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Application

Activity 1
Below is a summary of color preference of 400 randomly selected car buyers
in Cebu:
BLACK RED BLUE GRAY WHITE
320 180 195 155 250
A. Construct a percentage of relative distribution.
B. Construct a pie chart to describe the data.
C. Construct a bar chart to describe the data.

Activity 2
Three hundred eighty students are grouped into four categories: W, X, Y, and
Z. the number of female and male students who fall in each category is shown
in the table:
Category Female Male Total
W 24 20 44
X 36 45 81
Y 74 60 134
Z 66 55 121
Total 200 180 380
1. Construct a pie chart and a bar graph to describe the data on female students.
2. Construct a pie chart band a bar chart to describe the data on male students.

Activity 3
The Table below shows the number of items bought daily at the MAI Computer
Shop. Construct both the pie chart and the bar chart to describe the data.
Items Number of pieces
LED monitor 5
Desktop computer 7
Laptop computer 6
Printer 4
Fax machine 3
Total 25

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Assessment

Directions: Construct the graph or table that is required by each item.

1. The table below shows the monthly sales of Adora Generics, Inc.
Month Number of Machines
January 60
February 65
March 58
April 44
May 58
June 63
July 61
August 42
September 37
November 46
December 88

Construct a pie chart to describe the data.

2. The table below shows the length of time a piano player practices
seven days before a concert.
Day Number of minutes
1 90
2 88
3 66
4 94
5 56

Construct a bar graph to describe the data.

3. Consider the following data:

31 60 75 55 50 40 66 38
39 27 67 61 72 56 59 42
70 24 41 41 25 27 50 48

Present the data by construct a graph or table.

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6, 6, 6, 9, 9, 9, 9, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 21, 21, 35, 35

Answer
𝑥̂ = 12 and 15

Application

Activity 1
Directions: Supply the information reqiured by each item.
1. The enrolment in a school in last five years was 605, 710, 745, 835 and
910. What was the average enrolment per year?

2. A random sample of six cashiers in a department store shows the

following balances at the end of the day: ₱ 16,640.39; ₱ 26,915.59; ₱ 6,
827.08; ₱ 101,791.17, ₱ 61,811.75, and ₱ 20,244.12. Compute the mean
balance.

3. A group of students obtained the following scores in a math quiz: 8, 7,

9, 10, 8, 6, 5, 4, 3. Arranging these scores in increasing order, find the
median.

4. If the score 5 of another student is included in the list: 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8,

8, 9, 10. What is the middle score?

5. Find the mode in the given sets of scores. (10, 12, 10, 9, 13, 11, 10)

Assessment

Directions: Read and answer the following questions carefully. Write the letter
that corresponds to your answer on the space provided.

_____ 1. Four friends went shopping for school clothes. Kim bought 5 shirts,
Jill bought 4 shirts, Leslie bought 6 shirts, and Crystal bought only 1
shirt. Which of the following choices represents the mean of the shirts
purchased?
A. 2 C. 4
B. 3 D. 6

_____ 2. What is the median of the following numbers? {1, 2, 2, 8, 9, 14}

A. 2 C. 13
B. 5 D. 6
_____ 3. Which set of data has a mean of 15, a median of 14, and a mode of 14?
A. 3, 14, 19, 25, 14 C. 25, 15, 14, 3, 7
B. 14, 22, 15, 15, 9 D. 14, 22, 14, 15, 4

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_____ 4. The following are scores in a Math test. 80, 90, 90, 85, 60, 70, 75, 85,
90, 60 and 80. What is the mode of these scores?
A. 80 C. 90
B. 70 D. 60
_____ 5. Which number is NOT the mean, median or mode of the data set 4, 3,
15, 11, 3, 8, 7, 5?
A. 5 C. 7
B. 3 D. 6
_____ 6. The mode score on the Grade 8 Math test was 94. Which of the given
interpretations must be correct?
A. More students got 94 than any other score.
B. A score of 91 was slightly below average.
C. 99 is the highest score in the class.
D. No one scored below 50.

_____ 7. The quiz papers of 7 students were arranged according to their score.
What will be the score of the student in the middle if the scores are 7,
6, 4, 8, 2, 5, and 11?
A. 6 C. 11
B. 12 D. 4

_____ 8. Which number occurs most frequently in the following set of numbers?
12, 17, 16, 14, 13, 16, 11, 14
A. 13 C. 14
B. 11 D. 14 and 16

_____ 9. If the mean of 6 numbers is 41, what is the sum of the numbers?
A. 250 C. 134
B. 246 D. 456

_____ 10. The mean score of 5 students is 23, what is the total score of the 5
students?
A. 125 C. 115
B. 120 D. 110

_____ 11. Which of the following data set has a mean of 15, a median of 14,
and a mode of 11?
A. 11, 11, 13, 15, 20 C. 11, 11, 14, 19, 20
B. 5, 11, 14, 14, 31 D. 6, 10, 14, 15, 15

_____ 12. Cory received the following grades this year: 75, 87, 90, 88, and 79.
If she wishes to earn an 85 average, what must be her score on her
final test?
A. 91 C. 85
B. 87 D. 88

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_____ 13. What is the mode of these values? 15, 21, 26, 25, 21, 23, 28, 21
A. 23 C. 25
B. 21 D. No mode

_____ 14. Find the mode of 4, 8, 15, 21, and 23.

A. 8 C. 21
B. 15 D. No mode
_____ 15. Cassandra sold the following number of candles over the last 6 days:
25, 48, 25, 33, 57, 50. What was the mean number of candles sold
each day?
A. 39.67 C. 43.36
B. 36.87 D. 45.33

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Step 3. Then work out the mean of those squared differences.

𝑆𝑢𝑚 = 6.25 + 20.25 + 2.25 + 6.25 + 30.25 + 0.25 = 𝟔𝟓. 𝟓

65.5 65.5
= 𝑜𝑟 13.1
6−1 5
This value is called the sample variance.

Step 5. Take the square root of that.

𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐷𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 = √13.1 = 3.62

Application

Directions: Find the range, variance, and standard deviation of the following
quantitative frequency distributions.

The following data represent the difference in scores between the winning and
losing teams in a sample of 15 college football bowl games from 20018-2019.

12 15 16 11 13
24 15 15 12 15
12 9 12 9 16
25 8 11 8 17
12 10 10 9 18

Assessment

Directions: Read and answer the following questions carefully. Write the letter
that corresponds to your answer on the space provided. After answering the
problems, check whether your answers are correct on the given key to
corrections.
______1. Ten friends scored the following marks in their end-of-year math
exam: 23%, 37%, 45%, 49%, 56%, 63%, 63%, 70%, 72% and 82%.
What was the standard deviation of their marks?
A. 15.1% C. 15.5%
B. 16.9% D. 18.6%

______2. What is the standard deviation of the first 10 natural numbers (1 to

10)?
A. 2.45 C. 3.16
B. 2.87 D. 8.25

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______3. Nine friends each guessed the number of marbles in a jar. When the
answer was revealed they found they had guessed well (and one was
the winner!) Here is how close they each got: -9, -7, -4, -1, 0, 2, 7, 9,
12. What is the range?
A. 3.0 C. 6.2
B. 5.5 D. 6.8

______4. What is the variance for the numbers: 75, 83, 96, 100, 121 and 125?
A. 216.9 C. 332.66
B. 127.1 D. 18.2

______5. What is the standard deviation for the numbers: 4,5,5,4,4,2,2,6

A. 1.32 C. 16.2
B. 5.45 D. 2.8

_____ 6. Given the following set of data, what is the variance? {2, 6, 8, 3, 7, 9,
1, 4}
A. 40 C. 2.47
B. 5 D. 7.5

______7. An instructor gave students a 20-item quiz on a course topic. The

distribution of scores on the quiz was: 8, 8, 10, 10, 11, 12, 12, 13, 13,
13, 15, 15, 16, 17, 19, 19, 20, 20, 20. What is the range for these
scores?
A. 20 C. 16
B. 12 D. 18

______8. Data were collected on the number of minutes spent cooking a

meal. The data are as follows: 8, 10, 15, 25, 30, 40, 12, 20, and
19. What is the range of this data?
A. 24 C. 32
B. 22 D. 48

_____ 9. The mean of a distribution is 14 and the standard deviation is 5. What

is the value of the coefficient of variation?
A. 60.4% C. 35.7%
B. 48.3% D. 27.8%

_____ 10. Price of gasoline for three days are as 98, 96, 97, 100 then value of
standard deviation with assumed mean method is
A. 15 C. 1
B. 10 D. 11

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