STATISTICS - SEMINAR 3

GROUPING STATISTICAL DATA

1. A real estate agency, located in the central area of a town, intends to open a new office in a
peripheral area. In order to study the geographical distribution of the apartments sold by the agency,
a researcher randomly selects 30 apartments sold last month. Each apartment is located in one of the
following areas: North-West (NW), North-East (NE), South-West (SW) and South-East (SE). The
data are presented in the following table:
Apartment
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Location area
NW
SE
SE
NW
SW
NW
NE
SW
NW
SE
NW
SE
SW
NW
SW

Apartment
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

Location area
NE
NE
NW
NW
SW
NE
NW
SW
SE
SW
NW
NW
SE
NE
SW

a. Identify the population, the sample, the statistical unit and the variable. Describe the variable and
identify its measurement scale.
b. Group the available data and graph the results.
c. Determine the percentage of apartments located in each area and plot the results.
2. The number of orders received by 25 companies last week is presented in the following table:
Company
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13

Number of orders

Company

Number of orders

3
4
14
5
2
15
1
3
16
4
0
17
4
2
18
4
0
19
2
5
20
5
4
21
3
2
22
6
3
23
4
3
24
5
1
25
1
a. Identify the population, the sample, the statistical unit and the variable. Describe the variable and
identify its measurement scale.
b. Group the available data and graph the results.
c. Determine the relative frequencies and the cumulative frequencies and construct the relative
frequency distribution and the cumulative frequency distributions. Interpret the values corresponding
to the 4th class.

3. The annual turnover (thousand Euros) for 50 companies has the following values:
Company
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Annual turnover (thousand Eur)

62
82
89
97
114
63
83
119
64
84
90
99
123
65
84
91
101
132
69
85
91
102
133
72
86

Company
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50

Annual turnover (thousand Eur)

92
104
134
74
86
93
105
145
76
87
94
107
146
77
88
95
110
164
79
89
96
113
174
98
102

a. Group the available data into equal class-intervals; graph the results.
b. Determine and plot the relative frequencies. Interpret the value for the second class.
c. Determine and plot the cumulative frequencies (ascending and descending). Interpret the values for
the 5th class.
d. Compute mid-points for the determined class-intervals.
Observation: use Excel tools for grouping the data.
4. The length of time it takes to assemble a particular electronic component varies from an employee to
another. Management has collected the time (in minutes) it took 20 different employees to assemble
the component. The information is summarized in the following frequency distributions generated by
Excel:
Bin
Frequency
%
Cumulative %
10
1

5
15
9

50
20
1

55
25
7

More

100
a. Find the missing values.
b. Which of the following statements is true:
1. It took 50% of all workers exactly 15 minutes to assemble the component.
2. It took 100% of all workers longer than 25 minutes to assemble the component.
3. 11 workers assembled the component in 20 minutes or less.
4. It took 7 workers 25 minutes or longer to assemble the component.