SECTION B
QUESTION 5 - 16 MARKS
Trudy Green works for the True-Green Lawn Company. Her job is to solicit lawn-care business
via the telephone. Listed below are the numbers of appointments she made in each of the last
25 hours of calling. 5, 4,2,7,6,8,5,4,6,4,4,5,4,5,7,4,2,8,3,3,6,3,3 Calculate the following
(a) Range
[2 mks]
(b) Mode
[2 mks]
(c) Median
[2 mks]
(d) Arithmetic mean
[2 mks]
(e) Variance
[3 mks]
(f) Standard Deviation
[2 mks]
(g) coefficient of variation.
[2 mks]
QUESTION 6 - 17 MARKS
(a) Indicate whether each of the following variables is quantitative or qualitative.
measurement scale. (example of data is shown in the bracket)
State its
[5 mks]
Variable
Qualitative/Quantitative
a Height (short, tall medium)
b Weight (37kg, 74Kg, 300g)
C Names (Jane, Grace, Ben)
d No. of cars passing a junction (23, 5, 86)
e Temperature (13°C, 49°C, 0.74°C)
Measurement scale
(b) Represent the following data sets in a frequency table
(i) Dataset 1: Blood groups;
[4 mks]
A;B;O;A;AB;O;O;A;O;B;A;A;A;O;O;
O;B;O;AB;B,O,B,O,A,A
(ii) Dataset 2: Height of male soldier
[8mks]
60; 60.5; 61; 61; 61.5; 63.5; 63.5; 63.5; 64; 64; 64; 64; 64; 64; 64; 64.5;
64.5; 64.5; 64.5; 64.5; 64.5; 64.5; 64.5; 66; 66; 66; 66; 66; 66; 66; 66; 66;
66; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 66.5; 67; 67; 67;
67; 67; 67; 67; 67; 67; 67; 67; 67; 67.5; 67.5; 67.5; 67.5; 67.5; 67.5; 67.5;
68; 68; 69; 69; 69; 69; 69; 69; 69; 69; 69; 69; 69.5; 69.5; 69.5; 69.5; 69.5;
70; 70; 70; 70; 70; 70; 70.5; 70.5; 70.5; 71; 71; 71; 72; 72; 72; 72.5; 72.5;
73; 73.5; 74
QUESTION 7 - 23 MARKS
The city council of Windhoek is considering increasing the number of police in an effort to
reduce crime. Before making a final decision, the council asks the Chief of Police to survey
other cities of similar size to determine the relationship between the number of police and the
number of crimes reported. The Chief gathered the following sample information.
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