PRACTICE QUESTION

ZIDD

MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY

1. Average of 7 consecutive numbers is 33, then largest of these numbers is

(A) 34
(B) 35
(C) 36
(D) 37

2. Average weight of 120 students is 56 kg. if the average weight of boys is 60 kg and average weight of Girls is 50 kg,
then the number of girls is
(A) 48
(B) 60
(C) 72
(D) 50

3. A student is asked to find the mean of numbers 3, 11, 7, 9, 15, 13, 8, 19, 17, 21, 14 and x. He found mean to be 12.
What should be the number in place of x?
(A) 3
(B) 7
(C) 17
(D) 31

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4. x
n 1
n  426 . Also average of x11 & x12 is 40, then the mean of all the observations taken together is

(A) 46.6
(B) 38.83
(C) 42.16
(D) None of these

5. The average weight of 9 students of a class is 63 kg. If the average weight of first 3 students is 65 kg and the average
weight of next 3 students is 60 kg then what is the average weight of remaining 3 students?
(A) 64 Kg
(B) 63 Kg
(C) 61 Kg
(D) 62 Kg

6. The A.M. of square of first ‘2n’ natural number is

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(A) 6 (2𝑛 + 1)(4𝑛 − 1)
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(B) 6 (2𝑛 − 1)(4𝑛 − 1)
1
(C) 6 (2𝑛 − 1)(4𝑛 + 1)
1
(D) 6 (2𝑛 + 1)(4𝑛 + 1)

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7. The mean of 5 observations x, x+2, x+4, x+6 and x+8 are 11, and then mean of last three observations is:
(A) 13
(B) 11
(C) 14
(D) 15

8. The sum of absolute deviations is minimum when it is taken from

(A) Mean
(B) Median
(C) Mode
(D) GM

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9. The harmonic mean A and B is and harmonic mean of C and D is 2𝑎. The harmonic mean of A, B, C and D is
𝑎
2
(A) 𝑎
2
(B) 3𝑎
3
(C) 2𝑎
𝑎
(D) 2

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10. The average salary of all the workers in a workshop is Rs.8000. The average salary of 7 technicians is Rs.12000
and the average salary of the rest is Rs.6000. The total number of workers in the workshop is:
(A) 14
(B) 21
(C) 22
(D) 23

11. There are n observations. If we subtract 10 from each observation the new sum is 45, but if we subtracted 20 from
each the sum is – 35. The original mean of the observations is
(A) 15.6
(B) 18.4
(C) 20
(D) None of these

12. A retail vendor wants to order the goods to wholeseller for his shop. In order to decide what should be the order
which measure of central tendency he should consider
(A) Mean
(B) Median
(C) Mode
(D) Harmonic Mean

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13. If for any two numbers AM, GM and HM are (x + 1), (x – 1) and (x – 2) respectively, then the value of x is
(A) 5
(B) 4
(C) 3
(D) 2

14. A group of 10 friends went to a restaurant to have dinner. 8 of them paid Rs.250 each, the ninth paid Rs.300 more
than the average money paid by each person in the group and the 10th paid Rs. 400. Then what was the total bill
to be paid by the group?
(A) 3000
(B) 4000
(C) 3400
(D) 3800

15. The average weight of 10 person increases by 2.5 kg when a new person comes in place of one of them weighing
65 kg. What is the weight of the new person?
(A) 67.5
(B) 75
(C) 90
(D) 82.5

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 ANSWER KEY

1 C 2 A 3 B 4 C 5 A

6 D 7 A 8 B 9 B 10 B

11 A 12 C 13 C 14 A 15 C

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 Speed Test
1. The mean of a group X is 70 and the mean of group Y is 85. If the number of observations
in group Y is five times that of group X, then the combined mean of both the groups is:
(A) 75 (B) 80 (C) 77.5 (D) 82.52.

2. The Median of the following frequency distribution is:

x 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50
f(X) 8 30 40 12 10
(A) 33 (B) 22.5 (C) 23 (D) 24

3. If the mean and median of a moderately asymmetrical series are 70.8 and 68.6
respectively, then the most probable mode is:
(A) 64.2 (B) 75.2 (C) 63.4 (D) 72.5

4. For a moderately-skewed distribution, which of the following relationship holds?

(A) Mean- Mode = 3(Mean - Median)
(B) Median- Mode = 3(Mean - Median)
(C) Mean- Median = 3(Mean - Mode)
(D) Mean- Median = 3(Median - Mode)

5. Which of the following measure of central tendency will be unaffected if the lowest and
highest observations are removed?
(A) Mean (B) Mode (C) Median (D) Range

6. If Mean of a data set is 22 and Median is 22.33 then Mode is

(A) 21 (B) 21.34 (C) 22.99 (D) 21.54

7. If Arithmetic Mean and coefficient of variation of y are 5 and 20 respectively, the variance
of 12 – 3y
(A) 9 (B) 81 (C) 3 (D) 100

8. Which of the following measure of central tendency depends on the position of the
observation?
(A) Mean (B) Median (C) Mode (D) Harmonic Mean

9. If there are two groups containing 40 and 30 observations and have arithmetic means as
50 and 60, then the combined arithmetic mean is
(A) 55.48 (B) 56.35 (C) 54.28 (D) 50.28

10. If the arithmetic mean of two numbers is 10 and the geometric mean is 6, then the
difference in the numbers is
(A) 12 (B) 14 (C) 16 (D) 8

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11. If x and y are related as 4x + 3y + 11 = 0 and mean deviation of y is 7.20, what is the mean
deviation of x?
(A) 2.70 (B) 7.20 (C) 4.50 (D) 5.40

12. A Professor has given assignment to students in a Statistics class. A student Jagan
computes the arithmetic mean and standard deviation for a set of 100 observations as 50
and 5 respectively. Later on, Sonali points out to Jagan that he has made a mistake in taking
one observation as 100 instead of 50. What would be the correct mean if the wrong
observation is corrected?
(A) 50.5 (B) 49.9 (C) 49.5 (D) 50.1

13. Find the mean of the following data

Class Interval 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
Frequency 9 13 6 4 6 2 3
(A) 23.7 (B) 35.7 (C) 39.7 (D) 43.7

14. The Median of the following set of observations: 24, 18, 36, 42, 30, 28, 21, 29, 25, 33 is
(A) 26.5 (B) 27.5 (C) 28.5 (D) 29.5

15. Find the mode of the following data:

X 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50 50-55
f(x) 20 53 42 42 41 43
(A) 31.75 (B) 30.75 (C) 33.75 (D) 35.75

16. For a moderately skewed distribution of marks in statistics for a group of 200 students,
the mean marks and median marks were found to be 55.60 and 52.40, respectively. What
are the modal marks?
(A) 54.43 (B) 48 (C) 53.56 (D) 46

17. For a given data set: 5, 10, 3, 6, 4, 8, 9, 3, 15, 2, 9, 4, 19, 11, 4; what is the median?
(A) 8 (B) 6 (C) 4 (D) 9

18. If the mean of two numbers is 30 and geometric mean is 24, then what will be the
Harmonic mean of two numbers?
(A) 19.2 (B) 21.8 (C) 22.3 (D) 18.4

19. The Geometric Mean of 3, 7, 11, 15, 24, 28, 30, 0 is

(A) 6 (B) 0 (C) 9 (D) 12

20. The mean of the first three terms is 17 and mean of next four terms is 21. Calculate the
mean of seven terms.
(A) 18.28 (B) 19.78 (C) 19.58 (D) 19.28

21. The mean of a set of 20 observations in 18.3. The mean is reduced by 0.6 when a new
observation is added to the set. The new observation is:
(A) 17.6 (B) 18.9 (C) 5.7 (D) 24.6

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22. If mode of a grouped data is 10 and median is 6, then what is the value of mean?
(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 6 (D) 8

23. The AM and HM of two numbers are 5 and 3.2 respectively, then GM will be:
(A) 4.4 (B) 4.2 (C) 4.0 (D) 3.8

24. If A.M. and G.M. of two positive numbers a and b are 12 and 12, respectively, find the
numbers.
(A) 18 and 6 (B) 15 and 9 (C)16 and 8 (D) 12 and 12

25. The Median of the following frequency distribution is

x 0 - 10 10 - 20 20 - 30 30 - 40 40 - 50
f(x) 3 5 20 12 7

(A) 27.75 (B) 9.35 (C) 8.25 (D) 10.01

26. If two variable 'x’ and 'y' are related as 2x - y = 3, if the median of 'x' is 10, what is median
of 'y'?
(A) 4 (B) 17 (C) 5 (D) 6

27. If the mean and median of a moderately asymmetrical series are 26.8 and 27.9
respectively, then the most probable mode is :
(A) 35.4 (B) 30.1 (C) 34.3 (D) 70.8

28. Mean deviation is minimum when deviations are taken from:

(A) Mean (B) Median (C) Mode (D) Range

29. Ogive for more than type and less than type distributions intersect at
(A) Mean (B) Median (C) Mode (D) Origin

30. The median of the observations 42, 72, 35, 92, 67, 85, 72, 81, 51, 56 is
(A) 69.5 (B) 72 (C) 64 (D) 61.5

31. The mean of 50 observations is 36. If two observations 30 and 42 are to be excluded, then
the mean of the remaining observations will be:
(A) 36 (B) 38 (C) 48 (D) 50

32. If Arithmetic Mean and Geometric Mean between two numbers are 5 and 4 respectively,
then these numbers are
(A) 2 & 3 (B) 2 & 8 (C) 4 & 6 (D) 1 & 16

33. If Arithmetic mean between two numbers is 5 and Geometric mean is 4 then what is the
value of Harmonic mean?
(A) 3.2 (B) 3.4 (C) 3.5 (D) 3.6

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34. The average age of 15 students in a class is 9 years. Out of them, the average age of 5
students is 13 years and that of 8 students is 5 years. What is the average of remaining 2
students?
(A) 5 years (B) 9 years (C) 10 years (D) 15 years

Answer Key – Speed Test

1 D 2 C 3 A 4 A 5 C

6 C 7 A 8 B 9 C 10 C

11 D 12 C 13 B 14 C 15 C

16 D 17 B 18 A 19 B 20 D

21 C 22 B 23 C 24 D 25 A

26 B 27 B 28 B 29 B 30 A

31 A 32 B 33 A 34 D 35

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