• A frequency curve for which flatness of the top is more than the mesokurtic is called

Platykurtic. For such types of curves, 2  3, and  2  0 .

Further Reading:
1. M. Ray & Har Swarup Sharma, “Mathematical Statistics”, Ram Prasad Publication,
Agra-3
Exercise
Check your progress:

1. The arithmetic mean of an AP and the mean of first and last term of an AP
(a) equal
(b) unequal
(c) square of each other
(d) none of the above

2. The mean height of 25 male workers in a factory is 61 cm and the mean height of 35
female workers in the same factory is 58 cm. the combined mean height of 60
workers in the factory is
(a) 59.25
(b) 59.5
(c) 59.75
(d) 58.75

3. The average of the square of the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4,……., n is

1
(a) n ( n + 1)
2
1
(b) n ( 2n + 1 )
6
1
(c) ( n + 1)(2n + 1)
6
1
(d) n ( n + 1)
6

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4. Mean of 100 items is 49. It was discovered that three items which should have been
60, 70 and 80 were wrongly read as 40, 20 and 50, respectively. The correct mean is
(a) 48
(b) 89
(c) 50
(d) 80

5. The AM of n numbers of a series is x . If the sum of first (n -1) terms is k, then the
nth number is

(a) x −k
(b) nx − k
(c) x − nk
(d) nx − nk

6. If the average of the numbers 148, 146, 144, 142, ….. in AP, be 125, then the total
numbers in the series will be
(a) 18
(b) 24
(c) 30
(d) 48

7. The mean of the values of 1, 2, 3, ……, n with respectively frequencies x, 2x, 3x, …..,
nx is

n
(a)
2
1
(b) (2n + 1)
3
1
(c) (2n + 1)
6
3n
(d)
2

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8. The mean of n items is x . If the first term is increased by 1, second by 2 and so on,
then the new mean is

(a) x+n
n
(b) x+
2
n +1
(c) x+
2
(d) None of these

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9. If the mean of n observations 12 ,22 ,32 ,.....,n2 is , then n is equal to
11
(a) 11
(b) 12
(c) 23
(d) 22

10. The AM of the series 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ……, 2n is

2n − 1
(a)
n
2n+1 − 1
(b)
n+1
2n + 1
(c)
n
2n − 1
(d)
n +1

11. In a class of 50 students, 10 have failed and their average marks are 28. The total
marks obtained by the entire class are 2800. The average marks of those who have
passed, are
(a) 43
(b) 53
(c) 63
(d) 70

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12. The mean of 30 given numbers, when it is given that the mean of 10 of them is 12
and the mean of the remaining 20 is 9, is equal to
(a) 11
(b) 10
(c) 9
(d) 5

13. The mean of a set of observations is x . If each observation is divided by,   0

and then is increased by 10, then the mean of the new set is

x
(a)

x + 10
(b)

x + 10
(c)

(d)  x + 10

14. If the sum of deviations of a number of observations about 3 is 40. Then, mean of
the observation is
(a) 7
(b) 10
(c) 11
(d) None of these

15. Geometric mean of first group of 5 observations is 8. And that of second group of 4

observations is 128 2 .
(a) 64

(b) 32 2
(c) 32
(d) None of these

16. Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency?

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 (a) Mean
(b) Median
(c) Mean-deviation
(d) Mode

17. For dealing with qualitative data the best average is

(a) AM
(b) GM
(c) Median
(d) Mode

18. Coefficient of skewness for the values

Median = 18.8, Q1 = 14.6, Q3 = 252 is
(a) 0.2
(b) 0.5
(c) 0.7
(d) None of these

19. If the sum of 11 consecutive natural numbers is 2761, then the middle number is
(a 249
(b) 250
(c) 251
(d) 252

20. If the mode of the data is 18 and the mean is 24, then median is
(a) 18
(b) 24
(c) 22
(d) 21

21. If in a moderately asymmetrical distribution mode and mean of the data are 6M and
9M respectively, then median is
(a) 8M
(b) 7M
(c) 6M

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 (d) 5M

22. If the median of 21 observations is 40 and if the observations greater than the
median are increased by 5, then the median of the new data will be
(a) 40
(b) 45

50
(c) 4+
21
50
(d) 45 −
21

23. 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) 16
(d) None of these

24. Consider the following statements

I. The values of median and mode can be determined graphically.
II. Mean, median and mode have the same unit.
III. Range is the best measure of dispersion.
Which of these is/are correct?
(a) Only I
(b) Only II
(c) Both II and III
(d) None of these

25. The quartile deviation of daily wages (in rupees) of 7 persons given below 12, 7, 15,
10, 17, 19 and 25 is
(a) 14.5
(b) 5
(c) 9
(d) 4.5

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26. If two variables x and y are such that 2y + 5 = 3x and quartile deviation(QD) of x
is 8, then QD of y is
(a) 2
(b) 8
(c) 4
(d) None of these

27. For a series the value of mean deviation is 15, the most likely value of its quartile
deviation is
(a) 12.5
(b) 11.6
(c) 13
(d) 9.7

28. 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

29. The SD of 15 items is 6 and if each item is 6 and if each item is decreases by 1, then
standard deviation will be
(a) 5
(b) 7
(c) 8
(d) 6

aX + b
30. If SD of X is S, then SD of the variable = , where a, b and c are constants,
c
is

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 c
(a) 
a
a
(b) 
c
b
(c) 
c
c2
(d) 
a2

31. If x is the arithmetic mean of n independent variates x1, x2 , x3 ,......, xn each of

the standard deviation  , then variance is

2
(a)
n
n 2
(b)
2

(c)
( n + 1) 2
3
(d) None of these

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32. If the variance of 1,2,3,4,.......,10 is , then the standard deviation of 3, 6, 9,
12
12, 30 is

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(a)
4
3
(b) 33
2
3
(c) 99
2
99
(d)
12

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33. The mean and variance of n values of a variable x are 0 and  2 , respectively. If the
variable y = x 2 , then mean of y is
(a) 
(b) 2
(c) 1
(d) None of these

34. Two samples of sizes 100 and 150 have means 45 and 55 and standard deviation 7
and 12, respectively. Find the mean and standard deviation of the combined sample
(a) 11, 30
(b) 11, 45
(c) 11, 40
(d) 11, 50

35. If the mean of five observations x, x + 2, x + 4, x + 6 and x + 8 is 11, then the

mean of last three observations is
(a) 13
(b) 15
(c) 17
(d) None of these

36. If for a distribution the difference of first quartile and median is greater than
difference of median and third quartile then distribution is classified as
(a) absolute open ended
(b) positively skewed
(c) negatively skewed
(d) not skewed at all

37. if the first quartile and third quartile are as 32 and 35 respectively with the median
of 20 then distribution is skewed to
(a) lower tail
(b) upper tail
(c) close end tail

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38. the measurement techniques used to measure the extent of skewness in data set
values are called
(a) measure of distribution width
(b) measure of median tail
(c) measure of tail distribution
(d) measure of skewness

39. The statistical measure such as average deviation, standard deviation and mean are
classified as part of
(a) deciles system
(b) moment system
(c) percentile system
(d) quartile system

40. The method of calculating skewness which is based on the positions of quartiles and
median in a distribution is called
(a) Gary’s coefficient of skewness
(b) Sharma’s coefficient of skewness
(c) Bowley’s coefficient of skewness
(d) Jack Karl’s coefficient of skewness

41. The median of a moderately skewed distribution is 8, third quartile is 12, first
quartile is 8 and inter-quartile range is 4 then relative coefficient of skewness is
(a) 8
(b) 1
(c) 9
(d) 11

42. For the Karl Pearson’s skewness coefficient, the value of skewness must be in limits
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 4

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43. The distribution is considered leptokurtic if

(a) 3 is less than three

(b) 2 is greater than two

(c) 3 is greater than three

(d) 2 is greater than three

44. The distribution is considered platykurtic if

(a) 3 is less than three

(b) 2 is greater than two

(c) 3 is greater than three

(d) 2 is greater than three

45. In kurtosis, the frequency curve that has flatten top normal curve of bell shaped
distribution is classified as
(a) Leptokurtic
(b) Platykurtic
(c) Mega curve
(d) Mesokurtic

Answer Keys (Exercise):

1-a
2-a
3-b
4-c
5-b
6-b
7-b
8-c

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9-a
10-b
11-c
12-b
13-c
14-a
15-c
16-c
17-c
18-a
19-c
20-c
21-a
22-a
23-a
24-a
25-d
26-d
27-a
28-a
29-d
30-b
31-a
32-b
33-b
34-c
35-a
36-b
37-a
38-d
39-b
40-c
41-b
42-a
43-d

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45-b

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