Descriptive Statistics 2021

Measures of Central Tendency

01. The numbers of ATM transactions per day were recorded at 15 locations in a large city. The data were
35, 49, 225, 50, 30, 65, 40, 55, 52, 76, 48, 325, 47, 32 and 60. Find the mean number of transactions.
02. Find the mean of the following frequency data
No. of employees absent 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
No. of days 2 4 3 4 3 3 3
03. Find the mean of the following Grouped data
Weekly wage (£) 180 – 185 185 – 190 190 – 195 195 – 200 200 – 205 205 – 210
No. of employees 41 57 27 23 15 7

04. From the following find the mean profits

Profit per shop (£ ) 100-200 200-300 300-400 400-500 500-600 600-700 700-800
Number of shops 10 18 20 26 30 28 18

05. From the following information pertaining to 150 workers. Calculate average wage paid to workers.
Wages (£) More than 75 > 85 > 95 > 105 > 115 > 125 > 135 > 145
No. of workers 150 140 115 95 70 60 40 25
06. Find mean of the following data
Class-interval 50-59 40-49 30-39 20-29 10-19 0-9
Frequency 1 3 8 10 15 2
07. Find out the missing values of the variate in the following distribution whose mean is 31.87.
x 12 20 27 33 ? 54
f 8 16 48 90 30 8
08. An average rainfall of a city from Monday to Saturday is 0.3 inch. Due to heavy rainfall on Sunday,
the average rainfall for the week increased to 0.5 inch. What was the rainfall on Sunday?
09. From the following data calculate the missing value when its mean is 115.86
Wages (Rs.) 110 112 113 117 ? 125 128 130
No. of workers 25 17 13 15 14 08 06 02
10. The monthly incomes of ten families of a certain locality are given in rupees as below
Family A B C D E F G H I J
Income (£ ) 85 70 10 75 500 80 42 250 40 36
Calculate the arithmetic average.
11. The following data related to the distance travelled by 520 villagers to buy their weekly
requirements, calculate arithmetic average.
Miles travelled: 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 28
No. of villagers: 38 104 140 78 48 42 28 24 16 2
12. Fifty students took up a test. The result of those who passed the test is given below
Marks 4 5 6 7 8 9
Number of Students 8 10 9 6 4 3
If the average marks for all the fifty students were 5.16, find the average marks of the students who failed.

13. Find mean from the following frequency distribution

Class interval 15-25 25-35 35-45 45-55 55-65 65-75
Frequency 4 11 19 14 0 2

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14. The following table gives the weekly wages in rupees of workers in certain commercial organization.
The frequency of class-interval 49-52 is missing.
Weekly wages ( £ ) 40-43 43-46 46-49 49-52 52-55
No. of Workers 31 58 60 ? 37
It is known the mean of the above frequency distribution is 47.2. Find the missing frequency.
15. Mean of 20 values is 45. If one of these values is to be taken 64 instead of 46. Find the corrected
mean.
16. The average monthly sales for the first eleven months of the year in respect of a certain salesman
were Rs.12,000 but due to his illness during the last month, the average monthly sales for the whole
year came down to Rs.11,375. What was the value of his sales during the last month?
17. The average weight of a group of 25 boys was calculated to be 78.4 lb. It was later discovered that
one weight was misread as 69 lb. instead of 96 lb. Calculate the correct average?
18. Mean of 100 items is found to be 30. If at the time of calculation two items are wrongly taken as 32
and 12 instead of 23 and 11, find the correct mean?
19. The mean age of a combined group of men and women is 30 years. If the mean age of the group of
men is 32 and that of the group of women is 27, find out the percentage of men and women in the
group?
20. The mean wage of 100 labourers working in a factory, running two shifts of 60 and 40 workers
respectively, is Rs.38. The mean wage of 60 labourers working in the morning shift is Rs.40. Find the
mean wage of 40 labourers working in the evening shift?
21. Find the median of the set of numbers 3, 4 ,4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 8, and 10
22. Find the median of the set of numbers 5, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 15 and 18
23. The following are the marks scored by 7 students; find out the median marks
Roll Numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Marks 45 32 18 57 65 28 46
24. Find out the median from the following
57 58 61 42 38 65 72 66
25. Locate median from the following
Size of Shoes 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8
Frequency 10 16 28 15 30 40 34
26. Calculate the median from the following table
Marks 10 - 25 25 - 40 40 - 55 55 - 70 70 - 85 85 - 100
Frequency 6 20 44 2 3 1
27. The following table shows age distribution of persons in a particular region. Find the median age
Age (below ) 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
No. of persons ('000) 2 5 9 12 14 15 15.5
28. From the following data calculate the median marks
Marks 10 - 19 20 - 29 30 - 39 40 - 49 50 - 59 60 - 69 70 - 79 80 - 89
Frequency 7 15 18 25 30 20 16 7
29. Find the mode of set 2, 2, 5, 7, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12 and 18
30. Find the mode of set 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15 and 16
31. Find the mode of set 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7 and 9
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32. The numbers of fully formed apples on 100 plants were counted with the following results
Number of Plants 2 5 7 11 18 24 12 8 6 4 3
Number of Apples 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
i. How many apples were there in all?
ii. What was the average of number of apples per plant?
iii. What was the modal number of apples?
33. Compute the modes from the following series
Size of item 10 - 15 15 - 20 20 - 25 25 - 30 30 - 35 35 - 40 40 - 45
Frequency 32 28 20 16 34 10 8

Income 0 - 10 10 - 20 20 - 30 30 - 40 40 - 50
Persons 10 14 19 17 13

Measures of Dispersion
01. Find the Range in sales of shops A & B
shop A 1120 990 1040 1030 1105 1015
shop B 1090 505 915 1005 2115 815
02. Find the range of weights of 7 students from the following: 27, 30, 35, 36, 38, 40 and 43.
03. Find the Mean absolute deviation of the sales figures (£) of shop A
shop A 1340 890 1045 1035 1125 1135
04. Find the Mean absolute deviation of the sales figures (£) of shop B
shop B 1090 505 915 1005 2115 815
05. Calculate mean absolute deviation for the following data:
100 150 200 250 360 490 500 600 671
06. Calculate mean absolute deviation from the following data:
x 2 4 6 8 10
f 1 4 6 4 1
07. Calculate mean absolute deviation from the following data:
x 5 10 15 20 25
f 1 3 5 4 2
08. Find the standard deviation of the data set 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 4, 3 and 4.
09. Calculate the standard deviation from the data 14, 22, 9, 15, 20, 17, 12 and 11.
10. 10 students of B. Com. Class of a college have obtained the following marks in Statistics out of 100
marks. Calculate the standard deviation.
Marks 5 10 20 25 40 42 45 48 70 80
11. Find the standard deviation of the number of employees absent.
No. of Employees absent 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
No. of days 2 4 3 4 3 3 3
12. Find the standard deviation of the group data given below
Output 10 – 30 30 – 50 50 – 70 70 –90 90 – 110
Number of days 4 6 5 4 3

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13. The following data relate to the age of a group of workers. Calculate the arithmetic mean and the
standard deviation.
Age 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50 50-55
No. of workers 170 110 80 45 40 30 25
14. Given the following information, find standard deviation.
𝑛 = 10 ∑X = 60 ∑𝑋 2 = 1000
15. The mean of 200 items is 48 and their standard deviation is 3. Find the sum and sum of squares of
all items.
16. Calculate the mean and the standard deviation from the following data:
x 2 4 6 8 10
f 1 4 6 4 1
17. A student obtained the mean and standard deviation of 100 observations as 40 and 5.1 respectively.
It was later discovered that he had wrongly copied down an observation as 50 instead of 40.
Calculate the correct mean and standard deviation.
18. The arithmetic mean and the standard deviation of a series of 20 items were calculated by a student
as 20 cm and 5 cm respectively. But while calculating them an item 13 was misread as 30. Find the
correct standard deviation.
19. Government statistics on the basic weekly wages of workers in two countries show the following
Mean Standard Deviation
Country V 120 55
Country W 90 50
Can we conclude that country V has a wider spread of basic weekly wage?
20. Find out which of the following batsmen is more consistent in scoring. Would you also accept him
as a better batsman? Why?
Batsman A 5 7 16 27 39 53 56 61 80 101 105
Batsman B 0 4 16 21 41 43 57 78 83 93 5
21. Two cricketers scored the following runs in the several innings. Find who is a better run getter and
who is a more consistent player.
Batsman A 42 17 83 59 72 76 64 45 40 32
Batsman B 28 70 31 0 59 108 82 14 3 95

22. From the prices of, shares X and Y given below state which share is more stable in value:
X 55 54 52 53 56 58 52 50 51 49
Y 108 107 105 105 106 107 104 103 104 101
23. Calculate the standard deviation and the coefficient of variation of the following
X 10 – 30 30 – 50 50 – 70 70 – 90 90 – 110 110 – 130 130 – 150
f 14 59 101 61 28 17 4
24. Lives of two models of refrigerators turned in for new models in a recent survey are:
Life time ( years ) 0–2 2–4 4–6 6–8 8 – 10 10 – 12
No. of Model A 5 16 13 7 5 4
No. of Model B 2 7 12 19 9 1
What is the average life of each model of these refrigerators? Which model has more uniformity?

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