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The document is a tutorial sheet that outlines statistical computations for two data sets and error measurements from two balances. It includes tasks such as calculating geometric and harmonic means, arithmetic mean, median, mode, mean absolute deviation, sample standard deviation, and quartile deviation. Additionally, it asks for a comparison of the consistency of two measuring balances based on their sample variances.

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Tutorial 2

The document is a tutorial sheet that outlines statistical computations for two data sets and error measurements from two balances. It includes tasks such as calculating geometric and harmonic means, arithmetic mean, median, mode, mean absolute deviation, sample standard deviation, and quartile deviation. Additionally, it asks for a comparison of the consistency of two measuring balances based on their sample variances.

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MT271: TUTORIAL SHEET 2

1. Given the following data set


12 23 17 11 9 12 32 24 17 25 30 19 15 25 22 18

Compute the following statistics;

(a) Geometric mean and harmonic mean.


(b) The arithmetic mean, median and mode.
(c) Mean absolute deviation.
(d) Sample Standard deviation.
(e) Quartile deviation.

2. The diameters of a sample of 100 rods (mm) were recorded as follows;

Class 40 – 44 45 – 49 50 – 54 55 – 59 60 – 64
frequency 15 30 35 15 5

Compute the following statistics;


(a) The mean, median and mode diameter.
(b) The mean absolute deviation.
(c) Sample standard deviation.
(d) Quartile deviation.

3. The absolute errors done by two different measuring balances (grams) for the past
eight days were recorded as follows;

Balance A: 1.3 2.1 0.9 4.2 1.1 2.3 0.7 3.2


Balance B: 0.8 1.8 2.7 4.2 1.9 0.9 4.7 3.7

Based on sample variances only, suggest which of the two measuring balances may be
considered fairly consistent.

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