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1. The SD of 15 items is 6 and if each item is c) Negative skewness
decreases by 1, then standard derivation will be d) All of the above
a) 5 b) 7
91
c) 15
d) 6 9. The mode of the series 3,4,2,6,1,7,6,7,6,8,9,5 is
a) 5 b) 6
2. The mean weight of 9 items is 15. If one more item c) 7 d) 8
is added to the series, the mean becomes 16. The
value of 10th item is 10. A group of 10 items has arithmetic mean 6. If the
a) 35 b) 30 arithmetic mean of 4 of these items is 7.5, then the
c) 25 d) 20 mean of the remaining items is
a) 6.5 b) 5.5
3. The regression coefficient of y on 𝑥 is 2/3 and c) 4.5 d) 5.0
that of 𝑥 on y is 4/3 .The acute angle between
the two regression lines is tan−1 𝑘,where k is 11. The weighted mean of first 𝑛 natural numbers
equal to whose weights are equal is given by
𝑛+1 2 𝑛+1
a) 1/9 b) 2/9 a) 2 b) 2
c) 1/18 d) 1/3 c)
2 𝑛+1
d)
(2 𝑛+1)(𝑛+1)
3 6

4. The mean-deviation and coefficient of mean 12. Following are the marks obtained by 9 students in
deviation from the data. Weight (in kg) 54, 50, Mathematics test: 50,69,20,33,53,39,40,65,59
40, 42, 51, 45, 47, 55, 57 is The mean deviation from the median is
a) 0.0900 b) 0.0956 a) 9 b) 10.5
c) 0.0056 d) 0.0946 c) 12.67 d) 14.76

5. The median of 10,14,11,9,8,12,6 is 13. Coefficient of skewness for the values

a) 14 b) 11 Median = 18.8, 𝑄1 = 14.6, 𝑄3 = 25.2 is
c) 10 d) 12 a) 0.2 b) 0.5
c) 0.7 d) None of these
6. If 25% of the observations in a frequency
distribution are less than 2 and 25% are more than 14. If 𝐺1 , 𝐺2 are the geometric means of two series of
40, then the quartile deviation is observations and 𝐺 is the GM of the ratios of the
a) 20 b) 30 corresponding observations then 𝐺 is equal to
𝐺1
c) 40 d) 10 a) b) log 𝐺1 − log 𝐺2
𝐺2
log 𝐺1
7. The AM of the series 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, . . . , 2𝑛 is c) log 𝐺2
d) log(𝐺1 ∙ 𝐺2 )
2𝑛 −1 2𝑛+1 −1
a) 𝑛
b) 𝑛+1
2𝑛 +1 2𝑛 −1
15. Let 𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐, 𝑑, 𝑒 be the observations with mean 𝑚
c) 𝑛
d) 𝑛+1 and standard deviation 𝜎. The standard deviation
of the observations 𝑎 + 𝑘, 𝑏 + 𝑘, 𝑐 + 𝑘, 𝑑 + 𝑘, 𝑒 +
8. The values of mean, median and mode 𝑘, is
coincide, then the distribution is a) 𝜎 b) 𝑘 𝜎
a) Positive skewness c) 𝑘 + 𝜎 d) 𝜎/𝑘
b) Symmetric distribution

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16. The mean of the series 𝑥1 , 𝑥2 , … , 𝑥𝑛 is 𝑋. If 𝑥2 is 19. Consider first 10 positive integers having standard
replaced by 𝜆, then the new mean is deviation 2.87. If we multiply each number by −1
𝑋−𝑥2 −𝜆 and then add 1 to each number, the standard
a) 𝑋 − 𝑥2 + 𝜆 b) 𝑛 deviation of the numbers so obtained is
(𝑛−1)𝑋+𝜆 𝑛 𝑋−𝑥2 +𝜆
c) d) a) 8.25 b) 2.87
𝑛 𝑛
c) −2.87 d) −8.25
17. If the mean of a set of observations 𝑥1 , 𝑥2 , … 𝑥10 is
20, then the mean of 𝑥1 + 4, 𝑥2 + 8, … 𝑥10 + 40 is 20. The S.D. of the series a, 𝑎 + 𝑑, 𝑎 + 2 𝑑, … , 𝑎 + 2𝑛𝑑,
a) 34 b) 38 is
c) 40 d) 42 a)
𝑛(𝑛+1) 2
𝑑 b) √
𝑛(𝑛+1)
𝑑
3 3

18. The mean deviation from mean of the observation 𝑛(𝑛−1) 2 𝑛(𝑛−1)
c) 3
𝑑 d) √ 3
𝑑
𝑎, 𝑎 + 𝑑, 𝑎 + 2𝑑, … 𝑎 + 2𝑛𝑑 is
𝑛(𝑛+1)𝑑 2 𝑛(𝑛+1) 2
a) 3
b) 2
𝑑
𝑛(𝑛+1)𝑑 2
c) 𝑎+ 2
d) None of these

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Solution
1. (d) 5. (c)
2 (c) 6. (d)
Total weight of 9 items = 15 × 9 = 135
And total weight of 10 items = 16 × 10 = 160 7. (b)
∴ weight of 10th item = 160 − 135 = 25 The required AM is
1 + 2 + 22 + 23 +. . . +2𝑛
̅
𝑋=
3. (c) 𝑛+1
2 4 1(2𝑛+1 − 1) 1 2𝑛+1 − 1
× −1 = . =
𝜃 = tan {3 3
−1
} (2 − 1) (𝑛 + 1) 𝑛+1
2 4
+ 8. (b)
3 3
1 If the values of mean, median and mode coincide,
1
⇒ 𝜃 = tan−1 {− 9 } = tan−1 {− } then the distribution is symmetric distribution.
2 18
9. (b)
∴ Angle is acute angle.
1
In the given distribution 6 occurs most of the
∴ k=18 times hence mode of the series=6.
4. (b) 10. (d)
On arranging the terms in increasing order of
11. (a)
magnitude
40,42,45,47,50,51,54,55,57 12. (a)
Number of terms ,N=9
9+1 13. (a)
∴ Median = ( ) th term = 5th term = 50kg Coefficient of skewness =
𝑄3 −𝑄1 −2(𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛)
2 𝑄3 −𝑄1
Weight Deviation |d| 25.2 + 14.6 − 2(18.8)
(kg) from =
25.2 − 14.6
2.2
median = 10.6 = 0.20
(d)
40 -10 10 14. (a)
42 -8 8
Let 𝑥1 , 𝑥2 , … , 𝑥𝑛 and 𝑦1 , 𝑦2 , … 𝑦𝑛 be two series of
45 -5 5 observations with geometric means 𝐺1 and 𝐺2
47 -3 3 respectively
50 0 0 Then,
51 1 1 𝐺1 = (𝑥1 ∙ 𝑥2 ∙ … ∙ 𝑥𝑛 )1/𝑛 and 𝐺2 = (𝑦1 ∙ 𝑦2 ∙ … ∙ 𝑦𝑛 )1/𝑛
54 4 4 Since 𝐺 is the geometric mean of the ratios of the
55 5 5 corresponding observations
57 7 7 𝑥1 𝑥2 𝑥𝑛 1/𝑛 (𝑥1 𝑥2 … 𝑥𝑛 )1/𝑛 𝐺1
|d|=43 ∴ 𝐺 = ( ∙ ∙…∙ ) = 1/𝑛
=
𝑦1 𝑦2 𝑦𝑛 (𝑦1 ∙ 𝑦2 … 𝑦𝑛 ) 𝐺2
43
MD from median= 9 = 4.78kg
15. (a)
∴Coefficient of MD from median
MD 16. (d)
= We have,
median
4.78 𝑥1 + 𝑥2 + ⋯ + 𝑥𝑛−1 + 𝑥𝑛
= 50 = 0.0956 𝑋=
𝑛

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⇒ 𝑛 𝑋 = 𝑥1 + 𝑥2 + ⋯ + 𝑥𝑛−1 + 𝑥𝑛
Let 𝑌 be the new mean when 𝑥2 is replaced by 𝜆.
Then,
𝑥1 + 𝜆 + 𝑥3 + ⋯ + 𝑥𝑛−1 + 𝑥𝑛
𝑌=
𝑛
(𝑥1 + 𝑥2 + ⋯ + 𝑥𝑛 ) − 𝑥2 + 𝜆
⇒𝑌=
𝑛
𝑛 𝑋−𝑥2 +𝜆
⇒𝑌= 𝑛

17. (d)
1
Mean = 10 [(𝑥1 + 𝑥2 +. . . +𝑥10 ) + (4 + 8+. . . +40)]
1 4
= (𝑥1 + 𝑥2 + ⋯ + 𝑥10 ) + (1 + 2 + ⋯ + 10)
10 10
4×10×11
= 20 + 10×2 = 42

18. (d)
1
𝑥̅ = [𝑎 + (𝑎 + 𝑑) + ⋯ + (𝑎 + 2𝑛𝑑)]
2𝑛 + 1
1
= [(2𝑛 + 1)𝑎 + 𝑑(1 + 2 + ⋯ + 2𝑛)]
2𝑛 + 1
2𝑛 (2𝑛 + 1)
=𝑎+𝑑 . = 𝑎 + 𝑛𝑑
2 2𝑛 + 1
1
∴ MD from mean = ∑|𝑥1 − 𝑥̅ |
2𝑛 + 1
1
= 2|𝑑|(1 + 2+. . . +𝑛)
2𝑛 + 1
𝑛(𝑛+1)|𝑑|
= (2𝑛+1)

19. (b)
20. (b)
We have,
2𝑛
2
1
𝜎 = ∑{(𝑎 + 𝑟𝑑) − (𝑎 + 𝑛𝑑)}2
2𝑛+1
𝑟=0
2 𝑑2
⇒ 𝜎2 = {12 + 22 + ⋯ + 𝑛2 }
2𝑛+1
𝑛(𝑛+1) 2 𝑛(𝑛+1)
⇒ 𝜎2 = 𝑑 ⇒𝜎=√ 𝑑
3 3

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