Assimilation Learning Task 2:
A. Consider the situation below and solve the following problem.
Mr. Lorenz Benedict is the sales manager of LBL Bookstore. He has 40
sales staff members who visit college professors all over the Philippines. Each
Saturday morning, he requires his sales staff to send him a report. This report
includes, among other things, the number of professors visited during the
previous week. Listed below, ordered from smallest to largest, are the
number of professors visited last week.
38 40 41 45 48 48 50 50 51 51 52 52 53 54 55 55 55 56 56 57
59 59 59 62 62 62 63 64 65 66 66 67 67 69 69 71 77 78 79 79
Determine the following:
1) 3rd Quartile 2) 9th Decile 3) 35th Percentile
B. Refer to the situation below and solve the following problem.
The following is a distribution for the number of employees in 45 companies
belonging to a certain industry. Calculate the 3rd quartile, 85th percentile,
and 4th decile of the number of employees given the number of companies.
Class Interval Frequency (f)
41 – 45 11
35 – 40 6
31 – 35 9
25 – 30 7
21 – 25 8
16 – 20 4