GAT PREPARATION

(GRADUATE ADMISSION TEST

PREPARATION)

ADMAS UNIVERSITY
STATISTICS
By: ADAMU GIZACHEW (Ph.D)
MELAKU BERHE (Ph.D)
DEREJE WASIHUN (Ph.D)
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1. What is the average of the data set: 3, 4, 5, 0, 8, and 10?

A. 4
B.5
C.6
D.7

Answer: B ?

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2. Considering the frequency table below, the mean of the data is

A. 2.5 Number of Children (𝒙) Frequency (𝒇)

0 4
B. 3
1 3
C. 2
2 9
D. 1.5
3 2

Answer: D ?

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3. Consider the grouped data in the table below, and estimate the mean of the data

A. 1.75 m Height 𝒉 of a tree (in metres) Frequency

B. 1.17 m 0 ≤ ℎ < 0.5 4
C. 2.71 m 0.5 ≤ ℎ < 1.2 20
1.2 ≤ ℎ < 1.5 5
D. 1.71 m
1.5 ≤ ℎ < 2.5 11

Answer: B ?

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4. The mean maths score of 20 pupils in class A is 62. The mean maths score of 30 pupils

in class B is 75. What is the overall mean of all the pupils’ marks?
A. 65
B. 69.8
C. 68.5
D. 25
Answer: B ?

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5. Two fair spinners each have four sectors numbered 1 to 4. The two spinners are spun
together and the sum of the numbers indicated on each spinner is recorded.
Find the probability of the spinners indicating a sum of exactly 5.

A. 0.5
B. 0.25
C. 0.75
D. 0.6

Answer: B. ?

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6.

So what is the value of 𝑘?

A. 𝑘 = 2
B. 𝑘 = -2
1
C. 𝑘 =
6

D. 𝑘 = 6

Answer: C ?

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7. If the standard deviation of a data is 4.5 and if each value of the data is decreased by 5,
then the new standard deviation.
A. 5
B. 2.5
C. 0.5
D. 4.5

Answer: D ?

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8. If the standard deviation of a data is 3.6 and each value of the data is divided by 3, then
the new variance and new standard deviation respectively are
A. 3.6, 12.96
B. 1.2, 1.44
C. 12.96, 3.6
D. 1.44, 1.2
Answer: D ?

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9. In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue, and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly.
What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?
A. 1/3
B. 3/4
C. 8/21
D. 7/19

Answer: A ?

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10. A die is tossed twice. What is the probability of getting a sum of 10?

A. 1/18
B. 1/6
C. 1/12
D. 5/12

Answer: C ?

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11. Which one of the following is not the resource of secondary
data?
A. Magazine
B. Electoral Statistics
C. Health Records
D. Books
E. None

Answer: E ?
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12. Primary data can be collected using___

A. Questionnaire
B. Observations
C. Interview
D. All

Answer: D ?

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13. A smaller and more manageable representation of a larger group

is called_____.
A. Population
B. Sample
C. Parameter
D. Census

Answer: B ?

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14. Which one of the following is not used for data presentation?
A. Table
B. Diagram
C. Graph
D. None

Answer: D ?

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15. Which one of the following is not a type of measure of central

tendency?
A. Mean
B. Range
C. Mode
D. Median

Answer: B ?

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16. Which one exactly describes the relationship between Variance

and standard deviation?
A. Standard deviation is the square of Variance
B. Variance is the square of the standard deviation
C. Variance plus standard deviation is one
D. The square root of standard deviation is variance

Answer: B ?

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17. If the mean of n-observations is 10, then the mean of these n-
observations while we subtract 3 from each observation is?
A. 10
B. 13
C. 7
D. 30

Answer: C ?

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18. Which one of the following is/are true about probability?

A. The probability of every event is between 0 and 1
B. The probability of an impossible event is 0
C. The probability of a sure event is 1
D. All are true

Answer: D ?

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19. The most frequently appeared value of a certain statistical

distribution is?
A. Mean
B. Mode
C. Median
D. Quartiles

Answer: B ?

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20. A single card is drawn at random from a standard deck of 52
playing cards, then what is the probability that the card is a
diamond?
A. ½
B. ¼
C. 1/13
D. 1

Answer: B ?
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21. A bag contains 3 red balls and 4 black balls. A ball is drawn at
random from the bag. What is the probability that the ball drawn
is a black ball?
A. 4/3
B. ¾
C. 4/7
D. 3/7

Answer: C
?
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22. If the probability of winning of Ethiopian football team in a
particular match is 0.86, what is the probability of losing the
match?
A. 0.14
B. 1.86
C. 0
D. 0.68

Answer: A ?
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23. An article is purchased for birr 450 and sold for 500, then the
gain interest is____.
A. 100/9 %
B. 9/100 %
C. 80%
D. 90%

Answer: A ?

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24. A and B enter into partnership with respective capitals of birr.
20,000 and birr. 40,000. At the end of the year the total profit is
birr. 33,000. If A receives birr 15,000 as both his salary and profit,
then what is his salary?
A. Birr 2000
B. Birr 4000
C. Birr 3500
D. Birr 3000

Answer: B ?

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25.

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Based on the following frequency distribution answer
questions from 26 to 31

Class frequency Class CF(LT) 𝑓𝑖 𝑥𝑖

mark

0-4 2 2 2 4
4-8 1 6 3 6
8-12 3 10 6 30
12-16 2 14 8 28
16-20 2 18 10 36

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26. The mean of the above-grouped data is____.
A. 5.2
B. 10.4
C. 14
D. 4.1

ANSWER: B ?
𝑋ത = ෍ 𝑓𝑖 𝑥𝑖
Mode
𝑖
𝑡ℎ
𝑓𝑖 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑖 class
xi is the mid point of the class

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27. The Mode of the above data is_______.
A. 32/3
B. 3/32
C. 7/32
D. 32/5

𝐷1
𝑋෠ = 𝐿𝑚𝑜𝑑 + 𝑤
ANSWER: A ? 𝐷1 + 𝐷2
𝐿𝑚𝑜𝑑 − lower bdry of modal class
w-class width Mode
D1 means fmod-f1
D2 means fmod-f2

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28. The Median of the above data is______.
A. 32/3
B. 3/32
C. 7/32
D. 32/5

𝑤 𝑛
𝑋෠ = 𝐿𝑚𝑒𝑑 + −
ANSWER: A ? 𝑓𝑚𝑒𝑑 2
𝐿𝑚𝑒𝑑 − lower bdry of median class
w-class width
n=σ𝑖 𝑓𝑖
Median
𝑛
Median class(Mc) is the 1st class of cf≥ 2
C means cf of preceeding class of Mc

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29. The first quartile (Q1) is_________.
A. 8
B. 6
C. 4
D. 2

𝑤 𝑛
𝑄1 = 𝐿𝑄1 + −𝐶
ANSWER: B ? 𝑓𝑄1 4
𝐿𝑄1 − lower bdry of 1st quartile class
w-class width Quartile
n=σ𝑖 𝑓𝑖
𝑛
1st quartile class is the 1st class of cf≥ 4
C means cf of preceeding class of 1st quartile

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30. The 5th – Decile is____________
A. 32/3
B. 3/32
C. 7/32
D. 32/5

𝑤 5𝑛
𝐷5 = 𝐿𝐷5 + −𝐶
ANSWER: A ? 𝑓𝐷5 10
𝐿𝑄1 − lower bdry of 5th decile class
w-class width Decile
n=σ𝑖 𝑓𝑖
5𝑛
5th decile class is the 1st class of cf≥ 10
C means cf of preceeding class of 5th decile

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31. The 50th –percentile is__________.
A. 32/3
B. 3/32
C. 7/32
D. 32/5

𝑤 50𝑛
ANSWER: A ? 𝑃50 = 𝐿𝑃50 +
𝑓𝑃50 100
−𝐶
𝐿𝑃50 − lower bdry of 50th percenile class
w-class width Percentile
n=σ𝑖 𝑓𝑖
50𝑛
50th percenile class is the 1st class of cf≥ 100
C means cf of preceeding class of 50th percenile

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32. In how many ways can we arrange four letters A, B, C, D
taking two at a time?
A. 6
B. 12
C. 4
D. 2

ANSWER: B ? 𝑛!
n
rP =
Permutation
(𝑛−)!

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33. In a final year accounting department of 10 students in AAU,
we need to select a graduation committee consisting of 4
members. If all the students have an equal chance of being
selected for a graduation committee, in how many ways can we
select the committee?
A. 120
B. 5/2
C. 210
D. 2/5
n
𝑛!
rC =Combination
(𝑛 − 𝑟)! 𝑟!

ANSWER: C ?

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 Answer Key
1. B 11. E 21. C 31. A
2. D 12. D 22. A 32. B
3. B 13. B 23. A 33. C
4. B 14. D 24. B
5. B 15. B 25. C
6. C 16. B 26. B
7. D 17. C 27. A
8. D 18. D 28. A
9. A 19. B 29. B
10. C 20. B 30. A
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