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STATISTICS

Examples

1. A variable X is expressed as a linear function of

two variables u and v in the form X = au +bv.

Then the mean X

¯
¯¯
of X is
 A. aU
¯
¯¯ ¯
¯
− bV
¯

B. U
¯
¯¯ ¯
¯
+ V
¯

C. bU
¯
¯¯ ¯
¯
+ aV
¯

D. None of these

Answer: D

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2. If the mean of the numbers

27 + x, 31 + x, 89 + x, 107 + x, 156 + x is 82,

then the mean of

130 + x, 126 + x, 68 + x, 50 + x, 1 + x is
 A. 75

B. 157

C. 82

D. 80

Answer: A

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3. If the arithmetic mean of the numbers

x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , ..., x n is x̄, then the arithmetic mean

of the numbers
ax 1 + b, ax 2 + b, ax 3 + b, .... , ax n + b, where a,

b are two constants, would be

A. x̄

B. nax̄ + nb

C. ax̄

D. ax̄ + b

Answer: D

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4. The weighted means of of first n natural

numbers whose weights are equal to the squares

of corresponding numbers is

n + 1
A.
2

3n(n + 1)
B.
2(2n + 1)

(n + 1)(2n + 1)
C.
6

n(n + 1)
D.
2

Answer: B

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5. A student obtain 75 % , 80 % and 85 % in

three subjects if the marks of another subject are

added. Then the average cannot be less than

A. 0.6

B. 0.65

C. 0.8

D. 0.9

Answer: A

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6. If ¯
¯¯ ¯
¯¯
X 1, X 2 are the means of two distributions

such that ¯
¯¯ ¯
¯¯ ¯
¯¯
X 1 < X 2 and X is mean of the

combined distribution , then

A. x̄ < ¯
¯
x¯¯
1

B. x̄ > ¯
¯
x¯¯
2

¯
¯
x¯¯ ¯
¯¯
1 + x2
¯
C. x̄ =
2

D. ¯x¯¯¯1
< x̄ < ¯
¯
x¯¯
2

Answer: D

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7. Mean of 100 items is 49. It was discovered that

three items which should have been 60, 70, 80

were wrongly read as 40, 20, 50 respectively. The

1
correct mean is. (a) 48 (b) 82 (c) 50 (d) 80
2

A. 48

B. 82.5

C. 50

D. 80

Answer: C

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8. The mean weight per student in a group of 7

students is 55 kg. The individual weights of 6 of

them (in kg) are 52, 54, 53, 56 and 54. Find the

weight of the seventh student.

A. 55 kg

B. 60 kg

C. 57 kg

D. 50 kg

Answer: C

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9. If a variable takes the discrete values α − 4,
7 5 1 1
α − , α − , α − 2, α + , α − , α + 5(α > 0)
2 2 2 2

, then the median is

5
A. α −
4

1
B. α −
2

C. α − 2

5
D. α +
4

Answer: A

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10. The median of a set of a set of 9 distinct

observations is 20.5 . If each of the largest 4

observations of the set increased by 2, then the

median of the new set

A. Is increased by 2

B. In decreased by 2

C. Is two times the original median

D. Remains the same as that of the original set

Answer: D

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11. If in a moderately asymmetrical distribution the

mode and the mean of the data are 6λ and9λ ,

respectively, then the median is

A. 8λ

B. 7λ

C. 6λ

D. 5λ

Answer: A

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12. The mean deviation about the mean of the

following distribution is
Size 20 21 22 23 24

Frequency 6 4 5 1 4

A. 1

B. 1.25

C. 1.5

D. 1.75

Answer: B

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13. The mean deviation about the median of the

following distribution is
Marks obtained 10 11 12 14 15

Number of students 2 3 8 3 4

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14. The variance of first n natural number is:

2
n − 1
A.
12

2
n − 1
B.
6

2
n + 1
C.
6

2
n + 1
D.
12
Answer: A

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15. The mean of five observations is 4 and their

variance is 5.2. If three of these observations are 1,2

and 6, then the other two are

A. 2 and 9

B. 3 and 8

C. 4 and 7

D. 5 and 6
Answer: C

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16. The standard deviation of data 6,5,9,13,12,8 and

10 is

52
A. √
7

52
B.
7

C. √6

D. 6

Answer: A
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17. Consider the frequency distribution, where A is

a positive interger :
x A 2A 3A 4A 5A 6A

f 2 1 1 1 1 1

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18. The standard deviation of the following

frequency distribution is
X 2 3 4 5 6 7

f 4 9 16 14 11 6

A. 1.38
 B. 1.42

C. 1.45

D. 1.60

Answer: A

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19. Let a, b, c, d, e, be the observations with m and

standard deviation s. The standard deviation of the

observations a+k, b+k, c+k, d+k, e+k is s (b) ks (c)

s
s + k (d)
k
 A. s

B. ks

C. s+k

s
D.
k

Answer: A

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Exercise 11 1
1. In a class of 100 students there are 70 boys

whose average marks in a subject are 75. If the

average marks of the complete class is 72, then

what is the average of the girls?

A. 73

B. 65

C. 68

D. 74

Answer: B

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2. The median of a set of a set of 9 distinct

observations is 20.5 . If each of the largest 4

observations of the set increased by 2, then the

median of the new set

A. Is increased by 2

B. In decreased by 2

C. Is two times the original median

D. Remains the same as that of the original set

Answer: D

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3. In a frequency distribution , the mean and

median are 21 and 22 respectively , then its mode is

approximately

A. 22.0

B. 20.5

C. 25.5

D. 24.0

Answer: D

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4. 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

A. 40

B. 20

C. 80

D. 60

Answer: C

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5. Compute the median from the following table

A. 36.55

B. 35.55

C. 40.05

D. None of these

Answer: A

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Exercise 11 2

1. In an experiment with 15 observation on x, the

following results were available.

∑x
2
= 2830, ∑ x = 170 One observation 20

was found to be wrong and was replaced by the

correct value 30. Then the corrected variance is

A. 78.00

B. 188.66

C. 177.33

D. 8.33
Answer: A

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2. In a series of 2n observations , half of them equal

a and remaining half equal - a . If the standard

deviation of the observations is 2, then |a| equals

1
A.
n

B. √2

C. 2

√2
D.
n
Answer: C

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3. Suppose a population A has 100 observations

101,102,….,200, and another population B has 100

observations 151,152,…..,250. If VA and VB

represent the variances of the populations

VA
respectively , then is
VB

A. 1

B. 9 / 4

C. 4 / 9
 D. 2 / 3

Answer: A

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4. 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?

A. a=0, b=7

B. a=5, b=2

C. a=1, b =6
 D. a=3, b=4

Answer: D

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5. Let x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 , x5 be the observations with

mean m and standard deviation s. The standard

deviation of the observations

kx 1 , kx 2 , kx 3 , kx 4 , kx 5 is

A. k+s

s
B.
k
 C. ks

D. s

Answer: C

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6. Let 1x 1
, x 2 …. x n be n obervations .Let

wi = lx i + k for i = 1, 2…. n, where l and k

are constants. If the mean of xi is 48 and their

standard deviation is 12 the mean of w 's is 55 and

i

standard deviation of wi is 15 then the value of l

and k should be
 A. l=2.5, k=5

B. l=-1.25, k=5

C. l=2.5, k=-5

D. l=1.25, k=-5

Answer: D

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Exercise Single
1. Coefficients of variation of two distributions are

50 and 60, and their arithmetic means are 30 and

25, respectively. Difference of their standard

deviations is

A. 0

B. 1

C. 1.5

D. 2.5

Answer: A

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2. The mean of a set of numbers is ¯
¯¯
X . If each

number is divided by 3, then the new mean is

A. X
¯
¯¯

B. X
¯
¯¯
+ 3

C. 3X
¯
¯¯

¯
¯¯
X
D.
3

Answer: D

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3. The A.M. of the series 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, .... . , 2 is -
n

n
2 − 1
A.
n

n+1
2 − 1
B.
n + 1

n
2 + 1
C.
n

n
2 − 1
D.
n + 1

Answer: B

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4. The mean of n observation is x̄ , if first term is

increased by 1 second term is increased by 2 and so

no. What will be the new mean?

A. X
¯
¯¯
+ n

n
B. X
¯
¯¯
+
2

n + 1
C. X
¯
¯¯
+
2

D. None of these

Answer: C

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5. In a moderately skewed distribution, the values

of mean and median are 5 and 6, respectively. The

value of mode in such a situation is approximately

equal to

A. 8

B. 11

C. 6

D. None of these

Answer: A

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6. For a normal distribution if the mean is M, mode

is M and median is M , then

0 d

A. M > Md > M0

B. M < Md < M0

C. M = Md M0

D. M = Md = M0

Answer: D

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7. The following data give the distribution of

heights of students :
Height 160 150 152 161 156 154 155
( in cm )

Numbers of 12 8 4 4 3 3 7
students

The median of the distribution is

A. 154

B. 155

C. 160

D. 161

Answer: B

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8. An automobile driver travels from a plain to a hil

station 120 km away at an average speed of 30 km

per hour. He then makes the return trip at an

average speed 25 km per hour. He covers another

120 km on the plain at an average speed of 50 km

per hour. His average speed (in km/hr) over the

entire distance of 360 km will be

30 + 25 + 50
A.
3

a 1 1
+ +
B.
30 25 50

3
C. 1 1 1
+ +
30 25 50
 D. None of these

Answer: C

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9. The mean deviation of the data 3,10,10,4,7,10,5

from the mean is

A. 2

B. 2.57

C. 3

D. 3.75
Answer: B

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10. when tested the lives (in hours) of 5 bulbs were

noted as follows 1357,1090,1666,1494,1623

The mean deviations (in hours ) from their mean is

A. 178

B. 179

C. 220

D. 356
Answer: A

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11. Following are the marks obtained by 9 student

in a mathematics test

50,69,20,33,53,39,40,65,59,

The mean deviation from the median is

A. 9

B. 10.5

C. 12.67

D. 14.76
Answer: C

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12. If the mean of the distribution is 2.6, then the

value of y is
Variate x 1 2 3 4 5

Frequency f of x 4 5 y 1 2

A. 24

B. 13

C. 8

D. 3
Answer: C

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13. If the mean of the set of numbers

x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , ..., x n is x̄, then the mean of the

numbers x i
+ 2i, 1 ≤ i ≤ n is

A. x̄ + 2n

B. x̄ + n + 1

C. x̄ + 2

D. x̄ + n
Answer: B

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14. The harmonic mean of 4,8,16 is

A. 6.4

B. 6.7

C. 6.85

D. 7.8

Answer: C

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15. The AM of the nnumbers x 1 , x 2 ......x n is M. If

x1 is replaced by x then the new AM is

A. M − x n + x'

nM − x n + x'
B.
n

(n − 1)M + x'
C.
n

M − x n + x'
D.
n

Answer: B

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16. The following data give the distribution of

heights of students :
Height 160 150 152 161 156 154 155
( in cm )

Numbers of 12 8 4 4 3 3 7
students

The median of the distribution is

A. 154

B. 155

C. 160

D. 161

Answer: B

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17. For a slightly asymmetric distribution, mean and

medain are 5 and 6, respectively. What is its mode ?

A. 5

B. 6

C. 7

D. 8

Answer: D

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18. Runs scored by a batsman in 10 innings are : 38,

70,48,34,42,55,63,46,54,44

The mean deviation is

A. 8.6

B. 6.4

C. 10.6

D. 9.6

Answer: A

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19. If μ us the mean of distribution , then
{y1 , f1 }

∑ f1 (i1 − μ) is equal to

A. M.D.

B. S.D.

C. 0

D. Relative frequency

Answer: C

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20. The range of the following set of observations

2, 3, 5, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 7, 4, 3 is

A. 11

B. 7

C. 5.5

D. 6

Answer: B

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21. If each observation of a raw data whose

variance is σ is multiplied by h, then the variance of

the new set is

A. σ 2

B. h 2
σ
2

C. hσ 2

D. h + σ
2

Answer: B

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22. If a variable x takes values 0,1,2,..,n with

frequencies proportional to the binomial

coefficients .
n
C0 , .
n
C1 , .
n
C2 , . . , .
n
Cn , then var

(X) is

2
n − 1
A.
12

n
B.
2

n
C.
4

D. None of these

Answer: C

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23. Variance of the data 2,4,6,8,10 is

A. 6

B. 7

C. 8

D. None of these

Answer: C

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24. If the standard deviation of 0, 1, 2, 3...9 is K ,

then the standard deviation of 10, 11, 12, 13....19

is

A. K

B. K+10

C. K + √10

D. 10 K

Answer: A

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25. For a given distribution of marks, the mean is

35.16 and its standard deviation is 19.76. The

coefficient of variation is

35.16
A.
19.76

19.76
B.
35.16

35.16
C. × 100
19.76

19.76
D. × 100
35.16

Answer: D

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26. The mean and S.D of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is

7 35
A. , √
2 2
 B. 3, 3

7
C. , √3
2

35
D. 3,
12

Answer: A

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27. The standard deviation of 25 numbers is 40. If

each of the numbers in increased by 5, then the

new standerd deviation will be -

A. 40
 B. 45

21
C. 40 +
25

D. None of these

Answer: A

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28. Consider any set of observations

x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , . . , x 101 . It is given that

x 1 < x 2 < x 3 < . . Ltx 100 < x 101 , then the mean

deviation of this set of observations about a point

k is minimum when k equals

 A. x 1

B. x 51

x1 + x2 + . . + x 101
C.
101

D. x 50

Answer: B

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29. For (2n+1) observations

x1 , x2 , − x2 , . . , xn , − xn and 0, where all x's are

distinct, let SD and MD denote the standard

deviation and median, respectively. Then which of

the following is always true ?

A. SD < MD

B. SD > MD

C. SD=MD

D. Nothing can be said in general about the

relationship between SD and MD

Answer: B

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30. Let r be the range and
n
1
S
2
= ∑ (x i − x̄)
2
be the SD of a set of
n − 1
i=1

observations x 1
, x2 , . . , xn , then

n
A. S ≤ r√
n − 1

n
B. S = r√
n − 1

n
C. S ≥ r√
n − 1

D. None of these

Answer: A

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31. The standard deviation of variate xi is σ. Then
ax i + b
standard deviation of the variate where
c

a ∣ a ∣
a, b, c are constants is- (a) ( )σ (b) ∣ c ∣
σ (c)
c

(a^2/c^2)sigma` (d) Non of these

a
A. ( )σ
c

a ∣
B. ∣∣ σ
c ∣

2
a
C. ( 2
)σ
c

D. None of these

Answer: B

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32. The standard deviation of the data

6,5,9,13,12,8,10 is

52
A. √
7

52
B.
7

C. √6

D. 6

Answer: A

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33. If the mean of 100 observations is 50 and their

standard deviations is 5,than the sum of all

squares of all the observations is

A. 50000

B. 250000

C. 252500

D. 255000

Answer: C

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34. The standard deviation of first 10 natural

numbers is 8.25 (b) 6.5 (c) 3.87 (d) 2.87

A. 5.5

B. 3.87

C. 2.97

D. 2.87

Answer: D

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35. Consider the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. If 1 is

added to each number, the variance of the

numbers so obtained is 6.5 (b) 2.87 (c) 3.87 (d) 2.87

A. 6.5

B. 2.87

C. 3.87

D. 8.25

Answer: D

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36. Consider the first 10 positve integers .If we

multiply each number by -1 and then add 1 to each

number,the variance of the number so obtained

A. 8.25

B. 6.5

C. 3.87

D. 2.87

Answer: A

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37. If for a sample of size 60, we have the following

information ∑ ξ2 = 18000and ∑ ξ = 960 , then

the variance is 6.63 (b) 16 (c) 22 (d) 44

A. 6.63

B. 16

C. 22

D. 44

Answer: D

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38. The standard deviation of some temperature

data in degree celsius (

∘
C) is 5. If the data were

converted into degree Fahrenhelt (

∘
F) then what

is the variance ?

A. 81

B. 57

C. 36

D. 25

Answer: A

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39. What is the standard deviation of the following

data ?
Measurement 0 − 10 10 − 20 20 − 30 30 − 40

Frequency 1 3 4 2

A. 81

B. 7.6

C. 9

D. 2.26

Answer: C

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Jee Previous Year

1. If the mean deviation of number 1,1+d, 1+2d,….,

1+100d from their mean is 255, then d is equal to

A. 10.0

B. 20.0

C. 10.1

D. 20.2

Answer: C

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2. In a binomial distribution B(n, p = ) , if the
4

probability of at least one success is greater than

9
or equal to , then n is greater than (1)
10

1 1
(2) (3)
4 3 4 3
(log) − (log) (log) + (log)
10 10 10 10

9 4

4
(4) 4
3 3
(log) − (log) (log) − (log)
10 10 10 10

1
A.
log10 4 − log10 3

1
B.
log10 4 + log10 3

9
C.
log10 4 − log10 3

4
D.
log10 4 − log10 3

Answer: A
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3. For two data sets , each of size 5, the variances

are given to be 4 and 5 and the correcponding

means are given to be 2 and 4, respectively . The

variance of the combined data set is

13
A.
2

5
B.
2

11
C.
2

D. 6

Answer: C
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4. If the mean deviation about the median of the

numbers a, 2a,……., 50a is 50, then |a| equals

A. 5

B. 2

C. 3

D. 4

Answer: D

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5. Let x 1
, x2 , . . , xn be n observations, and let x be

their arithmetic mean and σ be the variance

2

Statement 1 : Variance of 2x 1
, 2x 2 , . . , 2x n is4σ
2
.

Statement 2: Arithmetic mean 2x 1 , 2x 2 , . . , 2x n is

4x.

A. Statement 1 is false, statement 2 is true.

B. Statement 1 is true, statement 2 is true,

statement 2 is a correct explanation for

statement 1.

C. Statement 1 is true, statement 2 is true ,

statement 2 is not a correct explanation for

 statement 1.

D. Statement 1 is true, statement 2 is false.

Answer: D

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6. All the students of a class performed poorly 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 ? (1) median (2)

mode (3) variance (4) mean

 A. mean

B. median

C. mode

D. variance

Answer: D

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7. The variance of first 50 even natural numbers is

833 437
(1) (2) 833 (3) 437 (4)
4 4

833
A.
4
 B. 833

C. 437

437
D.
4

Answer: B

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8. The mean of the data set comprising of 16

observations is 16. If one of the observation valued

16 is deleted and three new observations valued 3,

4 and 5 are added to the data, then the mean of

the resultant data, is : (1) 16.8 (2) 16.0 (3) 15.8 (4)

14.0

A. 16.8

B. 16.0

C. 15.8

D. 14.0

Answer: D

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9. If the standard deviation of the numbers 2, 3, a

and 11 is 3.5, then which of the following is true ?

(1) 3a 2
− 26a + 55 = 0 (2) 3a
2
− 32a + 84 = 0 (3)

3a
2
− 34a + 91 = 0 (4) 3a 2
− 23a + 44 = 0

A. 3a 2
− 32a + 84 = 0

B. 3a 2
− 34a + 91 = 0

C. 3a 2
− 23a + 44 = 0

D. 3a 2
− 26a + 55 = 0

Answer: A

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 9 9

10. If ∑ (x i − 5) = 9 and ∑ (x i − 5)
2
,
= 45

i=1 i=1

then the standard deviation of the 9 items

x 1 , x 2 , ......, x 9 is

A. 3

B. 9

C. 4

D. 2

Answer: D

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