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The document contains tutorial questions for a statistics course, covering topics such as the differentiation between sample and population, various sampling techniques, and data collection methods. It also includes practical exercises involving frequency distribution, calculation of mean, median, mode, and standard deviation based on given data sets. Additionally, students are tasked with creating histograms and cumulative frequency curves.

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Statistics Tutorial

The document contains tutorial questions for a statistics course, covering topics such as the differentiation between sample and population, various sampling techniques, and data collection methods. It also includes practical exercises involving frequency distribution, calculation of mean, median, mode, and standard deviation based on given data sets. Additionally, students are tasked with creating histograms and cumulative frequency curves.

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INSTITUTE OF FINANCE MANAGEMENT

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS


ACT05103, BFT05105, CST05106, IRT05104, ITT05106, SPT05105, TMT05106

Basic mathematics and statistics

STATISTICS TUTORIAL QUESTIONS 2023/2024

Question One

a) Differentiate the following concept as applied in statistics.


i) Sample and population
ii) Sample and censuses
iii) Descriptive and inferential statistics
iv) Stratified sampling and Quota sampling
b) Explain the following sampling techniques.
i) Simple random sampling
ii) Systematic sampling
iii) Cluster sampling
iv) Convenience sampling
c) Explain the following data collection methods.
i) Questionnaires
ii) interview
iii) Observation
iv) Documentary review
v) Experimentation

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Question two

In a recent issue of the NBAA magazine, 84 accounting conferences were announced. Four
conferences lasted two days. Thirty-six lasted three days. Eighteen lasted four days. Nineteen
lasted five days. Four lasted six days. One lasted seven days. One lasted eight days. One
lasted nine days. Let X = length (in days) of an accounting conference.
i) Organize the data in a frequency distribution table.
ii) Find the mean, mode and median of the data.
iii) Calculate the standard deviation of the data.

Question three

The following table shows that monthly expenditures of 80 students of a university on morning
breakfast.

Expenditure (Tsh ‘000) Number of students


78 – 82 2
73 – 77 6
68 – 72 7
63 – 67 12
58 – 62 18
53 – 57 13
48 – 52 9
43 – 47 7
38 – 42 4
33 – 37 2

i) Find the arithmetic mean, median and mode.


ii) Calculate the standard deviation.
iii) Draw the histogram and frequency polygon on the same graph.
iv) Draw a more-than and a less-than cumulative frequency curve on the same graph.

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Question Four

a) Given the data below.

56 76 78 45 34 67 45 67 89 70

23 45 23 45 34 45 45 67 74 34

34 36 45 46 35 57 67 58 54 56

78 75 78 47 36 67 58 69 65 76

79 49 65 48 87 67 45 60 65 87

56 60 56 49 76 68 68 64 65 79

76 76 57 39 67 69 69 65 75 67

74 58 58 48 57 56 67 63 75 78

i) Compile a grouped frequency distribution for these data.


ii) Draw the histogram, frequency polygon, less than and more than cumulative frequency
curves.
iii) Evaluate the mean, median, mode, and Standard deviation.

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