Mathematics For Architecture
Statistics
1. What is meant by measure of central tendency? Which measure of central tendency is generally considered
as best? why? Discuss strong and weak points of various measures of central tendency. Describe
characteristics of ideal measure of central tendency. What is relationship between mean, median and mode?
2. What are the measures of dispersion? Write objectives of study of dispersion. Mention the properties of
good measures of dispersion. Define absolute and relative measures of dispersion.
3. Write merits and demerits of mean, median and mode.
4. You have collected the heights of building in a specific neighborhood:
Building A B C D E F G H I J
Height (in 50 60 55 70 65 55 80 75 85 90
meters)
Calculate mean, median and quartiles, mean deviation and standard deviation from the data.
5. From the following data, determine the average marks.
Marks 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
No. of Students 20 15 12 10 4 8 6
Find mean, median, mean deviation, standard deviation, coefficient of variation from the data.
6. The following table gives the yearly income (000Rs) of randomly selected 10 construction workers
working in a construction company. 1000, 2000, 5000, 4000, 4000, 7000, 5400, 8000, 3000, 3500, Find a)
mean b) median c) mode d) standard deviation and f) coefficient of variation.
7. Find the mean, median and mode of the following data.
x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
f 6 9 4 2 10 8 7 5 1 3
8. Describe the difference between mean, median and mode with suitable examples. The arithmetic mean and
standard deviation of 100 items was 40 and 5. Later on it was found that an item 53 was misread as 83.
Find the correct mean standard deviation.
9. The number of minutes spend by 20 customers in a shopping mall is as follows
100 105 105 110 115 115 120 120 120 130
135 135 136 160 165 165 170 175 235 500
a) Find mean median mode and standard deviation.
b) Calculate five number summary.
c) Suggest which one is the best one to measure central tendency in this case and why?
10. The construction costs (in thousands of dollars) are grouped in following intervals, and number of buildings
in each interval is recorded:
Cost Interval (in 100- 150- 200- 250- 300- 350- 400- 450- 500- 550-
$1000) 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600
Number of 2 5 8 12 20 15 10 8 5 3
Buildings)
Calculate mean, median, mode and standard deviation from above data.
11. Architects might analyze the size of windows for energy efficiency and lighting. Here's a dataset showing
the distribution of window sizes in square meters (m²):
Window
1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10 11-12 13 - 14 15 - 16 17 - 18 19 - 20
Size (m²)
Frequency 6 10 14 12 8 6 5 3 2 1
Calculate a) mean b) median c) mode d) standard deviation e) Coefficient of variation
12. The following table represents the marks of 100 students:
Marks 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100
No. of Students 14 ? 27 ? 15
If mode value is 58, find the missing frequencies and mean of all 100 students.
13. The score of two batsmen A and B in ten innings during a certain match are as follows:
Batsman A 32 28 47 63 71 39 10 60 96 14
Batsman B 19 31 48 53 61 90 10 62 40 80
Find out which of the two batsmen is more consistent in scoring? (C.V.=55.43% & 48.8%, B is more
consistent)
14. Define Correlation analysis, regression analysis. Write properties of correlation coefficient and regression
coefficients. Write importance of correlation and regression in your field of study.
15. Below is the data collected from various building projects:
Building A B C D E F G H I J
Number of floors(X) 5 7 9 10 4 6 8 3 2 1
Construction cost (in millions) 8 12 15 18 7 10 13.5 6 4.5 3
(Y)
i) Calculate the correlation coefficient.
ii) Use the least square method to find the best fit line Y = a + bX and interpret the result.
iii) Predict the total construction cost for a building with 11 floors.
16. Suppose you are studying the effect of temperature on the tensile strength of a material. You have
collected data from several experiments.
Experiment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Temperature (°C) X 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110
Tensile Strength (MPa) Y 300 294 291 284 280 275 272 265 260 252
i) Calculate simple correlation coefficient from the data.
ii) Fit the simple linear regression model for the given data.
17. The following table gives age and blood pressure of 10 subjects. Find out if there is any correlation
between age and BP. Also estimate regression equation of Blood pressure on age.
Age (x) 30 50 40 35 55 60 43 58 65 70
BP(y) 122 150 122 120 140 142 150 130 145 160
18. In a study of building heights in a city, the following data represents the heights (in meters) of a sample of
buildings: 35,40,42,45,50,55,60,65,70,7535,40,42,45,50,55,60,65,70,75 Calculate the Pearson's coefficient
of skewness for the distribution of building heights.
19. Below is the distribution of different room sizes in residential building. Calculate coefficient of skewness
and kurtosis from given data.
Room Size
0-50 50-100 100-150 150-200 200-250 250-300 300-350 350-400 400-450 450-500
(sq ft)
Frequency 5 10 15 20 25 30 20 10 8 7
