GRANDMASTERS CONSULTANCY (GMC)

BRIDGE CUM SKILL BUILDING TRAINING (BSBT)

FOUNDATION COURSE IN STATISTICAL AND QUANTITATIVE REASONING

PRACTICE QUESTIONS
MODULE-II

1) Measures of central tendency are

a) Inferential statistics that identify the best single value for representing a set of data.
b) Descriptive statistics that identify the best single value for representing a set of data
c) Inferential statistics that identify the spread of the scores in a data set
d) Descriptive statistics that identify the spread of the scores in a data set.
2) The mean is
a) The statistical or arithmetic average
b) The middlemost score
c) The most frequently occurring score
d) The best representation for every set of data
3) Given the following data set, what is the value of the median? [ 2 4 3 6 1 8 9 2 5 7 ]
a) 2
b) 4.7
c) 4.5
d) 10
4) Which of the following is not a characteristic of the mean?
a) It is affected by extreme scores.
b) It minimizes the sum of squared deviations.
c) The sum of the deviations about the mean is 0.
d) It is best used with ordinal data.
5) A measure of central tendency tells us, using a single value, the best representation
for an entire set of scores. A measure of variability tells us
a) If the high and low extreme scores cancel each other out
b) If the mean is greater than the mode
c) How well the measure of central tendency represents the entire set of scores.
d) Whether or not to compute percentiles.
6) Given the following set of data, what is the range? [ 12 23 34 54 21 8 9 67 ]
a) 55
b) 59
c) 8
d) 56
7) Use the following data set to answer the next three questions.
Value 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Frequency 8 12 10 4 3 0 0 1
 What is the value of the mean?
a) 4.75
b) 6.34
c) 6.5
d) 7
8) Mode is:
a) Middle most value
b) Least frequent value
c) Most frequent value
d) None of these
9) The mean of the following data is : 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 :
a) 15
b) 25
c) 35
d) 30
10) The abscissa of the point of intersection of the less than type and of the more thanty
pe cumulative frequency curves of a grouped data gives its :
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) All the three above
11) Which of the following measures of central tendency can have more than one valuei
n a single sample?
a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) none of the above
12) What would happen to the mean if all of the scores were converted by subtracting10
points from each score?
a) The mean would be unchanged.
b) The mean would increase by 10 points.
c) The mean would decrease by 10 points.
d) The mean would decrease by an amount equal to 10 points divided by the number of
participants.
13) A researcher has collected the following sample data.
5 12 6 8 5 6 7 5 12 4 1
The median is
a) 5
b) 6
c) 7
d) 8
14) A researcher has collected the following sample data.
5 12 6 8 5 6 7 5 12 4
The mode is
a) 5
b) 6
c) 7
d) None of the above
15) Find out the mean and median of 1, 2, 3, 6, 8.
a) 4, 6
b) 4, 3
c) 4, 2
d) 4, 8
16) Find the mode of 3, 5, 6, 6, 5, 3, 5, 3, 6, 5, 3, 5, 7, 6, 5, 7, 5.
a) 3
b) 5
c) 7
d) 6
17) Find the median and mode for the set of numbers 2, 2, 3, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9.
a) 3, 3
b) 7, 7
c) 8, 8
d) 6,6
18) For what value of x, the mode of the following data is 27 ?
25, 26, 27, 23, 27, 26, 24, x, 27, 26, 25, 25.
a) 24
b) 25
c) 26
d) 27
19) Find the mode, median and mean of the following data.
15, 17, 16, 7, 10, 12, 14, 16, 19, 12, 16.
a) 16, 15, 14
b) 15, 16, 17
c) 16, 17, 18
d) 14, 16, 18
20) The median is a measure of
a) Relative dispersion
b) Absolute dispersion
c) Central location
d) Relative location
21) The most frequently occurring value of a data set is called the
a) Range
b) Mode
c) Mean
d) Median
22) Which of the following provides a measure of central location for the data?
a) Standard deviation
b) Mean
c) Variance
d) Range
23) Which of the following symbols represents the mean of the sample?
a) 2
b) 
c) X
d) d.
24) Which of the following symbols represents the size of the population?
a) 2
b) 
c) 
d) N
25) Asam took 7 maths tests and got scores of 68, 71, 71, 84, 53, 62 and 67. What was
Asam's mode score?
a) 63
b) 68
c) 71
d) None of these
26) What is the mean average of these numbers: 18, 12, 10, 10, 25?
a) 10
b) 12
c) 15
d) 20

27) The mean average of three numbers is 8. Two of the numbers are 11 and 7. What is
the third number? 6
a) 4
b) 6
c) 7
d) 8
28) What is the mode of these numbers: 75, 78, 75, 71, 78, 25, 75, 29?
a) 25
b) 75
c) 78
d) 79
29) What is the median of these numbers: 2.4, 2.8, 2.3, 2.9, 2.9?
a) 2.3
b) 2.8
c) 2.9
d) None of these
30) The 30 students in a class did a survey of their favorite movie series and recorded
the results as follows:

Movies Frequency

Twilight 10

Harry Potter 6

Narnia 2

High school Musical 9

Pirates of the 3
Caribbean
Total 30

What was the relative frequency for High School Musical?

a) 0.09
b) 0.3
c) 0.33
d) 0.43
31) The Lakers scored the following numbers of goals in their last twenty matches:
3, 0, 1, 5, 4, 3, 2, 6, 4, 2, 3, 3, 0, 7, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3
Which number had the highest frequency?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 6
d) 7
32) A quantitative characteristics like weight of person, examination marks, is called
as?
a) Variable
b) Attributes
c) Frequency
d) None of these
33) The mid point of a class is obtained by ______________
a) Adding upper and lower limits
b) Dividing the difference of upper and lower limits by two
c) Adding upper and lower limits and dividing it by two
d) By deducting the upper limit from the lower limit.
34) The data originally collected from an investigation are known as _____
a) Primary data
b) Secondary data
c) Both (a) & (b)
d) None of these
35) Mode is found graphically by ________________
a) Frequency polygon
b) Ogive
c) Simple bar diagram
d) Histogram
36) Median is found graphically by ________________
a) Frequency polygon
b) Ogive
c) Simple bar diagram
d) Histogram
37) If the class interval 10-20 then midvalue or mid point of the class is
a) 10
b) 15
c) 20
d) 30
38) The series of observation which contains two modes is called
a) Unimodal
b) Bimodal
c) Trimodal
d) None of these
39) A visual representation of the frequency distribution where the frequencies are
represented by adjacent bars is called a
a) Frequency polygon
b) Scatter gram
c) Histogram
d) Tally chart
40) The horizontal axis on a graph is called the
a) X-Axis
b) Y-Axis
c) Z- Axis
d) Frequency axis
41) The vertical axis on a graph is called the
a) X-Axis
b) Y-Axis
c) Z-Axis
d) Nominal Axis
The following pie-chart shows the percentage distribution of the expenditure incurred in
publishing a book. Study the pie-chart and the answer the questions based on it.

Various Expenditures (in percentage) Incurred in Publishing a Book

Promotion Cost
10%

Printing Cost
Royalty 20%
15% Transportation
Cost 10%
10%
Binding
20% Paper Cost
25%

42) If for a certain quantity of books, the publisher has to pay Rs. 30,600 as printing
cost, then what will be amount of royalty to be paid for these books?
a) 19450
b) 21200
c) 22959
d) None of these
43) What is the central angle of the sector corresponding to the expenditure incurred on
Royalty?
a) 15
b) 24
c) 54
d) 48
44) The price of the book is marked 20% above the C.P. If the marked price of the book
is Rs. 180, then what is the cost of the paper used in a single copy of the book?
a) 36
b) 37.5
c) 42
d) 44
45) If 5500 copies are published and the transportation cost on them amounts to Rs.
82500, then what should be the selling price of the book so that the publisher can
earn a profit of 25%?
a) 187.5
b) 345
c) 234
d) 123
46) Royalty on the book is less than the printing cost by:
a) 25%
b) 45%
c) 34%
d) None of these
47) Type of cumulative frequency distribution in which class intervals are added in top
to bottom order is classified as
a) variation distribution
b) less than type distribution
c) more than type distribution
d) marginal distribution
48) Type of cumulative frequency distribution in which class intervals are added in
bottom to top order is classified as
a) more than type distribution
b) marginal distribution
c) variation distribution
d) less than type distribution
49) 'less than type distribution' and 'more than type distribution' are types of
a) class distribution
b) cumulative class distribution
c) cumulative frequency distribution
d) upper limit distribution
50) Distribution which shows cumulative figure of all observations placed below upper
limit of classes in distribution is considered as
a) cumulative frequency distribution
b) upper limit distribution
c) class distribution
d) cumulative class distribution
51) Class frequency is divided by number of observations in frequency distribution to
convert it into
a) relative margin distribution
b) relative variable distribution
c) relative frequency distribution
 d) relative width distribution
52) A frequency polygon is very similar to a
a) histogram
b) stem and leaf display
c) listing of raw data
d) Cant say
53) Check all that apply. Frequency polygons are better than histograms for:
a) showing the shape of the distribution
b) comparing distributions
c) revealing the exact values in a distribution
d) None of these

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54) Sum of all observation divided by number of observation is known as ------------

55) A qualitative characteristics like religion ,nationality,sex is called -------

56) When the given data arranged in increasing or decreasing order of their values, the
middle most observation is called -----------------

57) The class having maximum frequency is called _________

58) Nationality of a person is _____________

59) Diagrams and Graphs are tool of______________

OBJECTIVE QUESTION

60) The heights of five runners are 160 cm, 137 cm, 149 cm, 153 cm and 161 cm
respectively. Find the mean height per runner.

61) Find the mean of the first five prime numbers.

62) Find the mean of the first six multiples of 4.

63) Find the arithmetic mean of the first 7 natural numbers.

64) If the mean of 9, 8, 10, x, 12 is 15, find the value of x.

65) If the mean of five observations x, x + 4, x + 6, x + 8 and x +12 is 16, find the value of x.
 66) The mean of 40 numbers was found to be 38. Later on, it was detected that a number 56
was misread as 36. Find the correct mean of given numbers.

67) The mean of the heights of 6 boys is 152 cm. If the individual heights of five of them are
151 cm, 153 cm, 155 cm, 149 cm and 154 cm, find the height of the sixth boy.

ANSWERS

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. (b) 19. (a) 38. (b)

2. (a) 20. (c) 39. (c)
3. (c) 21. (b) 40. (a)
4. (d) 22. (b) 41. (b)
5. (c) 23. (d) 42. (c)
6. (a) 24. (d) 43. (c)
7. (b) 25. (C) 44. (b)
8. (c) 26. (b) 45. (a)
9. (d) 27. (b) 46. (a)
10. (b) 28. (b) 47. (b)
11. (d) 29. (b)
48. (a)
12. (c) 30. (b)
31. (a) 49. (c)
13. (b)
14. (a) 32. (a) 50. (a)
15. (b) 33. (c) 51. (c)
34. (a) 52. (a)
16. (b)
35. (d) 53. (b)
17. (d) 36. (b)
18. (d) 37. (B)
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54. Mean
55. Attributes
56. Median
57. Modal class
58. An attributes
59. Presentation of data

OBJECTIVE QUESTION
60. 152 cm.
61. 5.6
62. 14.
63. 4.
64. x = 36.
65. x = 10.
66. 38.5.
67. 150 cm.
 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR PRACTICE

1) Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency?

a) Mean
b) Median
c) Range
d) Mode

2) The measures of central tendency which can’t be found graphically is

a) Mean
b) Median
c) Mode
d) None of these
3) For a given data with 50 observations the ‘less than ogive’ and the ‘more thenogive’
intersect at (15.5, 20). The median of the data is :
a) 4.5
b) 20
c) 50
d) 15.5
4) While computing mean of grouped data, we assume that the frequencies are :
a) Evenly distributed over all the classes
b) Centred at the class-marks of the classes
c) Centred at the upper limits of the classes
d) Centred at the lower limits of the classes
5) The curve drawn by taking upper limits along x-
axis and cumulative frequency alongy-axis is :
a) Frequency polygon
b) More than ogive
c) Less than ogive
d) None of these
6) For ‘more than ogive’ the x-axis represents :
a) Upper limits of class-intervals
b) Mid-values of class-intervals
c) Lower limits of class-intervals
d) Frequency
7) Ogive is the graph of :
a) Lower limits and frequency
b) Upper limits and frequency
c) Lower/upper limits and cumulative frequency
d) None of these
8) The curve ‘less than ogive’ is always :
a) Ascending
b) Descending
c) sometimes ascending and sometimes descending
d) none of these
9) Calculate Arithmatic mean
X Frequency
1 2
2 3
3 4
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
10) Calculate Arithmatic mean
Age Frequency
(Years)
0-5 6
5-10 12
10-15 19
15-20 3
a) 7
b) 8
c) 9
d) 9.874
11) A die is thrown 20 times and the following scores were recorded 6, 3, 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 1,
3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 1, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 2.
Prepare the frequency table of scores on the upper face of the die and find the
mean score.
a) 3
b) 4
c) 4.05
d) 4.5
12) If the mean of the following distribution is 9, find the value of p.
X 4 6 P+7 10 15
F 5 10 10 7 8
a) 1
b) 2
c) 3
d) 4
13) The following table shows the number of plants in 20 houses in a group. Find the
mean number of plans per house
 Number 0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 12-14
of Plants
Number 1 2 2 4 6 2 3
of Houses
a) 8
b) 9
c) 10
d) 11
14) Thirty students in a class sat a science test. The results are recorded in groups as
follows. Estimate the median mark correct to 1 decimal place.
Marks 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79
Number 1 1 10 11 5 2
a) 52.7
b) 52.8
c) 52.9
d) 53.0
15) The numbers of words in each of the first eighty sentences of a book were
counted. The results are recorded in groups as follows. Estimate the median length
of sentence correct to 1 decimal place.
Number 1-4 5-8 9-12 13-16 17-20 21-24 25-28 29-32
of Words
Number 2 5 11 23 21 13 4 1
a) 16
b) 16.4
c) 16.6
d) 16.8
16) Thirty students in a class sat a science test. The results are recorded in groups as
follows. Estimate modal length upto decimal 1.
Marks 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79
Number 1 1 10 11 5 2
a) 51.2
b) 51.3
c) 51.4
d) 51.5

17) The numbers of words in each of the first eighty sentences of a book were
counted. The results are recorded in groups as follows. Estimate the modal length of
sentence correct to 1 decimal place.
Number 1-4 5-8 9-12 13-16 17-20 21-24 25-28 29-32
of Words
Number 2 5 11 23 21 13 4 1
 a) 16.2
b) 16.4
c) 16.6
d) 16.8
18) What's your favorite food? Pizza/Pasta/Salad/Steak/Soup/Other; if this is a question
asked in the survey. Then which scale is applied here?
a) Nominal
b) Ranking
c) Ordinal
d) None of these
19) How much is your family income? Select the range. Below 2lacs, 2-4 lacs, 4lacs and
above. In this type of survey question which type of scale is used?
a) Nominal
b) Ranking
c) Ordinal
d) None of these
20) What's your favorite beverages? Rank in order of
preference.Milk/Water/Juice/Coffee/Soda/Wine/Beer
Which type of scale is used?
a) Nominal
b) Ranking
c) Ordinal
d) None of these
21) Business decisions may be made by interpreting a statistical analysis of the variables
of the process associated with the decision or by using instinct and insight derived
from experience with the business process. When might a decision be made by these
latter more "unstructured" techniques?
a) Variables associated with the business process cannot be measured.
b) Instinct is part of statistics.
c) The business process on which the decision is made is unknown.
d) Instinct or insight is always used in decision-making.
22) Which of the following exhibits the correct relationship between variables and
values?
a) Red; price of an automobile
b) Color of an automobile; price of an automobile
c) Red, Rs 23000
d) Color of an automobile, Rs 23000
23) A statistics professor surveys the students in her class and finds that 20% are
sophomores and 45% are juniors. This is an example of:
a) Descriptive
b) Inferential
 c) Nominal
d) Secondary
24) Which of the following does not represent one method to obtain primary source
data?
a. Looking in professional magazines
b. Sending survey to customers
c. Making observations
d. Conducting an experiment
25) The grades that a random sample of MBA students received over the last five years
of “International Business” classes represent what statistical concept?
e. The grades are a parameter.
f. The grades are a statistic.
g. The grades are simple
h. The grades are a population
26) What method is used to sample a population so that it is representative of the
population?
i. Samples are chosen at random from population
j. Only the first half a population is selected
k. Every other element in a population is chosen
l. All but observations that have lowest and highest values are selected
27) A newspaper advertising sales representative earns a commission on each
advertisement sold. This person made Rs3,000 in commissions during one month
and concludes that annual compensation will be Rs36,000. This is an example of:
m. Secondary data
n. Inferential statistics
o. Descriptive statistics
p. Nominal data
28) A consumer confidence researcher asks several retailers to report the number of
LCD televisions sold during a particular month. These numbers most likely
represent what level of measurement?
q. Ratio
r. Ordinal
s. Nominal
t. Interval
29) A student evaluation of teaching effectiveness for a particular course asks students
to respond to their level of agreement with several statements according to the scale
1 = Strongly Agree, 2 = Agree, 3 = Neutral, 4 = Disagree, and 5 = Strongly Disagree.
The responses indicate what level of measurement?
u. Ratio
v. Internal
w. Nominal
 x. Ordinal
30) A company publishes data on its quarterly earnings for its stockholders to evaluate.
Is this data primary or secondary source data?
y. The source is secondary for both the company and stakeholders
z. The source is primary for the company and secondary stakeholders
aa. The source is secondary for the company and primary stakeholders
bb. The source is primary for both the company and stakeholders
31) If you have a digital scale in your home that only reads in integers, is your weight a
discrete variable?
cc. No
dd. Depends on your weight
ee. Yes
ff. Depends on the accuracy of the machine
32) Look at the survey questions that Good Tunes sent to their customers. What type of
variable and levels of measurement do the questions concerning overall service,
selection, and quality of the items purchased represent?
gg. Categorical variables are measured on nominal scale
hh. Categorical variables are measured on internal scale
ii. Categorical variables are measured on ordinal scale
jj. Categorical variables are measured on ratio scale
33) A question on a product registration card asks, “How much money do you plan to
spend on DVD movie purchases during the next 6 months?” What type of variable
and level of measurement does your response represent?
kk. Continuous variables are measured on interval scale
ll. Discrete variables are measured on ordinal scale
mm. Continuous variables are measured on ratio scale
nn. Discrete variables are measured nominal scale
34) How might you obtain a statistic, that is a numerical value, from a categorical
variable that has "Yes" or "No" as the only possible responses?
oo. You could count the number of "Yes" and "No" responses in the sample.
pp. At best you could only obtain an ordinal measure or ranking of the responses if you
count one response over the other.
qq. You cannot obtain a numerical value from a categorical variable.
rr. You could count the number of possible responses (two).

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35) A ----------------------- scale, as the name implies, is simply some placing of data into
categories, without any order or structure.
36) In research activities a YES/NO scale is -----------------
37) The simplest ordinal scale is a -----------------------
 38) When you are asked to rate your satisfaction with a piece of software on a 7 point scale,
from Dissatisfied to Satisfied, you are using an -------------scale.

Objective Questions

Use the ogive to answer the questions below.

39) How many students got between 50% and 70%?

40) How many students got at least 70%?
41) Compute the average mark for this class, rounded to the nearest integer.

The following data set lists the ages of 24 people. Use the data to answer the following
questions.

2; 5; 1; 76; 34; 23; 65; 22; 63; 45; 53; 38

4; 28; 5; 73; 79; 17; 15; 5; 34; 37; 45; 56

42) Using an interval width of 8 construct a cumulative frequency plot.
43) How many are below 30?
44) How many are below 60?
45) What value the bottom 50% of the ages fall.
46) Below what value do the bottom 40% fall?
47) Construct a frequency polygon.

The following graph is a histogram representing the weight of 100 children:

 48) Create the respective table of distribution.

49) If John weighs 72 pounds, how many students are lighter than he is?
50) Calculate the mode.
51) Calculate the median.
52) In what quartile are 25% of the heaviest pupils found?

ANSWERS

MULTIPLE CHOICES

1. (c) 18. (a)

2. (a) 19. (c)
3. (d) 20. (b)
4. (b) 21. (a)
5. (c) 22. (a)
6. (c) 23. (a)
7. (c) 24. (a)
8. (a) 25. (c)
9. (b) 26. (a)
10. (d) 27. (b)
11. (c) 28. (a)
12. (b) 29. (d)
13. (a) 30. (b)
14. (a) 31. (a)
15. (d) 32. (c)
16. (c) 33. (c)
17. (b) 34. (a)
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35. Nominal
36. Nominal.
37. Ranking.
38. Interval

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS

39. 20
40. 15
41. 60%
42. .

43. 11
44. 19
45. 34
46. (25,5)
47.

48. Table of distribution.

X F Fi
60-63 61.5 5 5
63-66 64.5 18 23
66-69 67.5 42 65
69-72 70.5 27 92
72-75 73.5 8 100
100

49. 92
50. 67.85
51. 67.93
52. 70.11