MT-2005 PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS DATA ORGANIZATION
PRACTICE QUESTIONS FOR DATA ORGANIZATION
EXERCISE 1.2
1. How People Get Their News The Brunswick Research Organization surveyed 50 randomly
selected individuals and asked them the primary way they received the daily news. Their choices
were via newspaper (N), television (T), radio (R), or Internet (I).
(a) Construct a categorical frequency distribution for the data and interpret the results.
(b) Construct a relative categorical frequency distribution for the data and interpret the results.
2. Trust in Internet Information A survey was taken on how much trust people place in the
information they read on the Internet. A trust in everything they read, M trust in most of what they
read, H trust in about one-half of what they read, S trust in a small portion of what they read.
(Based on information from the UCLA Internet Report.)
(a) Construct a categorical frequency distribution for the data and interpret the results.
(b) Construct a relative categorical frequency distribution for the data and interpret the results.
3. Presidential Vetoes The number of total vetoes exercised by the past 20 Presidents is listed
below. Use the data to construct a grouped frequency distribution and a cumulative frequency
distribution with 5 classes.
4. Grams per Food Serving The data shown are the number of grams per serving of 30 selected
brands of cakes. Construct a frequency distribution using 5 classes.
5. Weights of the NBA’s Top 50 Players Listed are the weights of the NBA’s top 50 players.
Construct a grouped frequency distribution and a cumulative frequency distribution.
PREPARED BY HAZBER SAMSON SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES DPT FAST ISLAMABAD
