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1. The median of a set of 9 distinct observations is 20.5. If each of the largest 4 observations of the set is
increased by 2, then the median of the new set (2003)
(a) Remains the same as that of the original set (b) Is increased by 2
(c) Is decreased by 2 (d) Is 2 times the original median
2. If in a frequency distribution, the mean and median are 21 and 22 respectively, then its mode is approxi-
mately (2005)
(a) 24.0 (b) 25.5 (c) 20.5 (d) 22.0
3. If for some x  R, the frequency distribution of the marks obtained by 20 students in a test is :
Marks 2 3 5 7
Frequency (x + 1)2 2x – 5 x2 – 3x x
then the mean of the marks is : (2019)
(a) 2.8 (b) 3.2 (c) 3.0 (d) 2.5
4. In a class of 100 students there are 70 boys whose average marks score in a subject is 75. If the average
marks score of the complete class is 72, then what is the average marks score of the girls ? (2002)
(a) 73 (b) 65 (c) 68 (d) 74
5. The average marks of boys in a class is 52 and that of girls is 42. The average marks of boys and girls
combined is 50. The percentage of boys in the class is (2007)
(a) 40 (b) 20 (c) 80 (d) 60
6. The mean of the data set comprising of 16 observations is 16. If one of the observation values 16 is deleted
and three new observations values 3, 4 and 5 are added to the data, then the mean of the resultant data, is
(2015)
(a) 16.0 (b) 15.8 (c) 14.0 (d) 16.8
7. The mean and the median of the following ten numbers in increasing order 10, 22, 26, 29, 34, x 42, 67, 70,
y are 42 and 35 respectively, then y/x is equal to (2019)
(a) 7/3 (b) 9/4 (c) 7/2 (d) 8/3
8. The variance of first 50 even natural numbers is (2014)
833 437
(a) (b) 833 (c) 437 (d)
4 4
9 9

9. If  (x i  5)  9 and  (x i  5) 2  45, then the standard deviation of the 9 items x , x ,..., x is: (2018)
1 2 9
i 1 i 1

(a) 9 (b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 3

10. Suppose, a population A has 100 observations 101, ..., 200 and another population B has 100 observa-
VA
tions 151, 152, ..., 250. If VA and VB represent the variances of the two populations respectively, then
VB
is (2006)
9 4 2
(a) (b) (c) (d) 1
4 9 3

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11. If both the mean and the standard deviation of 50 observations x1, x2, ..., x50 are equal to 16, then the mean
of (x1  4) 2 , (x 2  4) 2 ,...., (x 50  4) 2 is : (2019)
(a) 525 (b) 380 (c) 480 (d) 400
n n

12. A data consists of a n observations : x1 , x 2 ,...., x n . If  (x i  1) 2  9n and  (x i  1) 2  5n, then the

i 1 i 1

standard deviation of this data is : (2019)

(a) 5 (b) 5 (c) 7 (d) 2
13. Let x1, x2, ..., xn be n observations such tht  x12  400 and  x1  80. Then, a possible value of n among
the following is (2005)
(a) 12 (b) 9 (c) 18 (d) 15
14. In an experiment with 15 observations on x, the following results were obtained  x 2  2830,  x  170
One observation that was 20 was fond to be wrong and was replaced by the correct value 30. Then the
corrected variance is (2003)
(a) 80.33 (b) 78.00 (c) 188.66 (d) 177.33
15. If the date x1, x2, ..., x10 is such that the mean of first four of these is 11, the mean of the remaining six is 16
and the sum of squares of all of these is 2, 000; then the standard deviation of this data is : (2019)
(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 2 (d) 2 2
16. If the sum of the deviations of 50 observations from 30 is 50, then the mean of these observation is :
(2019)
(a) 50 (b) 51 (c) 30 (d) 31
17. In a series of 2n observations, half of them equal a and remaining half –a. If the standard deviation of the
observations is 2, then |a| equals (2004)
(a) 2 (b) 2 (c) 1/n (d) 2/n
1
18. The outcome of each of 30 items was observed; 10 items gave an outcome  d each, 10 items gave
2
1 1
outcome each and the remaining 10 items gave outcome + d each. If the variance of this outcome
2 2
4
data is then | d | equals : (2019)
3
5 2
(a) 2 (b) (c) (d) 2
2 3
19. If the mean deviation of number 1, 1 + d, 1 + 2d, ..., 1 + 100d from their mean is 255, then d is equal to
(2009)
(a) 10.0 (b) 20.0 (c) 10.1 (d) 20.2
20. If the standard deviation of the numbers –1, 0, 1, k is 5 where k > 0, then k is equal to (2019)

10 5
(a) 2 (b) 2 6 (c) 4 (d) 6
3 3
21. If the standard deviation of the numbers 2, 3, a & 11 is 3.5, then which of the following is true? (2016)
(a) 3a2 – 23a + 44 = 0 (b) 3a2 – 26a + 55 = 0
(c) 3a2 – 32a + 84 = 0 (d) 3a2 – 34a + 91 = 0

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22. A student scores the following marks in five tests : 45, 54, 41, 57, 43. His score is not known for the sixth test.
If the mean scoe is 48 in the six tests, then the standard deviation of the marks in six tests is (2019)
10 100 100 10
(a) (b) (c) (d)
3 3 3 3
23. The mean of the numbers a, b, 8, 5, 10 is 6 and the variance is 6.80. Then, which one of the following gives
possible values of a and b ? (2008)
(a) a = 0, b = 7 (b) a = 5, b = 2 (c) a = 1, b = 6 (d) a = 3, b = 4
24. The mean and the variance of five observation are 4 and 5.20, respectively. If three of the observations are
3, 4 and 4; then then absolute value of the difference of the other two observations, is : (2019)
(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 7 (d) 5
25. The mean and variance of seven observations are 8 and 16, respectively. If 5 of the observations are 2, 3,
10, 12, 14 then the product of the remaining two observations is : (2019)
(a) 40 (b) 49 (c) 48 (d) 45
26. The mean of five observations is 5 and their variance is 9.20. If three of the given five observations are
1, 3 and 8, then a ratio of other two observations is : (2019)
(a) 4 : 9 (b) 6 : 7 (c) 5 : 8 (d) 10 : 3
27. 5 students of a class have an average height 150 cm and variance 18 cm2. A new student, whose height is
156 cm, joined them. The variance (in cm2) of the height of these six students is : (2019)
(a) 22 (b) 20 (c) 16 (d) 18
28. If mean and standard deviation of 5 observations x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 are 10 and 3, respectively, then the
variance of 6 observations x1, x2, ..., x5 and –50 is equal to : (2019)
(a) 582.5 (b) 507.5 (c) 586.5 (d) 509.5
29. For two data sets, each of size 5, the variances are given to be 4 and 5 and the corresponding means are
given to be 2 and 4, respectively. The variance of the combined data set is (2010)
5 11 13
(a) (b) (c) 6 (d)
2 2 2
30. All the students of a class performed porly in Mathematics. The teacher decided to give grace marks of 10
to each of the students. Which of the following statistical measures will not change even after the grace
marks were given ? (2013)
(a) Mean (b) Median (c) Mode (d) Variance
31. Let x1, x2, ..., xn be n observations and x be their arithmetic mean and  2 be the variance. (2012)
Statement-I : Variance of 2x1, 2x2, ..., 2xn is 4 2 .
Statement-II : Arithmetic mean 2x1, 2x2, ..., 2xn is 4x.
(a) Statement-I is false, Statement-II is true
(b) Statement-I is true, Statement-II is true, Statement-II is a correct explanation for Statement-I
(c) Statement-I is true, Statement-II is true, Statement-II is not a correct explanation for Statement-I
(d) Statement-I is true, Statement-II is false

(ANSWERS)

1.a 2.a 3.a 4.b 5.c 6.c 7.a

8.b 9.c 10.d 11.d 12.b 13.c 14.b
15.b 16.d 17.a 18.d 19.c 20.b 21.c
22.a 23.d 24.c 25.c 26.a 27.b 28.b
29.b 30.d 31.d

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