Assignment No.

1 (Course STA301)
Spring 2012 (Total Marks 15)
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This assignment will strengthen the basic idea about the concept of
measure of central tendency.

Assignment.1 (Lessons 1-9)

Question 1:
Marks: 3+2+2=7
The following data shows the ages of 50 cancer patients admitted in Shaukat Khanam Memorial Hospital,
Lahore.
48 29 31 32 54 33 44 36 38 31
46 30 20 44 47 39 42 35 33 47
31 35 34 42 41 42 43 35 32 35
43 36 37 45 46 41 25 27 26 40
38 41 44 47 45 45 52 43 44 43
Make a frequency distribution and also find class boundaries and mid points.(take interval 5,starting from
20 as lower value).
Solution 1:
We will start building classes from 20 as this is the smallest value in our Dataset.
For Class Boundaries ((20-.05) (24+.05)) = 19.5 24.5 and so on.
For finding Mid Points (19.5+24.5)/2=22 and so on.
Class Limits
20 24
25 29
30 34
35 39
40 44
45 49
50 54

Class Boundaries
19.5 24.5
24.5 29.5
29.5 34.5
34.5 39.5
39.5 44.5
44.5 49.5
49.5 54.5

Mid Points (X)

22
27
32
37
42
47
52

Frequency (f)
1
4
9
10
15
9
2
f = 50

Question 2:

Marks: 4+4=8

Compute Mean and Mode from the following data.

Classes
0.7312 0.7313
0.7314 0.7315
0.7316 0.7317
0.7318 0.7319
0.7320 0.7321
0.7322 0.7323
0.7324 0.7325

Frequency (f)
10
15
20
25
30
8
2

Solution 2:
Mean:
For Class Boundaries ((0.7312-0.00005) (0.7313+0.00005)) = 0.73115 0.73135 and so on.
For finding Mid Points (0.73115 + 0.73135) / 2 = 0.73125 and so on.
Classes
0.7312 0.7313
0.7314 0.7315
0.7316 0.7317
0.7318 0.7319
0.7320 0.7321
0.7322 0.7323
0.7324 0.7325

Class Boundaries
0.73115 0.73135
0.73135 0.73155
0.73155 0.73175
0.73175 0.73195
0.73195 0.73215
0.73215 0.73235
0.73235 0.73255

Mid Points (X)

0.73125
0.73145
0.73165
0.73185
0.73205
0.73225
0.73245

For finding mean we use the following formula

X =

( fX )
f

X =

80.49790
110

X = 0.73180

Frequency(f)
10
15
20
25
30
8
2
f = 110

(fX)
7.31250
10.97175
14.63300
18.29625
21.96150
5.85800
1.46490
fX = 80.49790

Mode:
Calculating Class Boundaries ((0.7312-0.00005) (0.7313+0.00005)) = 0.73115 0.73135 and so on.
Classes
0.7312 0.7313
0.7314 0.7315
0.7316 0.7317
0.7318 0.7319
0.7320 0.7321
0.7322 0.7323
0.7324 0.7325

Class Boundaries
0.73115 0.73135
0.73135 0.73155
0.73155 0.73175
0.73175 0.73195
0.73195 0.73215
0.73215 0.73235
0.73235 0.73255

Frequency
10
15
20
25
30
8
2

For finding Mode of grouped data we use following formula

X= l

( fm f 1)
*h
( fm f 1) ( fm f 2)

First we need to determine its modal class (fm). Modal Class has the highest frequency, which is 30 in our case.
f1 is the frequency of the preceding class of modal class, which is 25 in our case.
f2 is the frequency of the succeeding class of modal class, which is 8 in our case.
l is the lower limit of modal class, which is 0.73195 in our case.
h is the size of class interval, which is (0.73135-0.73115 = 0.0002)in our case.
(30 25)
*0.0002
(30 25) (30 8)
(5)
*0.0002
X = 0.73195
(5) (22)
X = 0.73195 + (0.18519 * 0.0002)
X = 0.73195

X = 0.73195 + 0.00004
X = 0.73199