Fall 2024-25 BMAT202L Probability and Statistics

Tutorial Sheet for Module – 1

Easy
1. Calculate A.M, G.M and H.M of the following observations and show that

A.M > G.M >H.M , 32,35,36,37,39,41,43.

2. Calculate the H.M of the following series of monthly expenditure in Rs. Of a batch of
students. 125,130,75,10,45,0.5,0.4,400,150.
3. Calculate the A.M from following data.
Value 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Frequency 7 11 16 17 26 31 11 1 1

4. Find the mean of the following frequency distribution.

Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

No.of students 3 5 9 3 2

5. Find the H.M of the following distribution.

x 2 3 4 5 6

y 5 7 11 9 8

6. Calculate the G.M and H.M of the following frequency distribution.

class 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-12

frequency 20 40 30 10

7. Three persons A,B and C can prepare a model in 20,40 and 25 minutes respectively. What is
their average speed?
8. A man travels 20 K.m at 40 K.m.p.h, 10 K.m at 30 K.m.p.h and 30 K.m at 60 K.m.p.h. What
is his average speed?
9. Calculate the mode from the following frequency distribution.
x 1-9 9-17 17-25 25-33 33-41 41-49 49-51

y 20 31 27 15 10 7 8

10. The expenditure of 100 families is given below.

expenditure 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

No.of families 14 ? 27 ? 15

Mode for the distribution is 24. Calculate the missing frequencies.

11. Find mean, medium and mode for the set of numbers.

I. 6,8,2,5,9,5,6,2,3.

II. 61.7, 71.8,65.3,70,69.8.

12. In a moderately asymmetrical distribution if mean is 24.6 and mode is 26.1 find the median.
13. In a skewed distribution mean and median are respectively 33 and 34.5. Find the mode.
14. Find mean, medium and mode for the following frequency distribution.
class frequency class frequency

20-34 3 40-44 12

25-29 5 45-49 6

30-34 10 50-54 3

35-39 20 55-59 1

15. Determine the model class and hence find the mode for the 100 article which follow the
following frequency distribution.
Wt. in kgs No. of article Wt. in kgs No. of article

0-9 6 50-59 263

10-19 29 60-69 133

20-29 87 70-79 43

30-39 181 80-89 9

40-49 247 90-99 2

 Medium
1. Find the arithmetic mean of the following frequency distribution

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
f 5 9 12 17 14 10 6
2. Calculate the arithmetic mean of the marks from the following table

Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60

No. of 12 18 27 20 17 6
Students
3. Find the median wage of the following distribution

Wages (in Rs.) 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70

No. of labourers 3 5 20 10 5
4. In a factory employing 3000 persons, 5% earn less than Rs.3 per hours, 580 earn from
Rs.3.01 to Rs.4.50 per hour, 30% earn from Rs.4.51 to Rs.6.00 per hour, 500 earn from
Rs.6.01 to Rs.7.50 per hour, 20 % earn from Rs.7.51 to Rs.9.00 per hour and the rest earn
Rs.9.01 or more per hour. What is the median age?
5. An investor buys Rs.1200 worth of shares in a company each month. During the first 5
months he bought the shares at a price of Rs.10, Rs.12, Rs.15, Rs.20 and Rs.24 per share.
After 5 months what is the average price paid for the shares by him?
6. The mean salary paid to 1000 employees of an establishment was found to be Rs.18.40.
Later on, after disbursement of salary, it was discovered that the salary of two employees
was wrongly entered as Rs.297 and Rs.165. Their correct salaries were Rs.197 and
Rs.185. Find the correct arithmetic mean.
7. Calculate the mean deviation from mean for the following data.

Class Interval 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10

Frequency 3 4 2 1
8. Find the mode for the following distribution:

X 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

f 5 8 7 12 28 20 10 10

9. A cyclist pedals from his house to his college at a speed of 10 Kmph and back from the
college to his house at 15 Kmph. Find the average speed.
10. The arithmetic mean and the standard deviation of a set of 9 items are 43 and 5
respectively. If an item of value 63 is added to the set, find the mean and standard
deviation of 10 items.
11. Calculate the standard deviation of the following observations.

240.12, 240.13, 240.15, 240.12, 240.17, 240.15, 240.17, 240.16, 240.22, 240.21
12. Calculate the standard deviation for the following table giving the age distribution of 542
members.

Age in 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90

years
No. of 3 61 132 153 140 51 2
members

13. Calculate the first four moments of the following distribution about the mean by
calculating the moment about origin.

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
f 1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1

14. Find out the kurtosis of the data given below.

Class Interval 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40

Frequency 1 3 4 2

15. Obtain the Karl Pearson’s measure of skewness for the following data.

Values 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40

Frequency 6 8 17 21 15 11 2

Hard
1. The following data relate to the frequency distribution of Intelligence Quotients (I.Q.’s)
of 900 school children. Find the lower and upper quartiles, 4th decile and 80th percentile
of the distribution.

I.Q 55-64 65-74 75-84 85-94 95-104 105-114 115-124 125-134 135-144

No. of 3
Children 21 78 182 302 207 81 21 5

2. Compute the geometric mean and harmonic mean of the following frequency table
relating to the weights of 120 articles.

Weight in 50-60
0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50
grams
No. of 18
14 17 22 26 23
articles
3. The average salary of male employees in a company is Rs. 10,000 and that of female
employees is Rs. 7,500. The average salary of all the employees is Rs. 9,000. Find the
percentage of male and female employees in the company.

4. On a particular day, 45 male patients, 35 female patients and some child patients visited a
doctor’s clinic. If their average weights are respectively 66 kg, 58 kg and 30 kg and if the
average weight of all the patients put together is 56 kg., find the number of child patients
who called on the doctor.

5. Petrol is sold at the rate of Rs. 60, Rs. 65 and Rs. 70 per liter during three consecutive
months. The owner of a car has decided to spend the same amount every month for the
purchase of petrol. Find the average amount he spends for petrol per month.

6. An incomplete frequency distribution is given below:

Class 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

Frequency 12 30 f3 65 f5 25 18

Given that the total frequency is 230 and the median is 46. Determine the missing
frequency f3 and f5.

7. A man travels a distance of 2,700 km by 4 different modes. He covers 1,500 km by train,

500 km by boat, 600 km by plane and 100 km by taxi at the rates of 100 kmph, 40 kmph,
500 kmph and 60 kmph respectively. What is the average speed of the mean for use entre
distance?
Hints: The average speed is given by the weighted harmonic mean, namely
∑ /∑ .

8. Compute the quartile deviation, mean deviation about the mean and mean deviation about
the median of the following frequency distribution. Find also the corresponding
coefficients of dispersion.

Class Total
5 15 25 35 45 55 65 75
mark
Frequency 3 7 9 23 15 8 6 4 75

9. In a distribution of 25 measurements, it was found that the mean and S.D. are 36 cm and
12 cm. After these results were calculated, it was noticed that 2 measurements were
wrongly recorded as 60 cm and 36 cm, instead of 40 and 30 cm. Find the corrected values
of the mean and S.D.

10. The following table gives the distribution of weekly wages of workers in two factories:
which factory has more variability in respect of the wages of workers?
 No. of workers
Weekly wages (T’s)
Factory A Factory B

750-800 14 30

800-850 25 43

850-900 42 65

900-950 10 34

950-1000 9 28

Total 100 200

11. The runs taken by two cricket players A and B in 10 innings are as follows: of these two
players, who is the better scorer and who is more consistent?

A 30 44 66 62 60 34 80 46 20 38

B 34 46 70 38 55 48 60 34 45 30
12. Find the Bowley’s coefficients of skewness of the two groups given below and point out
which group is more skewed.

Class 50-55 55-60 60-65 65-70 70-75 75-80

Group A 12 16 25 19 10 2

Group B 20 22 25 13 6 4

13. In calculating the statistical constants of a frequency distribution with a total of 100
observations, the following results were obtained: Mean = 9, Variance = 19, ,
and . But later on, it was found that one observation 12 was wrongly
counted as 21. Obtain the corrected values of the four constants computed.

14. Find Karl Pearson’s coefficient of skewness of the following frequency distribution:

Class 160-164
130-134 135-139 140-144 145-149 150-154 155-159
Internal
Frequency 3 12 21 28 19 12 5

15. Find the first four central moments and hence and for the following frequency
distribution:

Class 142.45
112.45 117.45 122.45 127.45 132.45 137.45
mark
Frequency 5 15 20 35 10 10 5