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The following data represent the legal costs (thousands of dollars) for 31
municipalities for a specific year.
Calculate the mean, median, mode, range, variance, and standard deviation.
Descriptive statistics
Legal
Costs
count 31
mean 73.55
sample variance 8,506.52
sample standard
deviation 92.23
minimum 2
maximum 455
range 453
Mean = 73.55
Median = 40.00
Mode = 40.00
Range = 453
Variance = 8,506.52
1 1
Mean x
N
fx 40 1, 035 25.8750
Variance s 2
1 1
fx 2 N x 2 28,575 40 25.875 46.0096
2
N 1 40 1
Standard deviation Variance 46.0096 6.7830
3. The mean time taken by all participants to run a road race was found to be 220
minutes with a standard deviation of 20 minutes. Using Chebyshev's theorem, find
the percentage of runners who ran this road race in
4. The mean life of a certain brand of auto batteries is 44 months with a standard
deviation of 3 months. Assume that the lives of all auto batteries of this brand have a
bell-shaped distribution. Using the empirical rule, find the percentage of auto
batteries of this brand that have a life of
a. 41 to 47 months
Here 44 and 3
P 41 X 47 P 41 44 X 44 47 44
P 3 X 44 3
P X 44 3
P X 44 1 3
0.68 By Emperical rule, P X 1 0.68
b. 38 to 50 months
Here 44 and 3
P 38 X 50 P 38 44 X 44 50 44
P 6 X 44 6
P X 44 6
P X 44 2 3
0.95 By Emperical rule, P X 2 0.95
c. 35 to 53 months
Here 44 and 3
P 35 X 53 P 35 44 X 44 53 44
P 9 X 44 9
P X 44 9
P X 44 3 3
0.99 By Emperical rule, P X 3 0.99
84 92 63 75 81 97 73 69 46 58 94 84 78
43 77 82 69 98 84
43 46 58 63 69 69 73 75 77 78
81 82 84 84 84 92 94 97 98
a. Calculate the values of the three quartiles and the inter-quartile range. Where does
the value of 81 lie in relation to these quartiles?
b. Find the (approximate) value of the 93rd percentile. Give a brief interpretation of
this value.
Rank 100
Percentile for any value in the ordered series p
n 1
p
Rank R n 1
100
93
When p 93 Rank 20 18.6 19
100
Scores with ranks 19 is the required approimate value of 93rd percentile.
Then the value at 93rd percentile of the data 98
c. Calculate the percentile rank of 82. Give a brief interpretation of this value.
Rank 100
Percentile for any value in the ordered series p
n 1
12 100
20
60
i.e. there are 60% of values in the given data set are below 82.
6. The following data give the ages of 15 employees of a company.
36 47 23 55 42 31 27 19 38 65 52 47 39
25 44
Prepare a box-and-whisker plot. Is this data set skewed in any direction? If yes, is it
skewed to the right or to the left? Does this data set contain any outliers?
The boxplot to the given data is,
Boxplot indicates that the distribution appeared to be slightly skewed to its left. Also data
set doesn’t contain any outliers.