Answered: A large company's human resources…

Holt Mcdougal Larson Pre-algebra: Student Edition 2012

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ISBN:9780547587776

Author:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Publisher:HOLT MCDOUGAL

Chapter11: Data Analysis And Probability

Section11.1: Stem-and-leaf Plots And Histograms

Problem 10E

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A large company's human resources manager undertakes a research that examines the employment records of 500 employees for absenteeism over the previous year. The data is organised into a frequency distribution by the business researcher conducting the study to assist the human resources manager in analysing the data. This graphs show the frequency distribution.

Class interval	Frequency
0 – 1	218
2 – 3	207
4 – 5	56
6 – 7	11
8 – 9	8

List three specific uses of cumulative frequencies in business.
Display a relative frequency histogram and relative frequency polygon for these data.
Find mean, median, mode, variance and standard deviation for grouped data.

Definition Definition Measure of central tendency that is the value that occurs most frequently in a data set. A data set may have more than one mode if multiple categories repeat an equal number of times. For example, in a data set with five item—3, 5, 5, 29, 473—the mode is 5 because it occurs twice and no other value occurs more than once. On a histogram or bar chart, the element with the highest bar represents the mode. Therefore, the mode is sometimes considered the most popular option. The mode is useful for nominal or categorical data (e.g., the most common color car that users purchase), but it is problematic for continuous data because it is more likely not to have any value that is more frequent than the other.

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