Suppose you have been appointed the County Executive in charge of finance in your County. You have allocated funding to two projects, Project A and Project B. By coincidence, Project B happens to be located in your Sub- County. Given below are seventy allocations to various activities in both projects (in Kshs Billions).

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  1. Suppose you have been appointed the County Executive in charge of finance in your County. You have allocated funding to two projects, Project A and Project B. By coincidence, Project B happens to be located in your Sub- County. Given below are seventy allocations to various activities in both projects (in Kshs Billions).

 

Funding for Project A

96

21

80

38

20

60

21

50

100

15

81

06

55

40

70

70

10

30

30

35

66

53

50

60

80

35

80

55

50

49

51

60

25

90

90

50

95

50

80

65

60

55

20

30

110

65

50

65

60

80

64

50

66

35

40

60

65

50

51

81

36

90

51

80

50

55

80

30

60

96

Funding for Project B

20

66

59

21

101

108

31

65

34

20

35

80

63

36

95

89

61

48

44

25

50

81

68

59

50

15

21

29

54

50

45

55

80

65

40

29

81

20

104

65

51

60

10

45

60

35

96

55

24

80

60

80

90

50

65

51

66

65

54

70

65

35

99

64

80

36

36

80

44

110

 

 

Required:

  1. a) Classify this information into seven (7) equal classes using the exclusive method with a class interval of 15 and one of the lower-class limits of either of the distributions must be 21.  
  2. b) The County assembly has accused you of biasness in funds allocation and have called for your impeachment. They allege that on average you have allocated an additional Kshs 5 billionmore for Project B. Based on the mean present your case to the County Assembly that this allegation is not accurate.
  3. c) Does your argument in (ii) above change if we apply the median
  4. d) Compute the combined standard deviation of the two projects.
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