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Section A Multiple Choice Questions

The document contains 22 multiple choice questions assessing understanding of key concepts related to measures of central tendency including mean, median, and mode. Questions cover calculating and comparing mean, median, and mode values for data sets, identifying which measure is being assessed, and recognizing appropriate methods for determining these values.

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Section A Multiple Choice Questions

The document contains 22 multiple choice questions assessing understanding of key concepts related to measures of central tendency including mean, median, and mode. Questions cover calculating and comparing mean, median, and mode values for data sets, identifying which measure is being assessed, and recognizing appropriate methods for determining these values.

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SECTION A

Multiple Choice Questions


1. Median divides a series into how many parts?
(a) Two (b) Three (c) Four (d) All of these
2. For calculating median, all items of the series are arranged in:
(a) descending order (b) ascending order (c) ascending or descending order (d) none of these
3. Mode refers to that value of a series that occurs ___________ times in the series.
(a) zero (b) infinite (c) maximum (d) minimum
4. Out of the following, by which method mode can be calculated?
(a) Inspection method (b) Grouping method (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of these
5. In a distribution, the value around which the items tend to be most heavily concentrated is called:
(a) Median (b) Mean (c) Third quartile (d) Mode
6. Which of the following is not as measure of central tendency?
(a) Mean (b) Median (c) Mode (d) Range
7. The number of observations smaller than is the same as the number larger than it.
(a) Median (b) Mode (c) Mean (d) None of these
8. What do you call the partition value which divides the series into two equal pats?
(a) Upper Quartile (b) Median (c) Mode (d) Lower Quartile
9. The middle most value of a set of observations is
(a) Median (b) Mode (c) Mean (d) None of these
10. Mode of a series is.
(a) An average value (b) A middle value (c) Highest frequency value (d) None of above.
11. If mean of a series is 32 and median is 40, what would be the value of mode?
(a) 54 (b) 58 (c) 56 (d) 38
12. Median can be calculated from series:
(a) Individual (b) Discrete (c) Continuous (d) All the above
13. A distribution with more than two modes is called
(a) Bi-modal (b) Multi-modal (c) None of these (d) Uni-modal
14. In a frequency distribution of a large number of values, the mode is:
(a) Smallest value (b) Largest observation (c) Observation with maximum frequency (d) Maximum
frequency of an observation
15. To find the median (mode), it is necessary to arrange the data in:
(a) Descending order (b) Ascending order (c) Ascending or descending order (d) Any of the above
16. A grouping table has
(a) 4 columns (b) 6 columns (b) 8 columns(d) None of these
17. The value of a variate that occur most often is called
(a) Median (b) Mean (c) Mode (d) None of these
18. In case of an even number of observations, which of the following is median?
(a) Any of the two middle-most value (b) The simple average of these two middle values
(c) The weighted average of those two middle values (d) Any of these
19. A frequency distribution having two modes is said to be:
(a) Unimodal (b) Bimodal (c) Trimodal (d) without mode
20. If mode is ill defined then it is calculated with the help of formula:
(a) Mode = 2 Median – 3 mean (b) Mode = 2 Median + 3 mean
(c) Mode = 3 Median + 3 mean (d) Mode = 3 Median - 2 mean
21._______ is called a positional measure.
(a) Median (b) Mode (c) Mean (d) None of these
22. For ordering shoes of various sizes for resale, a size will be more appropriate.
(a) Modal (b) Mean (c) Median (d) None of these

SECTION B

1. The mean of a group of 100 observations was found to be 20. Later on, it was found that three
observations were incorrect, which was recorded as 21, 21 and 18. Then the mean if the incorrect
observations are omitted is (a) 20 (b) 18 (c) 22 (d) 24
2. If the mean of the following data is 20.6, then the value of p is
x = 10  15   p   25  35
f =   3   10  25   7    5
(a) 20 (b) 30 (c) 25 (d) 10
3. If the difference of mode and median of a data is 24, then the difference of median and mean is
(a) 12 (b) 24 (c) 8 (d) 36
4. The median of 7, 6, 4, 8, 2, 5, 11 is (a) 6 (b) 12 (c) 11 (d) 4
5. Number which occurs most frequently in a set of numbers is_____________
6. The mode of 12, 17, 16, 14, 13, 16, 11, 14,14 is_________
7. If the mean of 6 numbers is 41 then the sum of these numbers is_____
8. If the mean of 5 observation x, x + 2, x + 4, x + 6 and x  + 8 is 11, find the value of x.
9. If the mean of 25 observations is 27 and each observation is decreased by 7, what will be the new
mean?
10. 2. Formula for finding arithmetic mean is:
(a) 𝑥̅ = 𝛴 (b) 𝑥̅ = 𝛴𝑥 𝑁 (c) 𝑋 ̅ = 𝛴𝑋 − 𝑁 (d) 𝑥̅ = 𝑁 𝛴𝑋
11. Which is not a method to find arithmetic mean?
(a) Direct method (b) Short-cut method (c) Step-deviation method (d) Karl Pearson's method
12. Assumed mean is taken in which method?
(a) Direct method (b) Step-deviation method (c) Karl Pearson's method (d) Spearman's method

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