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Thirty pairs of values of two variables X and Y are given below. Form a bivariate frequency table. Also find marginal frequency distributions of X and Y.

X

110

88

91

115

97

85

85

91

120

95

Y

500

800

870

599

625

650

905

700

850

824

X

82

105

99

90

108

124

90

90

111

89

Y

970

609

990

735

600

735

729

840

999

780

X

112

100

87

92

91

82

96

120

121

122

Y

638

850

630

720

695

923

555

810

805

526

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Prepare a bivariate frequency distribution for the following data, taking class intervals for X as 35 – 45, 45 – 55, …. etc and for Y as 115 – 130, 130 – 145, … etc where, X denotes the age in years and Y denotes blood pressure for a group of 24 persons.
(55, 151) (36, 140) (72, 160) (38, 124) (65, 148) (46, 130) (58, 152) (50, 149) (38, 115) (42, 145) (41, 163) (47, 161) (69, 159) (60, 161) (58, 131) (57, 136) (43, 141) (52, 164) (59, 161) (44, 128) (35, 118) (62, 142) (67, 157) (70, 162)
Also find
(i) Marginal frequency distribution of X.
(ii) Conditional frequency distribution of Y when X < 45.
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Following data gives the age in years and marks obtained by 30 students in an intelligence test.

Age

16

17

22

19

21

16

Marks

16

19

39

50

48

41

Age

21

20

20

23

22

19

Marks

59

44

42

62

37

67

Age

23

20

22

22

23

22

Marks

45

57

35

37

38

56

Age

17

18

16

21

19

20

Marks

54

61

47

67

49

56

Age

17

18

23

21

20

16

Marks

51

42

65

56

52

48

Prepare a bivariate frequency distribution by taking class intervals 16 – 18, 18 – 20,…,etc. for age and 10 – 20, 20 – 30,…, etc. for marks.
Find
(i) marginal frequency distributions.
(ii) conditional frequency distribution of marks obtained when age of students is between 20 – 22.

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Following data gives the coded price (X) and demand (Y) of a commodity.

Price

5

7

9

8

10

7

9

8

5

11

11

10

2

3

9

Demand

9

15

13

15

14

10

11

14

10

14

6

14

15

11

12

Price

2

4

3

14

6

10

7

15

8

6

5

6

11

14

15

Demand

6

11

8

11

10

15

9

15

13

9

14

10

7

5

6

Classify the data by taking classes 0 – 4, 5 – 9, etc. for X and 5 – 8, 9 – 12, etc. for Y.
Also find
(i) marginal frequency distribution of X and Y.
(ii) conditional frequency distribution of Y when X is less than 10.

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Two dice are thrown simultaneously 25 times. The following pairs of observations are obtained.
(2, 3) (2, 5) (5, 5) (4, 5) (6, 4) (3, 2) (5, 2) (4, 1) (2, 5) (6, 1) (3, 1) (3, 3) (4, 3) (4, 5) (2, 5) (3, 4) (2, 5) (3, 4) (2, 5) (4, 3) (5, 2) (4, 5) (4, 3) (2, 3) (4, 1)
Prepare a bivariate frequency distribution table for the above data. Also, obtain the marginal distributions.
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Following data gives the age of husbands (X) and age of wives (Y) in years. Construct a bivariate frequency distribution table and find the marginal distributions.
X2725282629272826252527
Y2120202123222020191923
X262925272625282527
Y192323222120222322
Find conditional frequency distribution of age of husbands when the age of wife is 23 years.
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Following data gives Sales (in Lakh ?) and Advertisement Expenditure (in Thousand ₹) of 20 firms.
(115, 61) (120, 60) (128, 61) (121, 63) (137, 62) (139, 62) (143, 63) (117, 65) (126, 64) (141, 65) (140, 65) (153, 64) (129, 67) (130, 66) (150, 67) (148, 66) (130, 69) (138, 68) (155, 69) (172, 68)
(i) Construct a bivariate frequency distribution table for the above data by taking classes 115 – 125, 125 – 135, ….etc. for sales and 60 – 62, 62 – 64, …etc. for advertisement expenditure.
(ii) Find marginal frequency distributions
(iii) Conditional frequency distribution of Sales when the advertisement expenditure is between 64 – 66 (Thousand ₹)
(iv) Conditional frequency distribution of advertisement expenditure when the sales are between 125 – 135 (lakh ₹)
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Following data gives height in cms (X) and weight in kgs (Y) of 20 boys. Prepare a bivariate frequency table taking class intervals 150 – 154, 155 – 159,…etc. for X and 35 – 39, 40 – 44,…, etc for Y. Also, find
(i) Marginal frequency distributions.
(ii) Conditional frequency distribution of Y when 155 ≤ X ≤ 159.
(152,40) (160,54) (163,52) (150,35) (154,36) (160,49) (166,54) (157,38)
(159,43) (153,48) (152,41) (158,51) (155,44) (156,47) (156,43) (166,53)
(160,50) (151,39) (153,50) (158,46)
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Out of a sample of 120 persons in a village, 80 were administered a new drug for preventing influenza, and out of the 18 were attacked by influenza. Out of those who are not administered the new drug, 10 persons were not attacked by influenza:
(i) Prepare a two-way table showing frequencies.
(ii) Compute the $x^2$ square statistic.
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