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This worksheet provides students with practice problems involving measures of variation and position including range, standard deviation, variance, percentiles, and quartiles. Students are asked to calculate these measures for given sample data sets of numbers and weights and solve word problems involving test scores and their corresponding percentiles. The worksheet is for a class in engineering and architecture at Sorsogon State University.

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Worksheet - 7 (Measures of Variation) .Docx

This worksheet provides students with practice problems involving measures of variation and position including range, standard deviation, variance, percentiles, and quartiles. Students are asked to calculate these measures for given sample data sets of numbers and weights and solve word problems involving test scores and their corresponding percentiles. The worksheet is for a class in engineering and architecture at Sorsogon State University.

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Republic of the Philippines

SORSOGON STATE UNIVERSITY


Baribag Campus
ENGINEERING- AND ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT

Worksheet #7
Measures of Variation and Position

Name: __________________________________________ Course/Year: _________ Score: _____


Term: 1st Semester, 2021-2022 Instructor: Engr. Noel G. Benavides, Ph.D.

1. Find the range, the standard deviation, and the variance for the given samples. Round non integer results
to the nearest tenth.

N Samples Range Standard Variance


o deviation
.
4.5276925690687
1 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 12, 15, 16
5.6038677119766
2 5.2, 11.7, 19.1, 3.7, 8.2, 16.3
16.081404486174
3 93, 67, 49, 55, 92, 87, 77, 66, 73, 96, 54
0.9970370305242
4 8, 6, 8, 6, 8, 6, 8, 6, 8, 6, 8, 6, 8 9
9.0508766065469
5 -23, -17, -19, -5, -4, -11, -31

2. Compute the variance and standard deviation using the distribution below.

X f
1-3 2
4-6 8
7-9 3
10-12 6
13-15 3
16-18 2
19-21 4

3. Solve the following percentile problems.

a. On a reading test, Shaylen’s score of 455 was higher than the scores of 4256 and 7210 students who took
the test. Find the percentile, rounded to the nearest percent, for Shaylen’s score.

b. On a placement examination, Rick scored lower than 1210 of the 12,860 students who took the exam. Find
the percentile, rounded to the nearest percent, for Rick’s score.

c. Kevin scored at the 65th percentile on a test given to 9840 students. How many students scored lower than
Kevin?

d. Rene scored at the 84 th percentile on a test given to 12,600 students. How many students scored higher
than Rene?

4. The following table lists the weights, in ounces, of 15 avocados in a random sample. Find the quartiles for
the data.
Weights, in ounces, of Avocado
12 10 14 7. 10 11 12 12 13 15
1
.4 .8 .2 5 .2 .4 .6 .8 .1 .6
9. 11 12 16 14
8 .4 .2 .4 .5

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