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So there's a couple different styles of questions here.
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And the first one, we want to find the mean age of this frequency distribution.
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So the first thing we have to do is we're going to have to find the midpoint of each of these classes.
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And sometimes that's referenced as being the class mark.
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Because we don't know what age the two people in the first class were.
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We don't know if there was a six -year -old and a seven -year -old.
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Was there a six -year -old and a ten -year -old? so by finding a class mark or a midpoint, we have a representative age of that class.
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And to calculate midpoint, we add the lower class limit to the upper class limit, and then we divide by the fact that there were two pieces of data.
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So if we add six plus ten, we get 16.
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When we average the six and the ten together, so we divide 16 by two.
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We are going to get a midpoint or a class mark of eight.
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So we're going to make an assumption that there were two eight -year -olds recorded in this data.
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We'll find the midpoint for 11 through 15, and that will be a midpoint of 13.
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The midpoint from 16 to 20 would be 18, and the midpoint from 21 to 25 is going to be 23.
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We're going to call that our x value and our frequency, we're going to use the variable f.
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So in order to find the mean, we have to sum up x times f and divide by n.
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So now we're going to add an additional column, and we're going to title it x times f.
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So we'll take each x value times its corresponding frequency.
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So 13 times 4 would be 52, 18 times 7 would be 126, and 23 times 1 would be 23.
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So our formula calls for us to add up that column.
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So if i add up that column, i will get 217.
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And i have to divide by how many total pieces of data there were.
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And if i look at my frequency column, i know that there were two, let's say, eight -year -olds, and four 13 -year -olds, an additional 7, 18 -year -olds, and one 23 -year -old.
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So we have a total of 14 pieces of data.
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So when i divide by 14, my mean of this frequency distribution would be 15.
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15 .5 years old.
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In number two, we are looking at a set of data that involves average january temperatures.
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They are measured in, looks like, celsius degrees.
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And we want to find the interquartile range.
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And in order to calculate the iqr, or interquartile range, we have to find quartile 3 and subtract quartile 1.
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So notice that the data is arranged in order from smallest to largest.
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And in order to find quartile 3 and quartile 1, we're first going to have to find the middle of the data.
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So since there are 11 pieces of data, our middle or our median is 4 .1.
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And what this does is it separates our data so that there are five pieces of data below that median value, and there are five pieces of data above.
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And then to find q1, we only look at the first half of the data, and we find the middle or the median of that first half.
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So the median of the first half would be 0 .2 because there are two pieces of data below it and two above it in the first half of the data.
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We'll do the same thing in the upper high...