Central Tendency and Locational Measures (2)

1. Calculate mean scores of 10 students in a class.

Scores: 70, 120, 110, 101, 88, 83, 95, 98, 107, 100

2. The following is the frequency distribution of the number of telephonic calls received in 245
3. successive one- min intervals at an exchange:

No: of calls: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Frequency: 14 21 25 43 51 40 39 12
Find the mean and median of the data.

4. Calculate the mean of the following frequency distribution:

Marks No: of Students Marks No: of Students

0-10 6 40-50 7
10-20 5 50-60 6
20-30 8 60-70 3
30-40 15

5. In a survey of five cement co., the profit (in Rs lakh) earned during a year was 20, 10, 35 and
32. Find the arithmetic mean of the profit earned.

6. If A, B, C and D are four chemicals costing INR 15, 12, 8 and 5 per 100 gm respectively and
are contained in a given compound in the ratio of 1, 2 , 3 and 4 parts respectively, then what
should be the price of the resultant compound.

7. The daily earnings in INR of employees working on a daily basis in a firm are

Daily earnings 100 120 140 160 180 200 220

No of Employees 3 6 10 14 24 42 75
Calculate the average daily earning for all the employees.

8. A company is planning to improve plant safety. For this, accident data for the last 50 weeks
was compiled. These data are grouped into frequency distribution as shown below.
Calculate the arithmetic mean of the number of accidents per week.

No: of accidents 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24

No: of weeks 5 22 13 8 2

9. The average dividend declared by a group of 10 chemical companies was 18percent later on,
it was discovered that one correct figure 12 was misread as 22. Find the correct average
dividend.

10. The mean of 200 observations was 50. Later on, it was found that two observations were
misread as 92 and 8 instead of 192 and 88. Find the correct mean.
11. An examination was held to decide the award of a scholarship. The weights of various
subjects are different. The marks obtained are given below: Calculate weighted mean.

Subjects English Hindi maths Physics chemistry

Marks 60 75 63 59 55
Weights 1 2 1 3 3

12. The owner of a general store was interested in knowing the mean contribution of his stock
of 5 items. The data is given below: Calculate average contribution per unit.

Product 1 2 3 4 5
Contribution per unit 6 11 8 4 14
Quantity sold 160 60 260 460 110

13. The mean height of 25 male workers in a factory is 61 inches and mean height of 35 female
workers in the same factory is 58 inches. Find the combined mean height of 60 workers in
the factory.

14. The mean yearly salary paid to all employees in a company was INR 24,00,000. The mean
yearly salaries paid to male and female employees were INR 25,00,000 and INR 19,00,000
respectively. Find out the ratio of males to female employees in the company.

15. Income of five employees is : 5900,7020, 6950, 7200, 8280. Find the Median Income.

16. From the following dat of the wages of the 7 workers, compute the median wage.

Wage ( in INR): 4100, 4150, 6080, 7120, 5200, 6160, 7400.

17. Obtain the median value of the following data of the monthly income of the 10 employees of
a company in INR:

4391, 5384, 5591, 5407, 6672, 6522, 6777, 6753, 7850, 749

18. Compute median of the frequency distribution given below:

Daily Earnings 4000 4500 5060 5800 5380 6600

No: of employees 24 26 20 16 30 6

19. Compute median of the frequency distribution given below

Marks 0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45
No: of 29 29 241 117 52 10 6 3 2
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20. An incomplete distribution of the income of 170 workers is given below:

Income in ‘000 Rs No: of workers Income in ‘000 Rs No: of workers

0-10 10 40-50 ?
10-20 20 50-60 25
20-30 ? 60-70 15
 30-40 40

The median income of the employees is 35 INR, Find the missing frequencies.

21. Consider a sample with data values of 53, 55, 70, 58, 64, 57, 53, 69, 57, 68, and 53. Compute
the median.

22. Millions of Americans work from offices in their homes. Following is a sample of age data for
individuals who work at home.

18 54 20 46 25 48 53 27 26 37 40 36 42 25 27 33 28 40 45 25
a. Compute the mean.
b. The median age of all adults is 36 years (the world almanac, 2015). Use the median age
of the proceeding data to comment on whether the at- home workers tend to be younger
or older than the population of all adults.
c. Compute the modal value.

23. Compute the Median and Mode.

Marks No: of Students Marks No: of Students

0-10 3 50-60 15
10-20 5 60-70 12
20-30 7 70-80 6
30-40 10 80-90 2
40-50 12 90-100 8

24. The distribution of the sales in ‘000 is given, find the average sales.

Sales in ‘000 93-97 98-102 103- 107 108- 113-117 118- 123-127 128-132
INR 112 122
Frequency 3 5 12 17 14 6 3 1

25. The following is the age distribution of 1000 persons working in an organization:

Age Group No: of persons Age Group No: of persons

20-25 30 40-45 145
25-30 160 45-50 105
30-35 210 50-55 70
35-40 180 55-60 60
60-65 40
Due to continuous losses, it is desired to bring down the manpower strength to 30 percent of
the present number according to the following scheme:
a. Retrench the first 15 percent from the lower age group.
b. Absorb the next 45 % in other branches.
c. Make 10% from the highest age group retire permanently, if necessary.
d. Calculate the age limits of the persons retained and those to be transferred to
other departments. Also find the average age of those retained.
26. In a small scale firm workers are paid on piece rate basis and also a bonus to each worker on
the basis of individual output in each quarter. The rate of bonus payable is as follows:

Output (Units) 61-75 76-90 91-105 106-120 121-135 136-150

Bonus (Rs.) 10 15 20 25 30 35
The individual output of a batch of 30 workers is given below:
140 139 126 114 100 88 62 77 99 103 108
129 144 148 134 63 69 148 132 118 142 116
123 104 95 80 85 106 123 133
Determine average bonus given to workers, lower limit of top 5% of the output
produced, upper limit of the bottom 10% of the of Bonus paid for the quarter.

27. Two automatic filling machines A and B are used to fill tea in 500 gm cartons. A random
sample of 100 cartons on each machine showed the following:

Tea contents (in gm) 485– 490 490– 495 495– 500 500– 505 505– 510 510– 515
Machine A 12 18 20 22 24 04
Machine B 10 15 24 20 18 13
Compare average filling of the two machines and comment on your findings.

28. In order to estimate how much water will need to be supplied to a locality in East Delhi area
during the summer 2014, the minister asked the general manager of the water supply
department to find out how much water a sample of families currently uses.

The sample of 20 families used the following number of gallons (in thousands) in the past years.

9.3 19.6 14.5 17.8 14.7 15 13.9 12.7 10 13 25

16.3 11.2 20.2 15.4 11.6 16.5 11 12.2 10.9

What is the mean and median amount of water used per family?
Suppose that 10 years from now, the government expects that there will be 1800
families living in that colony. How much gallons of water will be needed annually, if rate
of consumption per family remains the same.