Exercises for SBLC Students
Worksheet No. 1
Name: ____________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Score: ________________
Course/Year/Section: _______________________________________ Instructor: ______________________________________
Instruction: Classify the following students as belonging to the area of Descriptive Statistics or Inferential Statistics.
__________________________ 1. The incidence of a particular disease among smokers was found to be 20 per 120,000 per
year, while among non-smokers it was found to be 5 per 120,000 per year.
__________________________ 2. Of all the patients who have received Drug A at a local clinic, 75% later developed significant
side effects.
__________________________ 3. As a result of recent cutbacks by the oil-producing nations, we can expect the price of
gasoline to increase by 25% next year.
__________________________ 4. A study is conducted to determine the relationship between the performance of first-year
students in Algebra and their high school mathematics grades. A researcher considered 150
students.
__________________________ 5. A study was conducted on 100 smokers, and it came up with the finding that smokers tend
to get lower grades in college than non-smokers.
__________________________ 6. The price movement of 40 issues of stock is analyzed to determine whether stocks in general
have increased or decreased during a specific period.
__________________________ 7. A graph is constructed for the purpose of presenting the passenger-kilometers flown by
various commercial airlines in the Philippines.
Instruction: State which of the following represent Discrete Data or Continuous Data
__________________________ 8. The monthly income of graduate students
__________________________ 9. The weight of the newborn babies was recorded at the nursery hospital
__________________________ 10. The number of fouls per game
__________________________ 11. The number of patients in Fatima Hospital
__________________________ 12. Daily temperature during summer
__________________________ 13. The number of newspapers sold in a particular district on April 25, 1997
__________________________ 14. The time it takes to finish washing your clothes
__________________________ 15. Number of temperatures recorded in a day
__________________________ 16. Thickness of books
__________________________ 17. The ages of 10 students
__________________________ 18. The number of houses in Valenzuela
__________________________ 19. Dillena Family
__________________________ 20. Enrolment for First/Second Semester
Instruction: Identify the appropriate level of measurement for each of the following:
__________________________ 21. The passing score in a major examination.
__________________________ 22. The ages of 100 students.
__________________________ 23. The monthly income of doctors.
__________________________ 24. The temperatures of 6 patients were recorded in 4 hrs.
__________________________ 25. Blood pressures of 40 adult females.
__________________________ 26. The different religions in the country.
__________________________ 27. The manager of a company classifies the performances of his employees as good, average,
or low.
__________________________ 28. Gender of 30 respondents.
__________________________ 29. Taste of 20 pineapples.
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__________________________ 30. Height of buildings.
Worksheet No. 2
Name: ____________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Score: ________________
Course/Year/Section: _______________________________________ Instructor: ______________________________________
Instruction: Identify the type of sampling used. (5 points)
__________________________ 1. Nokia selects every 25th cell phone from the assembly line for careful testing and analysis.
__________________________ 2. The Dean of CAS surveys all students from each of the 12 randomly selected classes.
__________________________ 3. A medical student interviews all dengue patients in each of the 10 randomly selected
Barangays.
__________________________ 4. In conducting research for a psychology course, a student interviews 50 students who are
leaving the canteen.
__________________________ 5. In a classroom, the teacher writes the name of each student on a separate index card,
shuffles the cards, then draws 15 names.
Solve the following:
1. How many samples must be considered from a population of 28,000 students, if 5% margin of error is to be used? (4 Points)
Solution:
2. Considering the 5800 enrollees in the College of Education, a researcher would like to make a study with 97.25% precision.
How many samples must be taken? (4 points)
Solutions:
3. Determine the number of samples that must be taken from each year level, if a 95% decision is considered. (17 points)
NUMBER OF STUDENTS
YEAR LEVEL SOLUTION SAMPLE
ENROLLED
First Year 5,800
Second Year 6,980
Third Year 12,600
Fourth Year 14,750
TOTAL SAMPLE SIZE
Solutions:
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Worksheet No. 3
Name: ____________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Score: ________________
Course/Year/Section: _______________________________________ Instructor: ______________________________________
Fill the following spaces. (27 points)
Amount of
Magnesium F >CF < CF RF PF
(mg/liter)
6.1 – 7.0 6
7.1 – 8.0 8
8.1 – 9.0 14
9.1 – 10.0 16
10.1 – 11.0 10
11.1 – 12.0 6
i = ______
Answer the following, using the table above.
28. What is the class size of the distribution? _______________________
29. What is the class boundary of the 3rd interval? _______________________
30. What is the highest interval of the data? _______________________
31. What is the class mark of the 2nd interval? _______________________
32. What is the upper limit of the last class interval? _______________________
33. What is the total frequency of the distribution? _______________________
34. What is the upper class limit of the first interval? _______________________
35. How many class intervals does it have? _______________________
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Worksheet No. 4
Name: _____________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Score: ________________
Course/Year/Section: ________________________________________ Instructor: ______________________________________
Frequency Distribution
Listed below are the diastolic blood pressures in mmHg of a random sample of 45 men.
82 84 92 62 90 89 82 76 78
79 73 89 70 85 90 84 77 70
80 68 70 60 91 85 69 89 62
65 80 71 74 79 83 68 80 76
90 85 82 84 82 80 74 68 68
A. Construct a grouped frequency distribution and complete the table below. (80 points)
CLASS CLASS CLASS MARK
CLASS CF
INTERVAL TALLY FREQUENCY OR MIDPOINT RF PF
BOUNDARIES
(CI) (f) (x) < CF >CF
Solutions:
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Worksheet No. 5
Name: _______________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Score: ________________
Course/Year/Section: __________________________________________ Instructor: ______________________________________
Measures of Central Tendency
Instruction: Show your solutions.
Ungrouped Data
1. From the given data below: Find the mean, median, and mode.
A. 35, 44,20, 28, 33, 28, 38, 22, 29, 40, 29
B. -2, 4, 5,6, -7, 2, 3, 2, 1, -3, -5, 1, 2, 0
2. A medical practitioner is studying the average weight (in pounds) of an athlete in the Olympics. The following
data are obtained: What measure of central tendency is best to use in the study? _________________
Data: 168, 219, 140, 188, 250, 145, 178, 192, 208, 134
3. The frequency table below provides the yield in gram of 200 evenly-spaced soy bean plants and corresponding
frequencies: compute for the appropriate measure of central tendency _________________
Yield 3 8 13 18 23 28 33 38 43 48 53 58 63 68
Frequenc
5 3 5 14 30 37 35 23 20 17 4 4 2 1
y
Grouped Data
1. The data below shows frequency distributions of fasting serum triglyceride of 100 male nursing students:
CLASS CLASS MARK
Serum CLASS CF
FREQUENCY OR MIDPOINT fx
Triglyceride BOUNDARIES
(f) (x) < CF >CF
60 – 76 14
77 – 93 17
94 – 110 31
111 – 127 28
128 – 144 10
i= Σf = Σfx =
A. Complete the table.
B. Solve for the mean, median, and mode.
Mean ________________ ; Median ________________ ; Mode ________________
Show your solutions at the back.
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Worksheet No. 6
Name: _______________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Score: ________________
Course/Year/Section: __________________________________________ Instructor: ______________________________________
Other Measures of Central Tendency
Instruction: Show your solutions.
Ungrouped Data 2. The data below shows frequency distributions
of fasting serum triglyceride of 100 female
1. The scores obtained by 30 students in the pharmacy students:
Preliminary Examination in MAT 3. Find the
required score:
P85= _______________ Q3 = _______________ CI f x Fx
D4= _______________ P18 = _______________
5–9 14
DATA:
10 – 14 17
3 2
66 78 90 ITEM x 15 – 19
4 9 31
9 5 20 – 24 28
44 71 85 1
5 7
25 – 29 10
6 3
44 56 74 2
6 5 i= Σf = Σfx =
3 4
66 88 49 3
9 0
2 3 P70= _______________ Q1 = _______________
25 43 60 4 D3= _______________ P47 = _______________
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