Statistics

1. Listed below are the temperatures in °c for 10 days.

-6, -8,0,3,2, 0, 1,5,4,4
What is the range of the data?
(a)8 (b)13°C (c)10° (d)12°(
2. Upper limit of class interval 75-85 is
(a) 10 (b)-10 (c) 75 (d) 85
3. Size of the class 150 -175 is?
(a) 150 (b) 175 (c) 25 (d) -25
4. Consider the following distribution.
More than or equal to O 63
More than or equal to 1O 58
More than or equal to 20 55
More than or equal to 30 51
More than or equal to 40 48
More than or equal to 50 42
The frequency of the class 30 - 40 is
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 41 (d) 51
5. What is the class-mark of class 25 - 35?
(a) 25 (b) 30 (c) 35 (d) 60
6. The average (arithmetic mean) of a set of seven
numbers is 8. When an eighth number is added to the
set, the average of the eight numbers is still 8. What
number was added to the set?
(a)6 (b)7 (c)8 (d)9
7. The sum of first n natural numbers is given by the
expression (2n 2 + 3n). The mean of the given numbers Is
(a)(.!+ 3) (b) 2 + ! (c) 2 + 3n (d) 2n + 3
n n

8. In a school marks obtained by 1O students in

mathematics test as given below-
18, 12, 36,24,40, 60,23,09, 70,62
Find Range of this data?
(a) 23 (b) 61 (c) 9 (d) 70
9. The marks (out of 10) obtained by 28 students In a
Mathematics test is listed below.
8, 1, 2, 6, 5, 5, 5, 0, 1, 9, 7, 8, 0, 5, 8, 3, 0, 8, 10, 10, 3, 4,8,
7,8,9,2, 0
The number of students who scored marks less than 4
9. The marks (out of 10) obtained by 28 students in a
Mathematics test is listed below.
8, 1,2, 6,5,5,5,0, 1, 9, 7,8,0,5,8,3,0,8, 10, 10, 3,4,8,
7, 8, 9,2,0
The number of students who scored marks less than 4
is?
(a) 10 (b) 12 (C) 13 (d) 15
10. The range of the data 30, 61, 55, 56, 60, 20, 26, 46,
28, 56 is?
(a) 26 (b) 30 (C) 41 (d) 61
11 . Study the number series given and answer the
questions
Series = 6, 4, 1, 2, 2, 8, 7, 4, 2, 1, 5, 3, 8, 6, 2, 1, 7, 1, 4, 3,
1, 2, 8, 6.
Which numbers have equal frequencies?
(a) 4, 6, 8 (b) 1, 4, 6 (c) 1, 2, 3 (d) 4, 5, 7
12. If there are N individual observations x,, X2, ••••x,,,
Arithmetic mean =?
(a) j : X i +Xz +X3+ •··+ X n
N
(b) X = x 1 x x 2 x.x 3 x .... XXn
N
(c) Xl:x1
N
(d) both (b) or (c)
13. The average marks of three batches of students
having 70, 50 and 30 students respectively are 50, 55
and 45. Find the average marks of all the 150 students,
taken together.
(a) 50.67 (b) 40.67 (c) 50.60(d) 40.60
14. The bar graph shows the number of traffic
accidents in a country from year 2000 to 2014 . What is
the difference between accidents in the year 2001 and
2004.
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15. Consider the following observat ion relating to
marks obtained by 10 students in CS Foundati on Exam-
201 , 202, 207,222, 276, 201,246, 212, 285,312.
Arithmeti c mean is?
(a) 206 (bl 236.3 (c) 217.2 (d) 216.1
16. The mean is
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(a) the statistica l or arithmeti c average
(b)the middlem ost score
(c) the most frequentl y occurring score
(d) the best represen tation for every set of data
17. The mean of 48, 27, 36, 24, x, and 2x is 37.x =
(a) 13 i (b) 16 i (c) 29 (d) 40

18. The difference in the sales of cellular phones for the

years 1997 and 1999 is?
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19. The average of six numbers is 4. If the average of
two of those numbers is 2, what is the average of the
other four numbers?
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 8
21. For a collection of 11 items, sum of all items is 132,
then the arithmetic mean is?
(a) 11 (bl 12 (c) 13 (d) 14
22. The average of five numbers is 40 and the average
of another six numbers is 50. The average of all
numbers taken together is _ __
(a) 44.44 (b) 45.00 (cl 45.45 (d) 90.00
23. 70 number of student's heights are measured in cm
as shown in the histogram.

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How many students have heights less than 220 cm?

(a) 40 (b) 62 (c) 48 (d) 56
24. Convert the following data into grouped frequency
table. Find the total frequency?
2,3,4, 12, 11,2,4,3, 15, 15, 16,2,3,20,20
(a) 10 (b)15 (c) 20 (d) 25
25. The number of ducks at each pond in the Mumbai
city is shown in the histogram.
Ducks per pond
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Numbe.r of ducks
In which class interval number of ducks is equal to 20
ponds?
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 (a) 0-19 and 80-99 (b) 19-39 and 80-99
(c) 20-39 and 80-99 (d) 40-59 and 100-119
26. 70 number of student's height are measured in cm
as shown in the histogram. How many students have
heights more than 180 cm?

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27. If the upper and the lower limits of a class interval
are 16 and 1O, the class-interval is?
(a)10-16 (b)16-10
(c) 10 - 16 or 16 - 1O (d) None of these
28. Which class-interval has the minimum frequency?
(a) 20-30 (b) 40-50 (c) 50-60 (d) 10-20
29. Answer the question based on the below frequency
table?
Ages No. of students
Below4 0
Below 7 85
Below 10 140
Below 13 243
Below 16 300

State the number of students in the age group 10 - 13.

(a)85 (b)113 (c)103 (d)145
30. The class mark of the class 90 -120 is
(a)90 (b)105 (c)115 (d)120
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maximum number of workers?
(a) 81 O {b) 820 (c) 830 (d) 840
32. In the class intervals 1O - 20, 20 -30, the number 20
is included in?
(a) 10- 20 (b) 20 - 30
(c) Both the intervals (d) None of these intervals
33. What is the sum of the frequencies of the intervals
40-50 and 50-60?

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(a) 24 (b) 30 (c) 32 (d) 34

35. If the class intervals in a frequency distribution are
(72 - 73.9), (74 - 75.9), (76 - 77.9), (78 -79.9) etc., then
the mid-point of the class (74 - 75.9) is
(a) 74.50 (b) 74.90 (c) 74.95 (d) 75.00
36. The blood groups of 30 students are recorded as
follows.
A, B, 0, A, AB, 0, A, 0, B, A, 0, B, A, AB, B, A, AB, B, A, A,
0,A, AB,B,A,0,B,A,B,A
What are the frequency distribution for the data A and
AB?
(a)10,2 (b)11,2 (c)12,4 (d)13,5
37. The given bar graph shows the number of matches
played by different teams. Read the bar graph and
answer the questions
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play?
(a) 34 (b) 22 (c) 38 (d) 40

38. Let m be the mid-point and 1 be the upper class

limit of a class in a continuous frequency distribution.
The lower class limit of the class is?
(a) 2m + I (b) 2m - I (c) m + I (d) m + 21
39. To draw a histogram to represent the following
frequency distribution.
Class 5-10 10 -15 15 • 25 25-45 45- 75
Interval
Frequency 6 12 10 8 15

The adjusted frequency for the class 25 - 45 is?

(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 5 (d) 6
40. If the mean of the observations.
x, x + 3, x + 5, x + 7, x + 10 is 9, the mean of the last
three observations is?
(a)10; (b)10; (c)11i (d)11;
41 . The histogram shows the number of music
directors and the number of songs they complete in a
year.
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(a) 6 {b) 8 (c) 15 (d) 20
42. Find the arithmetic mean of numbers from 1 to 9.
(a) 3 {b) 5 (c) 8 (d) 9
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43. The mean of -3,4
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44. The mean weight of 9 students is 25 kg. If one more
student is joined in the group the mean is unaltered,
then the weight of the 10th student is
(a) 25 kg (b) 24 kg (c) 26 kg (d) 23 kg
45. The sum of 15 observations is 434+x. If the mean of
the data is x, then find x.
(a) 25 (b) 27 (c) 31 (d) 33
46. The librarian at the public library counted the
number of books on each shelf. The highest number of
books contained by any of the self is?
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47. Mean of marks obtained by 1O students is 30.
Marks obtained are 25, 30, 21, 55, 47, 10, 15, x, 45, 35.
Find the value of x.
(a) 25 (b) 37 (c) 69 (d) 17
48. If the Arithmet ic mean of 8, 6, 4, x, 3, 6, 0 is 4, then
the value of x =?
(a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 1
49. This shows the distribut ion of students and the
number of hours they work.
0-9 40
10-19 50
20-29 70
30-39 40
The relative frequency of students working 19 hours or
less is?
(a) 40 (b) 50 (C) 90 (d) 100
50. Mean of 9 observations was founded to be 35.
Later on, it was detected that an observation 81 was
misread as 18, then the correct mean of the
observations is?
(a) 40 (b) 41 (C) 42 (d) 43
51. The mean age of 25 students in a class is 12. If the
teacher's age is included, the mean age increases by 1.
Then teacher's age (in years) is?
(a) 24 (b) 30 (c) 38 (d) 48
52. The mean of a, b, c, d and e is 28. If the mean of a, c
and e is 24, what is the mean of band d?
(a) 31 (b) 32 (c) 33 (d) 34
53.
12 24 36 48 60 72
24 48 60 72 so 30
so 45 so 75 so 34

The number of students in a quiz competit ion scores

are in the table. How many students scored SO marks?
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 8
54. How many students got more than 70 marks?
54. How many students got more than 70 marks?
Frequency polygon
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(a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 18 (d) 47

55. In a bar chart
(a) rectangles are of equal lengths
(b) width of rectangles is fixed
(c) rectangles are drawn with unequal shapes between
them
(d) width of rectangles carry important meaning
56. The frequency table of the weights (in kilograms) of
the student is given alongside.
Answer the question with reference to the given data.
Class intervals (wt. in kg) Frequency (No. of student)
40 -45 8
45 -50 15
50 - 55 14
55-60 9
60-65 3

What is the upper and lower limit of t he class 55 - 60?

(a)55,60 (b)55, 55 (c)60,60 (d)60, 55
57. The following frequency distribution gives the
monthly consumption of electricity of 68 consumers of
a locality. In which class interval, the number of
consumers are the highest?
monthly consumption in No. of consumers
units
65-85 4
85 -105 5
105- 125 13
125 - 145 20
 monthly consumption in No. of consumers
units
65-85 4
85-105 5
105-125 13
125-145 20
145-165 14
165 - 185 8
185-205 4

(a) 105-125 (b) 125-145 (c) 145-165 (d) 185-205

58. The ratio of sum of observations and total number
of observations is called?
(a) Mean (b) Median
(c) Mode (d) Central tendency
59. The median of the data- 155 160 145 149 1SO 147
152 144 148 is?
(a) 149 (b) 150 (c) 147 (d) 144
60. The median of the data= 4, 6, 8, 9, 11 is?
(a)6 (b)8 (c)9 (d)11
61. The range of the data.
25, 18,20,22, 16,6, 17, 15, 12,30,32, 10, 19,8, 11,20is
(a)10 (b)15 (c)18 (d)26

62. The width of each of five continuous classes in a

frequency distribution is 5 and the lower class-limit of
the lowest class is 10. The upper class-limit of the
highest class is?
(a) 15 (b) 25 (c) 35 (d) 40
63. How many class-intervals have equal frequency?

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64. The mean of five numbers is 30. If one number is
excluded, their mean becomes 28. The excluded
number is?
(a) 28 (b) 30 (C) 35 (d) 38
65. If each observation of the data is increased by 5,
then their mean
(a) remains the same
(b) becomes 5 times the origina l mean
(c) is decreased by 5
(d) is increased by 5

66. The mean of 25 observations is 36. Out of these

observations if the mean of first 13 observations is 32
and that of the last 13 observations is 40, the 13th
observation is?
(a) 23 (b) 36 (c) 38 (d) 40
67. The median of the data
78,56,22, 34,45,54,39,68, 54,84is
(a) 45 (b) 49.5 (c) 54 (d) 56
68. Mode of the data
15, 14, 19, 20, 14, 15, 16, 14, 15, 18, 14, 19, 15, 17, 15 is?
(a)14 (b)15 (c)16 (d)17
69. The mean of six numbers is 23. If one of the
numbers is excluded, the mean of the remaining
numbers becomes 20. The excluded number is?
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69. The mean of six numbers is 23. If one of the
numbers is excluded, the mean of the remaining
numbers becomes 20. The excluded number is?
(a) 36 (b) 37 (c) 38 (d) 39
70. What are the groups into which large data is
condensed called?
(a) Class limits (b) Classes
(c) Class size (d) Class width
71 . The class mark of the class interval 40-50 is __
(a) 40 (b) 45 (c) SO (d) Data insufficient
72. Study the following frequency table and choose the
appropriate answer.
Class Intervals Frequencv
0-10 6
10-20 2
20-30 13
30-40 17
40-50 11
50-60 4

60-70 8
70-80 7
The class interval having highest frequency is?

(a) 30-40 (b)S0-60 (c)20-30 (d)40-50

73.
Class 0-10 10-2.0 20-30 30-40 40-50 total
interval
Frequency 1 6 20 12 6 45

Which class has lowest frequency?

(a) 0-1 O (b) 10-20 (c) 20~30 (d) 30-40
74. The difference between upper and lower limit is
called?
(a) group (b) class marks
(c) class size (d) class internal
75. The mean of x+2, x+3, x+4 and x-2 is?
(a)~
4
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4
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4
(d)~
4
76. The median of the data= 17, 2, 7, 27, 15, 5, 14, 8, 10,
24, 48, 10, 8, 7, 18,28is?
76. The median of the data= 17, 2, 7, 27, 15, 5, 14, 8, 10,
24,48, 10, 8, 7, 18,28is?
(a) 10 (b) 24 (c) 12 (d) 8
77. The mode of the given data= 4, 6, 5, 9, 3, 2, 7, 7, 6, 5,
4, 9, 1o, 1o, 3, 4, 7, 6, 9, 9 is?
(a) 7 (b) 9 (c) 10 (d) 6
78. The value which appears very frequently in a data is
called?
(a) Mean (b) Median
(C) Mode (d) Central tendency
79. The collection of information, collected for a
purpose is called?

(a) Mean (b) Median (c) Mode (d) Data

80. The mean of the dat a 2, 3, 4, 5, 0, 1, 3, 3, 4, 3 is?
(a) 2 (b) 2.2 (c) 2.4 (d) 2.8
81. Which of the fol lowing is not a measure of central
tendency?
(a) Standard deviation (b) Mean
(c) Median (d) Mode
82. The class mark of the class 90-130 is?
(a) 90 (b) 105 (c) 115 (d) 110
83. The range of the data.
25, 81, 20, 22, 16, 6, 17,15, 12, 30, 32, 1 O, 91, 8, 11, 20 is?
(a) 1O (b) 75 (c) 85 (d) 26
84. In a frequency distribution, the mid value of a class
is 1O and the width of the class is 6. The upper limit of
the class is?
(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 1 o (d) 13
85. The width of each of five continuous classes in a
frequency distribution is 5 and the lower class-limit of
the lowest class is 10. The lower class-limit of the
highest class is?
(a) 15 (b) 30 (C) 35 (d) 40
86. Let m be the mid-point and 1 be the lower class
limit of a class in a continuous frequency distribution.
The upper class limit of the class is?
(a) 2m + I (b) 2m - I (c) m - I (d) m - 21
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87. The class marks of a frequency distribution are

given as follows?
15, 20, 25, ...
The class corresponding to the class mark 15 is?

(a) 12.5- 17.5 (b) 17.5 - 22.5

(c) 18.5 - 21.5 (d) 19.5 - 20.5
88. In the class intervals 10 - 20, 20 - 30, the number
20 is included in?
(a) 10-20 (b) 20-30
(c) both the intervals (d) none of these intervals
89. A grouped frequency table with class intervals of
equal sizes using 250-270 (270 not included in this
interval) as one of the class interval is constructed for
the following data?
268, 220, 368, 258,242,310,272, 342, 310,290,300,
320, 319,304,402, 318, 406,292,354,278,210,240, 330,
316,406,215, 258,236.
The frequency of the class 370-390 is?
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 3 (d) 5
90. The mean of five numbers is 30. If one number is
excluded, their mean becomes 28. the excluded
number is?
(a) 28 (b) 30 (c) 35 (d) 38
91 . The median of the data
78, 56, 22,34,45, 54,39,68,54,84is?
(a) 45 (b) 49.5 (c) 54 (d) 56
92. For drawing a frequency polygon of a continuous
frequency distribution, we plot the points whose
ordinates are the frequencies of the respective classes
and abscissae are respectively?
(a) upper limits of the classes
(b) lower limits of the classes
(c) class marks of the classes

(d) upper limits of preceding classes

93. Mode of the data
15, 14, 19, 20, 16, 15, 16, 14, 15, 18, 14, 19, 16, 17, 16 is?
(a)14 (b)15 (c)16 (d)17
94. A grouped frequency distribution table with classes
of equal sizes using 63-72 (72 included) as one of the
class is constructed for the following data.
30,32,45, 54, 74, 78,108, 112,66, 76,88,40, 14,20, 15,
35,44, 66, 75, 84, 95, 96, 102, 110,88, 74,112, 14,34,
44.
The number of classes in the distribution will be?
(a) 9 (b) 10 (C) 11 (d) 12
95. The mean of 25 observations is 26. Out of these
observations if the mean of first 13 observations is 22
and that of the last 13 observations is 30, the 13th
observation is?
(a) 23 (b) 26 (c) 28 (d) 30
96. The range of the data 20, 8, 20, 18, 16, 15, 30, 12,
22,6, 11, 17,25,32, 10, 19is?
(a) 15 (b) 16 (c) 18 (d) 26
97. In a grouped frequency distribution, the class
intervals are 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, ..., then the class width
is
(a) 10 (b) 15 (C) 20 (d) 30
98. The mean of eight numbers is 42. If one number is
excluded, their mean becomes 39. The excluded
number is?
(a) 56 (b) 63 (c) 65 (d) 70

99. The given cumulative frequency distribution shows

the class intervals and their corresponding cumulative
frequencies. Then the frequency of class interval 20-30
is?
Class 10-20 20-30 30-40
Cumulative frequen cy 5 14 25

(a) 5 (b) 9 (c) 11 (d) 20

100. In a bar graph if 1 cm represents 30 km, then the
length of bar needed to represent 75 km is?
(a) 2 cm (b) 3 cm (c) 3.5 cm (d) 2.5 cm

Answer
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1 - b, 2 - d, 3 - C, 4 - a, 5 - b, 6 - C, 7 - d, 8 - b, 9 - a,
10 - c, 11 - a, 12 - a, 13 - a, 14 - b, 15 - b, 16 - a, 17 - c,
18 - d, 19 - a, 20 - d, 21 - b, 22 - c, 23 - b, 24 - b, 25 - c,
26 - a, 27 - a, 28 - C, 29 - C, 30 - b, 31 - C, 32 - b, 33 - a,
34 - d, 35 - c, 36 - c, 37 - a, 38 - b, 39 - a, 40 - c, 41 - d,
42 - b, 43 - c, 44 - a, 45 - c, 46 - c, 47 - d, 48 - d, 49 - c,
50 - c, 51 - c. 62 - d, 53 - b, 54 - d, 55 - b, 56 - d, 57 - b,
58 - a, 59 - a, 60 - b, 61 - d, 62 - c, 63 - b, 64 - d, 65 - d,
66 - b, 67 - C, 68 - b, 69 - C, 70 - b, 71 - b, 72 - a, 73 - a,
74 - c, 75 - d, 76 - c, 77 - b, 78 - c, 79 - d, 80 - d, 81 - a,
82 - d, 83 - c, 84 - d, 85 - b, 86 - b, 87 - a, 88 - b, 89 - a,
90 - d, 91 - c, 92 - c, 93 - c, 94 - b, 95 - b, 96 - d, 97 - a,
98 - b, 99 - b, 1 00 - d.