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16-20 2 2 18 2 2 36 = 648
21-25 6 8 23 6 8 138 529 3174
26-30 11 19 28 11 19 308 784 8624
31-35 22 41 33 22 41 726 1089 23958
36-40 22 63 38 22 63 836 1444 31768
41-45 24 87 43 24 87 1032 1849 44376
46-50 7 94 48 7 94 336 2304 16128
51-55 4 98 53 4 98 212 2809 11236
56-60 1 99 58 1 99 58 3364 3364
61-65 1 100 63 1 100 63 3969 3969
∑f=100 ∑fx=3745 ∑fx =147245
2
a) Arithmetic mean speed
∑𝑓𝑥 3745
𝑋= = = 37.45 𝑘𝑚/ℎ𝑟
𝑛 100
f = frequency of observations in the particular class
b) Median speed
∑𝑓 100
𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 = = = 50 𝑘𝑚/ℎ𝑟
2 2
35 + 36
𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦 = = 35.5 𝑘𝑚/ℎ𝑟
2
40 + 41
𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑦 = = 40.5 𝑘𝑚/ℎ𝑟
2
𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝 = 40.5 − 35.5 = 5𝑘𝑚/ℎ𝑟
𝑛 100
(2) − 𝑓𝐿 ( 2 ) − 41
𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑑 = 𝐿 + [ ] × 𝐶 = 43 + [ ] × 5 = 45.05 𝑘𝑚/ℎ𝑟
𝑓𝑚 22
fL= cumulative number of observation up to the lower limit of the class in which the median
lies
d) Standard deviation
e) Standard error
FREQUENCY
30
25
20
15
10
0 SPEED CLASS
16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35 36-40 41-45 46-50 51-55 56-60 61-65 (km/hr)
FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION
percentage of total
frequency
26
24
22
20
18
16
14
12
10
2
MEAN SPEED
0
(km/hr)
10 30 50 70
A GRAPH OF CUMULATIVE PERCENTAGE FREQUENCY VS. MEAN SPEED
cumulative percentage
frequency(%)
100
90
80
70
60
98th
50
40
85th
30
20
10
15th
0
26.5 42.5
0 18 36 52.354 mean speed(km/hr)