1. You are interested in the average monthly income of EWU graduates.

You randomly selected

100 graduates of EWU and recorded their monthly incomes. The average of these 100 numbers
is 43.7 thousand. Answer the following questions in this context.
a. What is the population?
b. What is the sample?
c. What is the parameter?
d. What is the statistic?
2. Classify the following variables (categorical / discrete / continuous) and mention their levels of
measurement (nominal / ordinal / interval / ratio).
a. Number of emails sent by users daily.
b. Home districts of students.
c. Economic status of people (recorded as very poor, poor, middle class, rich, very rich).
d. Weights of patients.
e. Number of hospital visits made by cancer patients.
f. Place of residence.
g. Number of pens bought per month.
h. Amount of money spent monthly in fast food stores.
3. Consider the following set of data: 14, 16, 13, 14, 17, 154
a. Calculate mean.
b. Calculate median.
c. Calculate mode.
d. Calculate MD.
e. Calculate standard deviation.
f. Why median is more appropriate than mean in this situation?
4. You are interested in the number of calls people receive daily. You collected data from 50
people and constructed the following frequency distribution.
Frequency
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0 5
1 10
2 20
3 10
4 5
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a. Calculate the relative frequency column.

b. Calculate the cumulative frequency column.
c. What percent of people receive more than 2 calls daily?
d. Calculate .
e. Calculate standard deviation.

5. You want to calculate statistical probabilities about the number of accidents that occur at a
particular highway bend daily. You collected data for the last 100 days and constructed the
following frequency distribution.
Number of accidents Frequency
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0 14
1 31
2 27
3 17
4 7
5 4
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a. What is the probability that there will be no accidents tomorrow?
b. What is the probability that there will be exactly two accidents tomorrow?
c. What is the probability that there will be less than two accidents tomorrow?
d. Is it possible to calculate mathematical probabilities in this context? Justify your answer.