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Statistics: data & averages

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  1. Know it

    The mean of a list of values?

    Answer

    Sum of the values ÷ number of values. So the total is mean × number of values.

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    How do you find the median of a list?

    Answer

    Sort the values first, then take the middle one, at position n+12\frac{n + 1}{2}. With an even number of values, go halfway between the two middle ones.

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    In a frequency table, 12 students scored 65, the largest group. What is the mode?

    Answer

    65, the value, not 12, its frequency.

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    The mean of a frequency table?

    Answer

    xˉ=∑fx∑f\bar x = \dfrac{\sum fx}{\sum f}. Divide by the total frequency, not by the number of columns.

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    For the class 21–30, what are the boundaries, the width and the class mark?

    Answer

    Boundaries 20.5 and 30.5; width 30.5−20.5=1030.5 - 20.5 = 10 (not 9); class mark 21+302=25.5\frac{21 + 30}{2} = 25.5.

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    The mean of grouped data?

    Answer

    Use the class marks as xx: xˉ=∑fx∑f\bar x = \dfrac{\sum fx}{\sum f}.

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    The assumed mean method?

    Answer

    Pick an assumed mean AA, a class mark near the middle, and let d=x−Ad = x - A. Then xˉ=A+∑fd∑f\bar x = A + \dfrac{\sum fd}{\sum f}.

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    The median of grouped data?

    Answer

    L+(N2−Ffm)×cL + \left(\dfrac{\frac N2 - F}{f_m}\right) \times c, where LL is the lower boundary of the median class, FF the cumulative frequency before it, fmf_m its frequency and cc its width.

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    The mode of grouped data?

    Answer

    L+(Δ1Δ1+Δ2)×cL + \left(\dfrac{\Delta_1}{\Delta_1 + \Delta_2}\right) \times c, where Δ1\Delta_1 and Δ2\Delta_2 are how far the modal class's frequency is above the classes before and after it.

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    The angle of a sector in a pie chart?

    Answer

    frequencytotal×360∘\dfrac{\text{frequency}}{\text{total}} \times 360^\circ. With percentages, 1%=3.6∘1\% = 3.6^\circ. Draw the sectors with a protractor.

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    Bar chart or histogram?

    Answer

    Separate values (scores 1 to 6): a bar chart, with gaps. Classes of continuous data: a histogram, with bars drawn from the class boundaries and no gaps.

  12. Which method?

    WAEC 2016 · Paper 2 · Q12 (a)

    Marks 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    Frequency 1 4 3 5 2 xx 2

    The table shows the distribution of marks of students in a Mathematics test. If the mean of the distribution is 6, calculate the:

    value of xx;

    How do you find xx?

    Answer

    Write ∑f=17+x\sum f = 17 + x and ∑fx=96+8x\sum fx = 96 + 8x, then set 96+8x17+x=6\dfrac{96 + 8x}{17 + x} = 6 and solve.

  13. Which method?

    WAEC 2023 · Paper 2 · Q11 (a)

    The table shows the frequency distribution of the ages of fifty members of a family.

    Ages (years) 1–5 6–10 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30
    Frequency 7 12 4 6 11 10

    Calculate, correct to two decimal places, the:

    mean;

    What do you use as xx for each class?

    Answer

    The class mark, the middle of each class: 3, 8, 13, …. Then xˉ=∑fx∑f\bar x = \dfrac{\sum fx}{\sum f}, or use an assumed mean to keep the numbers small.