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DPP-46
Measures of Central Tendency

1. A batsman is his 17th innings makes a score of 85 and thereby increases his average by 3.
What is his average after 17th innings?
(a) Rs. 37 (b) Rs. 35
(c) Rs. 36 (d) None of these

2. A person travels from A to B at the rate of 20 km/h and from B to A at the rate of 30
km/hr. What is the average rate for whole journey?
(a) 20 km./hr. (b) 24 km./hr.
(c) 30 km./hr. (d) None of these

3. A person divides his journey into three equal parts and decides to travel on three parts at
the speeds of 40, 30 and 15 km/hr respectively. Find his average speed during the whole
journey.
(a) 30 km./hr. (b) 24 km./hr.
(c) 35 km./hr. (d) None of these

4. A person covers 12km at 3 km/hr, 18 km at 9 km/hr and 24 km at 4 km/hr. Find the

average speed in covering the whole distance.
(a) 4.5 km./hr. (b) 5 km./hr.
(c) 10 km./hr. (d) None of these

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5. A person runs the first 5 𝑚 of the distance at 2 km/hr, the next one half at 3 km/hr and the
remaining distance at 1 km/hr. Find his average speed.
15 30
(a) 17km./hr. (b) 17km./hr.
17
(c) 30km./hr. (d) None of these

6. The mean of 100 observations is 50. If one of the observations which was 50 is replaced
by 50, the resulting mean will be
(a) 40 (b) 49.90
(c) 50 (d) None of these

7. The combined mean of three groups is 12 and the combined mean of first two groups is
3. If the first, second and third groups have 2, 3 and 5 items respectively, then the mean
of third group is
(a) 10 (b) 21
(c) 12 (d) 13

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8. A cricketer scored 180 runs in the first test and 258 runs in the second. How many runs
should be score in the third test so that his average score is three tests would be 230 runs.
(a) 219 (b) 242
(c) 334 (d) None of these

9. The average age of 24 students and the class teacher is 16 years. If the class teacher age
is excluded, the average reduces by 1 year. What is the age of the class teacher?
(a) 50 years (b) 40 years
(c) 60 years (d) None of these

10. Find the rank of the Median in the given series 3, 2, 4, 6, 5, 7

(a) 3.5 (b) 4
(c) 4.5 (d) None of these

11. For individual series, the rank of the median is

𝑁+1𝑡ℎ 𝑁+1𝑡ℎ
(a) term (b) term
4 4
3(𝑛+1)𝑡ℎ
(c) term (d) None of these
2

Answer Sheet
1 C 2 A 3 B 4 B 5 A
6 B 7 B 8 D 9 B 10 A
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DPP-47
Measures of Central Tendency

1. Mode is
(a) Least frequent value (b) Middle most value
(c) Most frequent value (d) None of these

2. If the arithmetic mean of two numbers is 10 and their geometric mean is 8, the numbers
are
(a) 20.5 (b) 16.4
(c) 15.5 (d) 12.8

3. In a frequency distribution the mid value of a class is 15 and the class interval length is 4.
The lower limit of the class is
(a) 10 (b) 12
(c) 13 (d) 14

4. Let L be the lower class boundary of a class in a frequency distribution and m be the mid
point of the class. Which one of the following is the higher class boundary of the class?
𝑚+2 𝑚+𝐿
(a) m+ (b) L+
2 2
(c) 2m-L (d) m-2L

5. The mean of the values of 1, 2, 3 …………. n with respective frequencies x, 2x, 3x

……….. nx is
𝑛+1 𝑛
(a) (b) 2
2
2𝑛+1 2𝑛+1
(c) (d)
3 6

6. The mean of four observations is 10 and when a constant a is added to each observation,
the mean becomes 13. The value of a is
(a) 2 (b) -3
(c) 3 (d) None of these

7. The mean weight of 15 persons is 110 kg. The mean weight of 5 of them is 100 and
another 5 is 125 kgs. What is the mean weight of the remainder?
(a) 110 kgs. (b) 105 kgs.
(c) 100 kgs. (d) None of these

8. The average of marks obtained by 120 students in a certain examination is 135. If the
average marks of passed students is 39 and that of the failed students is 15; what is the
number of students who passed in the examination?
(a) 100 (b) 150
(c) 200 (d) None of these

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9. The average of 17 numbers is 45. The average of first 9 of these numbers is 51 and the last
9 of these numbers is 36. Find the 9th number?
(a) 5 (b) 14
(c) 18 (d) None of these

10. The average of 11 results is 30, that of the first five is 25 and that of the last five is 28.
Find the value of the 6th number?
(a) 60 (b) 65
(c) 75 (d) None of these

Answer Sheet

1 C 2 C 3 C 4 A 5 C
6 C 7 B 8 A 9 A 10 B

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DPP-48
Measures of Central Tendency

1. The average weight of 8 person increases by 1.5 kg, if a person weighting 65 kg replaced
by a new person, what would be the weight of the new person?
(a) 76 kg (b) 50 kg
(c) 77 kg (d) None of these

2. The average of n numbers is x. If each of the numbers is multiplied by (n+1); then the
average of new set of numbers is
𝑥
(a) x (b) 𝑛+1
(c) (n+1)x (d) None of these

3. The most reliable central value is

(a) Mean (b) Median
(c) Mode (d) (a) and (b) both

4. In which Central value arranging is required.

(a) Mean (b) G.M.
(c) Mode (d) H.M.

5. The relation between two variable is 2x + 3y – 10 = 0. If mean of y is 50, then mean of x is

(a) 20 (b) 30
(c) 25 (d) None of these

6. In a coconut grove, (x+2) trees yield 60 nuts per year, x trees yield 120 nuts per yar and
(x-2) trees yield 180 nuts per year. If the average yield per year per tree be 100, then the
value of x is –
(a) 4 (b) 6
(c) 8 (d) 2

7. Find the average of first 25 multiple of 5.

(a) 65 (b) 60
(c) 75 (d) None of these

8. If a, b, c, d, e are five consecutive odd integers, then their average is

𝑎𝑏𝑐𝑑𝑒
(a) a + 5 (b) 5
(c) 5(a+b+c+de) (d) a+4

9. The sum of deviations of the given values from their ………. Is always 0.
(a) Arithmetic Mean (b) G.M.
(c) H.M. (d) Median

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10. The sum of squares of the deviations of the given values from their ………….. is
minimum.
(a) Arithmetic Mean (b) Median
(c) Mode (d) None of these

11. Which is greatly affected by the extreme value?

(a) Arithmetic Mean (b) Median
(c) Mode (d) None of these

12. Which is not amenable to further algebraic treatment?

(a) Arithmetic Mean (b) Median
(c) Mode (d) Both (b) and (c)

Answer Sheet

1 C 2 C 3 A 4 5 D
6 A 7 A 8 D 9 A 10 A
11 A 12 D

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DPP-49
Measures of Dispersion

1. The range of 10 observation is 20. If each item is increased by 15, then the range of
new series is
(a) 20 (b) 35
(c) 5 (d) None of these
2. The range of 10 observation is 20. If each item is divided by -2, then the range of new
series is
(a) -10 (b) 10
(c) 20 (d) None of these
3. In proofed frequency distribution, if the class interval Gap is unequal then which
dispersion is more appropriate?
(a) 9 (b) 6
(c) 3 (d) None of these
4. The variance of 10 observation is 4, then their Standard Deviation is +2 or -2. This is
(a) True (b) False
(c) Either (a) (b) (d) None of these
5. Which measure of dispersion has some desirable mathematical properties?
(a) Standard Deviation (b) Mean Deviation
(c) Q. D. (d) None of these
6. The sum of deviations of certain number of items measured from 2.5 to 50 and the
sum of deviations of the same series measured from 3.5 is -50. Find the number of
observations and their mean?
(a) 100, 3 (b) 200, 6

(c) 100, 4 (d) None of these

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1 A 2 B 3 A 4 B 5 B
6 A

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DPP-50
Measures of Dispersion

1. If the values of all observation are equal then the Standard Deviation of the given
observations is
(a) 0% (b) 2%

(c) 1% (d) None of these

2. The Standard Deviation of a set of 50 items is 10. Find the Standard Deviation if
every item is increased by 5.
(a) 15% (b) 5%

(c) 10% (d) None of these

3. Find the coefficient of variation if the sum of squared deviations takes from mean 40
of 10 observation is 360.
(a) 15% (b) 20%

(c) 40% (d) None of these

4. If the coefficient of mean deviation is 0.44 and the mean deviation from mean is 5.77;
then the mean is –
(a) 14 (b) 13.11

(c) 16 (d) None of these

5. The Standard Deviation of two values is equal to half their difference. This statement
is
(a) True (b) False

(c) cannot say (d) None of these

6. If the Standard Deviation of 10 observations is 4 and if each item is divided by – 2

then Standard Deviation of new series is
(a) Q.D (b) Range
(c) Mean deviation (d) Standard Deviation

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7. The relation between two variables is 2x+3x+12 = 0. If mean deviation of y is 6 then

mean deviation of x is
(a) 9 (b) 6
(c) 3 (d) None of these

Answer Sheet

1 A 2 C 3 A 4 B 5 A
6 A 7 A

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DPP-51
Correlation Analysis

1. In case of “Insurance Companies” profits and the number of claims they have to pay
there is __________ correlation:
(a) Positive (b) Negative
(c) No correlation (d) None of the above

2. The coefficient of correlation between two variables x and y is 0.28. Their covariance
is 7.6. If the variance of x is 9, then the standard deviation of y is:
(a) 8.048 (b) 9.048
(c) 10.048 (d) 11.048

3. Find the coefficient of correlation between the following set of observation.

X: 69 85
Y: 70 87
(a) 1 (b) -1
(c) 0 (d) None of these

4. Find the correlation coefficient between the following set of observation.

X: 102 109
Y: 50 48
(a) 1 (b) -1
(c) 0 (d) None of these

5. For the bivariate data [(x, y)] = [(20,5), (21,4), (22,3)], the correlation coefficient
between x and y is
(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) -1 (d) 0.5

6. The value of Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient of a certain number of

2
observations was to be 3. The sum of the squares of differences between the
corresponding ranks was 55. Find the number of Pairs.
(a) 10 (b) 11
(c) 12 (d) None of these

7. If covariance (x, y) < 0; then the relation between two variable is

(a) Positive (b) Negative
(c) (a) or (b) (d) None of these

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8. In co – variance method the sum of difference of rank is

(a) 1 (b) -1
(c) 0 (d) Cannot say

9. In a beauty contest there were 10 competitors. Rank of these candidates are assigned
by two judges A and B. The sum of squares of differences of ranks is 44. The value of
rank correlation is:
(a) 0.70 (b) 0.73
(c) 0.80 (d) 0.60

10. The correlation coefficient of 3x and -2y is the same as the correlation coefficient of
x and y This statement is
(a) True (b) False
(c) Cannot say (d) None of these

11. The co-variance between the two variables is

(a) always positive
(b) always negative
(c) always 0
(d) Either positive or negative or Zero

Answer Sheet

1 B 2 B 3 A 4 B 5 C
6 A 7 B 8 B 9 B 10 B
11 D

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DPP-52
Correlation Analysis

1. The coefficient of correlation between x and y is 0.6. If x and y values are multiplied
by -1, then the coefficient of correlation will be:
(a) 0.6 (b) -0.6
1
(c) 0.6 (d) 1 - 0.6

2. The Coefficient of correlation between x and y series is -0.38. The linear relation
between x & u and y & v are 3x + 5v = 3 and -8x - 7v = 44, what is the coefficient of
correlation between u & v?
(a) 0.38 (b) -0.38
(c) 0.40 (d) None of the above.

3. If the relation between two random variables x and y is 2x + 3y = 4, then the correlation
coefficient between them is
(a) -2/3 (b) 1
(c) -1 (d) None of these

4. The correlation between two variables x and y is found to be 0.4. What is the correlation
between 2x and (-y)?
(a) 0.4 (b) -0.4
(c) 0.6 (d) None of these

Answer Sheet

1 A 2 B 3 A 4 B

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DPP-53
Regression Analysis

1. The correlation coefficient r is the ……………… of the two regression coefficients.

(a) G.M. (b) H.M.
(c) Arithmetic Mean (d) None of these

2. If r = 0 then
(a) There is a perfect correlation between x & y.
(b) x and y are not correlated.
(c) There is a positive correlation between x & y
(d) Do not exist.

3. When the correlation coefficient r = ± 1, then the two repression lines are
(a) Perpendicular to each other (b) Coincide
(c) Parallel to each other (d) Do not exist

4. If Y is dependent variable and X is Independent variable and x the S.D of X and Y are 5
and 8 respectively and Co- efficient of co-relation between X and Y is 0.8. Find the
Regression coefficient of Y on X.
(a) 0.78 (b) 1.28
(c) 6.8 (d) 0.32

5. If mean of x and y variables is 20 and 40 respectively and the regression coefficient of

y on x is 1.608, then the regression line of y on x is
(a) y = 1.608x + 7.84
(b) y = 1.5x + 4.84
(c) y = 1.608x + 4.84
(d) y = 1.56x + 7.84

6. Out of following which is correct?

σ σy
(a) byx = r σx (b) byx = r σ
y x
π.Σxy π.Σxy
(c) byx = (d) byx =
σx σy

7. The regression equation x and y is 3x + 2y = 100, the value of b

2 100
(a) - 3 (b) 3
3 2
(c) 2 (d) 3

8. If two regression lines are x + y = 1 and x - y = 1 then mean values of x and y will be:
(a) 0 and 1 (b) 1 and 1
(c) 1 and 0 (d) -1 and -1

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1 B 2 B 3 B 4 B 5 A
6 B 7 A 8 C

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DPP-54
Regression Analysis

1. The two lines of regression become identical when

(a) r = 1 (b) r = - 1
(c) r = 0 (d) (a) or (b)

2. If one of regression coefficient is __________ unity, the other must be unity.

(a) more than, more then
(b) Less than, Less then
(c) more than, less than
(d) Positive, Negative

3. For certain x and y series which are correlated, the two lines of regression are
5x - 6y + 9 = 0
15x - 8y - 130 = 0
The correlation coefficient is
(a) 4/5 (b) 3/4
(c) 2/3 (d) ½

4. If ‘r’ be the Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation in a bivariate distribution then

the two regression lines are at right angle if:
(a) r = ± 1
(b) r = 0
(c) r = ± any finite value whose numerical value is less than 1
(d) None of these

5. If the regression equations are 8x-3y+50 = 0 and 14x-7y - 60 = 0 and standard

deviation of y is 1. The coefficient of correlation is = __________
(a) 2 (b) 1
(c) 0.87 (d) -0.87

6. If y = 18x + 5 is the regression line of y on x value of bxy is

(a) 5/18 (b) 18
(c) 5 (d) 1/18

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1 D 2 C 3 C 4 B 5 C
6 D

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