Draw Histogram for the data given using 8 classes.
62 58 53 27 30 31 26 34 49 47 48 41
50 61 40 47 41 43 50 45 43 32 37 31
35 38 29 65 58 43 44 41 37 27 62 65
36 42 63 50
7. The frequency distribution below shows the number of freshmen, sophomore, juniors, and
seniors who attended a workshop on job opportunities in the news media. Construct a Pie
Chart for the data.
Group Frequency
Freshmen 18
Sophomore 12
Juniors 6
Seniors 4
