TQM1013

STATISTICS
GROUP ASSIGNMENT
TITLE : THE HEIGHT OF STUDENTS IN KPTM KUANTAN
SEM 0114

NAME OF GROUP MEMBERS

STUDENT ID NO.

SECTION
1. NURKHAIRUNNISA BT MOHAMAD KHALID
01
2. IDATUL MUZINI BT ABDUL MUJIB
01
3. MOHD HANIFF B. MOHD NOOR
01
4. MUHAMMAD FAKHRUDDIN B. KHALID
01

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PTM130708293
PTM130707508
PTM130708336
PTM130708051

SUBMISSION DATE: 5TH OF MARCH 2014 (WEDNESDAY)

LECTURER: MADAM MARSUZIANI A. MANAF
TABLE OF CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
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HOW THE DATA IS OBTAINED ?

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION
HISTOGRAM
FREQUENCY POLYGON
OGIVE
MEAN, MEDIAN AND MODE
VARIANCE AND STANDARD DEVIATION
SKEWNESS OF THE DATA
COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION

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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

REFERENCES

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INTRODUCTION
There have been claims that you can tell how tall a person will be just
by looking at their shoe size. On average, a tall person is figured to have
bigger feet than a shorter person. The height of a person is measured from
the top of the head to the bottom of the feet. Depending on a persons
nationality height can vary due to the different environmental and genetic
factors.
The main purpose of this assignment is to determine whether there
has the average height of students in College Poly-tech Mara Kuantan. We
expected the male students to have a greater height because one would
assume that mens height are taller than women and also how it will give
impact on health for both gender. Women ordinarily reach their greatest
height at a younger age than men, because puberty generally occurs earlier
in women than in men.
Adult height between populations often differs significantly. For
example, based on the research we looked up on website shows that the
average height of women from the Czech Republic is greater than that of
men from Malawi. This may be caused by genetic differences, childhood
lifestyle differences such as nutrition, sleep patterns, physical labor, or both.
For this statistics assignment, we decided to perform an observational
study of the height of students in College Poly-tech Mara Kuantan with a
sample of 50 students from all students in College Poly-tech Mara Kuantan.
Our variable for this assignment is the height of these 50 students in
centimeters.

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HOW THE DATA IS OBTAINED?

In order to gather our data for this assignment we used a simple
random sampling method by selecting 50 students from all students in
College of Poly-tech Mara Kuantan. The data is obtained through direct
questionnaires to record the height of 50 students from College of Poly-Tech
Mara Kuantan.

FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION TABLE

The Height of Students

The Number of Students (f)

130 139

140 149

150 159

11

160 169

22

170 179

180 189

Table 1 : Table 1 displays the data that was collected from 50 students for
their height.

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In this sample, there are 1 student whose height is between 130 139
cm, 6 students whose heights fall within the interval 140 149 cm, 11
students whose heights fall within the interval
150 159 cm, 22 students
whose heights fall within the interval 160 169 cm, 8 students whose
heights fall within the interval 170 179 cm, and 2 students whose height
falls within the interval 180 189 cm.

The Height of
Students

The Number
of Students
(f)

Midpoint (x)

Class
Boundary

Cumulative
Frequency

130 139

134.5

129.5 139.5

140 149

144.5

139.5 149.5

150 159

11

154.5

149.5 159.5

18

160 169

22

164.5

159.5 169.5

40

170 179

174.5

169.5 179.5

48

180 189

184.5

179.5 189.5

50

Table 2 : A table showing the midpoint, class boundaries and cumulative

frequencies of the height of 50 students.

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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

At the beginning of our project we wanted to determine whether there
has the average height of students in College of Poly-tech Mara Kuantan. To
do this, we have obtained the median location n/2 = 50/2 = 25. It was lies
within the interval 160 cm 169 cm. This means that the class interval 160
169 is the median class. As the result, we have obtained 162.68 cm was the
average height of students in College of Poly-tech Mara Kuantan.
At the beginning, we have concluded that a persons height may be
affected by environmental and genetics factor. Since we are growing taller,
both our muscles and bones are getting bigger and longer. Our bones need
phosphorus, calcium, and magnesium while our muscles need water and
protein to grow. We cannot emphasize enough how important our food
intake in determining how much growth we can possibly obtain.
Undoubtedly, the quality, quantity, and type of food we eat affect our height,
growth, and health.
For a shorter person we personally suggest them to eat more fruits,
vegetables and also yoghurt as well as cheese in order to grow taller and
healthy. The types of food we eat will either improve or decrease our growth
potential. The daily content of protein, carbohydrates, fats and water can be
achieved if the following items were taken regularly. We also should drink 6-8
glasses of water per day and sleeping at least 8 hours a days and taking
naps.

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REFERENCES
1. http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/d.j.wilkinson/teaching/mas131/bignotes.pdf
2. http://faculty.ung.edu/DJSpence/NSF/materials/StatProjectStudentGuide
_Main.pdf
3. http://shs-statisticproject2010.blogspot.com/2010/06/introduction-toour-statistics-project.html
4. George Woodbury (2001). An Introduction to Statistics. Cengage
Learning.
5. Lau Too Kya; Phang Yook Ngor; Zainudin Awang. Statistics 2,E. Penerbit
Fajar Bakti.

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