Attempt any five questions, Q1.

Is compulsory

Q1. State the merits, de-merits and characteristics of median ,mode, quartiles, standard
deviation , mean deviation and quartile deviation

Q2. From the following distribution, find the median, mode, quartiles.

Marks 0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40

No. of 4 6 10 10 55 22 18 5
students

Q3. Calculate Q1 and P5, from following data:

Marks : Below 10 10 – 20 20 – 40 40 – 60 60 – 80 above 80
No. of Students: 8 10 22 25 10 5

Q4. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of Skewness from the following data

Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

No. of 5 6 11 21 35 30 22 18
students

Also find moments and kurtosis and comment on the nature of the distribution.

Q5. For a distribution of 250 heights , calculations showed that the mean , standard deviation ,
β1 and β2 were 54 inches , 3 inches , 0 and 3 inches respectively. It was however , discovered
on checking that the two items 64 and 50 in the original data were wrongly written in place of
the correct values 62 and 52 inches respectively .Calculate the correct frequency constants.

Q6. Calculate mean deviation from the median and its coefficient. Also find quartile deviation

Wages 110 150 200 250 300 350

(Rs)

No. of 4 8 10 20 15 3
workers
 Q7. Calculate Q1, Q3, D2, and P5, from following data:
Marks : Below 10 10 – 20 20 – 40 40 – 60 60 – 80 above 80
No. of Students: 8 10 22 25 10 5

Q8. The following table gives you the distribution of marks secured by some students in an
examination:
Marks No. of Students

0—20 42
21—30 38
31—40 120
41—50 84
51— 60 48
61—70 36
71—80 31

Find the median marks.

Q9. Following are the number of rooms in the houses of a particular locality. Find median of
the data:
No. of rooms: 3 4 5 6 7 8
No of houses: 38 654 311 42 12 2

Q10 . The following table gives the distribution of 100 accidents during seven days of the week
in a given month. During a particular month there were 5 Fridays and Saturdays and only four
each of other days. Calculate the average number of accidents per day.
Days : Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. Total
Number of accidents : 20 22 10 9 11 8 20 = 100

Q11. Median and mode of the wage distribution are known to be Rs. 33.5 and 34 respectively.
Find the missing values.

Wages (Rs.) No. of Workers

0 – 10 4
10 – 20 16
20 – 30 ?
30 – 40 ?
40 – 50 ?
50 – 60 6
60 – 70 4
Q12. In a distribution of 10 observations, the value of mean and standard deviation are given as
20 and 8. By mistake, two values are taken as 2 and 6 instead of 4 and 8. Find out the value of
correct mean and variance.

Q13. Compute (a) Inter-quartile range. (b) Semi-quartile range, and (c)Quartile deviation from
the following data :

Farm Size (acres) No. of firms Farm Size (acres) No. of firms

0 – 40 394 161 – 200 169

41 – 80 461 201 – 240 113
81 – 120 391 24 1 and over 148
121 – 160 334

Q14. Calculate the appropriate measure of skewness from the following cumulative frequency
distribution:
Age (under years) : 20 30 40 50 60 70
No. of persons : 12 29 48 75 94 106

Q15. Calculate the Karl-Pearson’s coefficient of skewness from the following data :
Marks (above) : 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
No. of Students: 150 140 100 80 80 70 30 14 0