Nor Ashikin bt Mohamed Yahaya (1413606)

Question 1

Figure 1 shows the frequency distribution of brands of mobile phones used

by students. Consider data obtained from a simple random sample of 40
students regardless genders.

Samsun Sony Apple Lenovo Nokia Other Total

g brands
Number 13 7 5 3 4 8 40
(Frequen
cy)

Figure 1: The frequency distribution of brands of mobile phones used by

students

a) Construct a cumulative frequency distribution.

frequency
Relative Frequency of a class (f) =
total

Other
Samsung Sony Apple Lenovo Nokia
brands
Relative
frequenc 0.325 0.175 0.125 0.075 0.100 0.200
y (f)
Cumulati
ve
0.325 0.500 0.625 0.700 0.800 1.00
frequenc
y
 b) Construct a histogram for each sample. Describe the shape of each
distribution.

0.35
0.3
0.25
0.2
0.15
Relative frequency (f)
0.1
0.05
0

Brands of mobile phones

Based on the histogram above, it shows that approximately 33% of the

students use Samsung brand of mobile phones. This proves that Samsung
brand is one of the best seller mobile phones compared to others. Besides,
some of the students, which are 20% of them also, prefer to use other
brands of mobile phone than the top five brands listed which are Samsung,
Sony, Apple, Lenovo and Nokia. Furthermore, it can be seen clearly from the
graph that approximately only 8% of the students prefer to use Lenovo
instead of others.
 c) Draw a cumulative frequency polygon for each sample. Estimate the
median.

1.2

0.8

0.6
Cumulative frequency 0.4

0.2

Brands of mobile phones

1
Estimate median= = 0.5 (Sony)
2

Question 2

1(Samsu 4 6 (Other
x 2 (Sony) 3 (Apple) 5 (Nokia)
ng) (Lenovo) brands)
Frequenc
13 7 5 3 4 8
y

a) Calculate:
i. Mean
Mean fx
= n
13 ( 1 ) +7 ( 2 ) +5 ( 3 ) +3(4)+4 (5 )+ 8(6)
=
40
= 3.05

ii. Mode
Samsung.

iii. Median

1(Samsu 4 6 (Other
x 2 (Sony) 3 (Apple) 5 (Nokia)
ng) (Lenovo) brands)
Frequenc
13 7 5 3 4 8
y
Cumulati
ve
13 20 25 28 32 40
frequenc
y

n
CF
Median= 2
L+ (i)
f
40
13
=2+ 2
(1)
7
= 3.00 (Apple)
 iv. Standard deviation

xf


2
s=
2
x f
n

=

= 1.96
40 ( 522 ) (122)2
40(401)

b) Determine the value of Pearsons Coefficient of Skewness (PCS).

Comment on the skewness of the data.

2
x Q
=
3

3 (3.05 3.00)
=
1.96
= 0.077
The distribution is positively skewed.