
The following table gives the distribution of the life time of 400 neon lamps :
Lifetime (in hours)
Number of lamps
Find the median lifetime of a lamp.

Important Questions on Statistics
surnames were randomly picked up from a local telephone directory and the frequency distribution of the number of letters in the English alphabets in the surnames was obtained as follows:
Number of letters | ||||||
Number of surnames |
Determine the median number of letters in the surnames. Find the mean number of letters in the surnames? Also, find the modal size of the surnames.

Weight (in kg) |
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Number of students |

Daily income | |||||
Number of workers |
Convert the above distribution to a less than type cumulative frequency distribution, and draw its ogive.

During the medical check-up of students of a class, their weights were recorded as follows:
Weight (in ) | Number of students |
Less than | |
Less than | |
Less than | |
Less than | |
Less than | |
Less than | |
Less than | |
Less than |
Draw a less than type ogive for the given data. Hence, obtain the median weight from the graph verify the result by using the formula.

The following table gives production yield per hectare of wheat of farms of a village.
Production yield (in ) | ||||||
Number of farms |
Change the distribution to a more than type distribution and draw ogive.
