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Dhakre

Practice Set

1. Draw histogram of frequency distribution of marks given below

Marks Obtained10-15 15-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-75 75-100
Frequency 4 12 20 18 14 25 10
2. Calculate the median of the distribution of marks obtained by 80 students as given below
Marks Obtained 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60
Frequency 3 9 15 30 18 5
Also draw Ogive & mark the value of median
3. Prove that sum of squares of deviations from mean is always minimum
4. Derive a formula for calculating combined mean
5. Find A.M of following frequency distribution
X: 0 1 2 3 --- n
n n n
Y: 1 C1 C2 - - Cn
6. Find A.M of following frequency distribution
X: 1 2 3 -- n
Y: k 2k 3k -- nk
7. Find A.M, G.M and H.M for the following series a, ar, ar2… ar (n-1)
Draw Ogive for the following distribution & locate median
Class 2-5 6-9 10-13 14-17 18-22 23-25 26-29 30-33
Frequency 11 19 31 57 65 47 29 13
8 Draw histogram
Marks Obtained 0-50 50-150 150-250 250-400 400-600 600-800
Frequency 70 240 300 270 80 40
n
9. Find A.M, G.M, and H.M of the series 1, 2, 4, 8, 16…………….. 2 in G.P
10. In frequency table the upper boundary of each class interval has a constant ratio to the
lower boundary show that the Geometric Mean G, may be expressed by the formula
C n
l ogG  x    f i ( i  1)
N i 1
Where x0 is the log of the mid value of the first class interval & C is the log of the ratio
between upper and lower boundary
11. A.M of 2 quantities is 6.5 & G.M is 6. Find the quantities & their H.M
12. The mean age of 100 children was 9.35 years. The mean age of 25 of them was 8.75
years. & that of another 65 was 10.51 years. Find the mean age of remaining children.
13. Draw both types of Ogive & locate Q3 & P80
Class 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30
Frequency 5 15 25 10 5 2
14. If mode & mean of a moderately skewed distribution are 15, 20.25cm. Compute the most
probable median.
15 Find A.M of the following series
1) 1, 2, 4, 8, 16…………….. 2n in G.P
2) a, a + d, a + 2d, - - - - - - - a + n d
3) 1st n natural numbers 1, 2, 3… n
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4) 1st 10 integers starting from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

16 Find G.M of the following

1) 3, 8, 9
2) 16, 64
3) X: 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
Y: 8 8 12 18 16 12 8
4)
Class : 10 – 14 15 – 19 20 – 24 25 – 29 30 – 34 35 – 39 40 – 44
f: 10 15 17 25 18 12 8
5)
Class : 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 70 70 – 80
f: 7 23 30 22 11 7
n
6) 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 16……………2 in G.P
7) 12, 22, 32 …………n2
8) The G.M of 6 values is 75 and the G.M of 4 of them is 67. Find the G.M of the other 2
17 Draw histogram for the following
Class : 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60
f: 4 3 11 15 23 12

Class : 0–9 10 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 – 49 50 – 59
f: 8 14 20 30 10 7
Class : 0–3 3–5 5 – 10 10 – 15 15 – 25 25 – 28
f: 45 40 65 60 40 21

Class : 2 -4 4 -8 8 – 14 14 – 16 16 – 20 20 – 24 24 – 26
f: 3 56 144 41 52 32 2

Class : 15 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 – 49 50 – 59 60 – 69 70 – 79
f: 10 56 63 152 240 160 60
18 Draw frequency polygon & curve
1)
Class : 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50
f: 3 5 10 7 4
2)
Class : 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50
f: 2 6 10 7 4

Class : 50 – 60 60 – 70 70 – 80 80 – 90 90 – 100
f: 10 14 7 4 1
19 Draw Ogive
Class: 0 – 5 5 – 10 10 – 15 15 – 20 20 – 25 25 – 30 30 – 35 35 – 40
f: 2 8 15 20 16 10 6 3
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Class : 20 – 25 – 30 35 – 40 – 45 – 50 – 55 – 60 –
25 30 -35 40 45 50 55 60 65
f: 8 10 11 16 20 25 15 9 6
20 Present the following data in the form of a discrete frequency distribution.
3, 11, 6, 4, 10, 7, 2 ,7 , 2 , 5 , 2 , 7 , 11 , 10 , 2 , 2 , 3 , 8 , 9, 2, 3 , 9 , 3 , 8 , 2 , 9 , 7 , 2 , 1,
12, 6 , 2 , 3 , 8 , 9 , 2 , 3 , 12, 4, 5
21 Present the following data in the form of a continuous frequency distribution:
15, 20, 5, 22, 21, 16, 25, 30, 42, 25, 25, 17, 22, 26, 31, 31, 48, 34, 35, 26
22. Present the following data in the form of a discrete frequency distribution.
3, 11, 6, 4, 10, 7, 2, 7, 2, 5, 2, 7, 11, 10, 2, 2, 3, 8, 9, 2, 3, 9, 3, 8, 2, 9, 7, 2, 1, 12, 6, 2, 3,
8, 9, 2, 3, 12
23. Prepare a frequency distribution with tally mark and cumulative frequency taking 5 as the
width of the class-intervals
51, 64, 63, 76, 46, 54, 56, 50, 52, 58, 77, 33, 45, 40, 44, 2, 91, 32, 61, 71, 66, 4, 30, 7, 11,
36, 35, 17, 51, 47, 14, 1, 22, 27, 20, 24, 23, 26, 16, 80,12, 88, 34, 30, 25, 31, 28, 35, 21,
30
24. Prepare a frequency distribution taking 4 as the width of the class-intervals
50, 52, 65, 40, 39, 36, 52, 45, 58, 40, 42, 50, 69, 60, 56, 38, 34, 42, 61, 57, 39, 46, 47, 53,
57, 59, 64, 41, 38, 55
1. The following frequency distribution
x : 10 13 19 27 32 44
f : 3 6 15 9 10 8
(1) Continuous (2) Discrete (3) cumulative (4) None
2. A frequency distribution may be represented by a
(1) Histogram (2) pictogram (3) cartogram (4) None
3. In histogram the frequencies are taken proportional to
(1) Height of rectangles (2) Width of rectangles
(3) Diagonal of rectangles (4) Area of rectangles
4. Which one of the following is a discrete variable?
(1) The temperature recorded every half an hour
(2) Salary of the teachers of college
(3) Income of families in a certain city
(4) Life time of the tubes produced by a certain machine
5. With the help of histogram, we can determine
(1) mean (2) median (3) mode (4) quartile
6. Cumulative frequency polygon is also known as
(1) Ogive (2) histogram (3) pictogram (4) None
7. If W and F are the width and frequency of the class-interval respectively, then
constructing a histogram for a frequency distribution with unequal class-intervals height
of each rectangle is proportion to
(1) F (2) W (3) F/W (4) W/F
8. Match list I with II and select the correct answer using the codes given the lists
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List I List II
(i) Histogram (A) Class-interval
(ii) Frequency polygon (B) Upper limits
(iii) Less than Ogive (C) Lower limits
(iv) More than Ogive ( D) Mid value
Codes
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(1) A D B C
(2) D B C A
(3) B C A D
(4) C A D B
10. Which one of the following is not defined for negative values?
(1) Arithmetic Mean (2) Geometric Mean
(3) Harmonic Mean (3) All of these
11. The arithmetic mean of the numbers 1, 2, 3,- - - - , n is
(1) [n (n+1)(2n+1)/6] (2) [n(n+1)2/4]
(3) [n(n+1)/2] (4) None of these
12. The mean of squares of first n natural numbers is
(1) [(n+1) (n-1)/2] (2) [(n+1) (2n+1)/6]
(3) [(n+1) (2n+1)/3] (4) [(n+1) (2n-1)/6]
13. Arithmetic mean of a frequency distribution is 4. If every frequency is doubled, the
arithmetic mean no will be
(1) 2 (2) 8 (3) 4 (4) 6
14. The most suitable measure of central tendency is
(1) mean (2) median (3) mode (d) range
15. If the grouped frequency has open –end classes, then we cannot determine
(1) mean (2) median (3) mode (4) range
16. Fro unequal value of a series, the arithmetic mean (AM), geometric mean (GM) and
harmonic mean (HM) are related(under certain assumptions) as
(1) AM = GM = HM (2) AM < GM < HM
(3) AM > GM > HM (4) AM < HM <GM
17. The sum of squares of deviation is least when measured from
(1) Median (2) mean (3) mode (4) none
18. Consider the following statement and select the correct answer from the codes given
below
I. Arithmetic mean is affected by the change of origin
II. Arithmetic mean is affected by the change of scale
III If each frequency is multiplied by a constant, then arithmetic mean will not
change.
Codes
(1) only I is true (2) I and II are true
(3) II and III (4) I, II and III are true
19. The relation between mean, median and mode for a moderately asymmetrical frequency
distribution is
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(1) Mean = 3 median – 2 mode

(2) Mode = 3 median – 2 mean
(3) Median = mean – mode
(4) None of these

20. The geometric mean of 2, 4, 0, 8, 6 is

(1) 4 (2) 0 (3) 6 (4) 
21. Geometric mean of 4, 6 and x is 6. The value of x is
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 6 (4) 9
22. When data contains a value equal to zero, we cannot calculate
(1) AM (2) HM (3) Median (4) Mode
23. For the calculation of arithmetic mean in case of grouped frequency distribution, the
class-interval should be
(1) Exclusive (2) Unequal (3) Equal (4) all are possible
24. The square root of the product of arithmetic mean and harmonic mean of two
observations is
(1) GM (2) weighted mean (3) Median (4) None
25. The average which do not dependent on all the observation are
(1) mean and median (2) median and mode
(3) mean and mode (4) mean , median and mode
26. The value of a variable, which occurs most frequently in a distribution, is called
(1) GM (2) weighted mean (3) Median (4) Mode
27. The second name of second quartile is
(1) Median (2) mode (3) mean (4) none
28. If the median of 3, 4, x and 8 is 5, then the value of x is
(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6
29. A statistical measure which cannot be determined graphically is
(1) Median (2) mode (3) mean (4) HM
30. The mean of 20 observations is 7. If each observation is multiplied by 3 and then 5 is
added to it, then the mean of the new observation is
(1) 12 (2) 26 (3) 21 (4) 27
31. For any two values having AM 10 and GM 8, the harmonic mean is
(1) 9 (2) 6.4 (3) 4.6 (4) 5.8
32. The AM of a set of observation is 9 and their HM is 4, then the GM will be
(1) 6.5 (2) 6 (3) 36 (4) 7.5
33. Average size of readymade garments is best represented by the type of average
(1) AM (2) quadratic mean (3) Median (4) mode
th
34. 50 percentile is equal to
(1) median (2) Q1 (3) Q3 (4) D6
35. If median = 20 and mean = 16, then mode is
(1) 25 (2) 28 (3) 23 (4) 32
36. The mean of x1, x2, x3, - - - - , xn where
xi = [i2 / 7] + 5 , I = 1,2, - - - , 0
(1) 11/7 (2)46/7 (3) 5.5 (4) 10.5
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37. Make correct pairs and select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
(A) Median 1.A value of the variable having maximum frequency
(B) Mean 2.A figure obtained by dividing the sum of all values by their number
(C) Mode 3.A value in the middle of the series
(D) GM 4.Not defined for negative values
A B C D
(1) 3 2 1 4
(2) 2 1 4 3
(3) 1 4 3 2
(4) 2 3 4 1