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CHECK YOUR GRASP STATISTICS EXERCISE-I

Arithmetic mean, weighted mean, Combined mean 12. In a frequency dist. , if di is deviation of variates
1. Mean of the first n terms of the A.P. fid i
a, (a + d), (a + 2d), ........ is- from a number  and mean =  + , then  is :-
fi
nd (n  1)d (1) Lower limit (2) Assumed mean
(1) a  (2) a  (3) Number of observation(4) Class interval
2 2
(3) a + (n – 1) d (4) a + nd 13. The A.M. of n observation is x . If the sum of n – 4
2. The A.M. of first n even natural number is - observations is K, then the mean of remaining
n+1 n observations is-
(1) n(n + 1) (2) (3) (4) n + 1
2 2 x K nx  K
(1) (2)
3. n n n
The A.M. of C0 , C1 , C2, ..... Cn is - n 4 n 4
nx  K nx  (n  4)K
2n 2 n+1 2n 2 n+1 (3) (4)
4 4
(1) (2) (3) (4)
n n n+1 n+1 1 1 1
14. The mean of values 1, , ,...... which have
4. If the mean of numbers 27, 31, 89, 107, 156 is 82, 2 3 n
then the mean of numbers 130, 126, 68, 50, 1 frequencies 1, 2, 3, ........ n resp., is :-
will be- 2n  1 2 n 1 2
(1) 80 (2) 82 (3) 75 (4) 157 (1) (2) (3) (4)
3 n 2 n 1
5. If the mean of n observations x1, x2, .......xn is x , 15. The sum of squares of deviation of variates from
then the sum of deviations of observations from their A.M. is always :-
mean is :- (1) Zero (2) Minimum
(3) Maximum (4) Nothing can be said
(1) 0 (2) nx 16. If the mean of following feq. dist. is 2.6, then the
x value of f is :-
(3) (4) None of these
n xi 1 2 3 4 5
6. The mean of 9 terms is 15. if one new term is
fi 5 4 f 2 3
added and mean become 16, then the value of
new term is :- (1) 1 (2) 3
(1) 23 (2) 25 (3) 27 (4) 30 (3) 8 (4) None of these
7. If the mean of first n natural numbers is equal to 17. The weighted mean (W.M.) is computed by the
formula ?
n 7
, then n is equal to- x i wi
3
(1) W.M. = (2) W.M. 
(1) 10 (2) 11 w i x i
(3) 12 (4) none of these
w i x i w i x i
8. The mean of first three terms is 14 and mean of (3) W.M. = (4) W.M.=
next two terms is 18. The mean of all the five terms x i w i
18. The weighted mean of first n natural numbers when
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(1) 15.5 (2) 15.0 (3) 15.2 (4) 15.6 their weights are equal to corresponding natural
number, is :-
9. If the mean of five observations x, x + 2 , x + 4,
n 1 2n  1
x+ 6 and x + 8 is 11, then the mean of last three (1) (2)
obsevations is- 2 3
(1) 11 (2) 13 (3) 15 (4) 17 (n  1)(2n  1)
(3) (4) None of these
10. The mean of a set of numbers is x . If each number 6
is decreased by , the mean of the new set is- 19. The average income of a group of persons is x
(1) x (2) x   (3)   x (4) x   and that of another group is y . If the number of
11. The mean of 50 observations is 36. If its two persons of both group are in the ratio 4 : 3, then
average income of combined group is :-
observations 30 and 42 are deleted, then the mean
x+ y 3x + 4y
of the remaining observations is- (1) (2)
7 7
(1) 48 (2) 36
4x + 3y
(3) 38 (4) none of these (3) (4) None of these
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20. In a group of students, the mean weight of boys is 28. A boy goes to school from his home at a speed of
65 kg. and mean weight of girls is 55 kg. If the x km/hr. and comes back at a speed of y km/hr.
mean weight of all students of group is 61 kg, then then the average speed of the boy is :-
the ratio of the number of boys and girls in the xy
group is :- (1) km / hr (2) xy km / hr
2
(1) 2 : 3 (2) 3 : 1 (3) 3 : 2 (4) 4 : 3
2xy xy
Geometric mea n, Harmonic mea n (3) km / hr (4) km / hr
xy 2xy
21. The G.M. of n positive terms x1, x2,..... xn is :- Median, Mode

1 29. The median of an arranged series of n even

(1) (x1 × x2 × ..... × xn)n (2) (x × x2 × ... × xn) observations, will be :-
n 1
(3) (x1 × x2 × ... × xn)1/n (4) None of these
 n  1
(1)   th term
m
22. The G.M. of numbers 4, 5, 10, 20, 25 is :- 2 
(1) 12.8 (2) 10  n
(2)   th term
m
(3) 7.8 (4) None of these 2
23. The geometric mean of the first n terms of the n 
series a, ar, ar2, ...., is- (3)   1 th term
m
2 
(1) arn/2 (2) arn (3) ar(n–1)/2 (4) arn–1
 n n 
24. If G1 and G2 are geometric mean of two series of (4) Mean of   th and   1 th terms
ms
sizes n1 and n2 resp. and G is geometric mean of
2 2
30. The median of the numbers 6, 14, 12, 8, 10, 9,
their combined series, then log G is equal to :-
11, is :-
(1) log G1 + log G2 (2) n1 log G1 + n2log G2 (1) 8 (2) 10 (3) 10.5 (4) 11
31. Median of the following freq. dist.
logG 1  logG 2 n 1 logG 1  n 2 log G 2
(3) (4) xi 3 6 10 12 7 15
n1  n2 n1  n 2
fi 3 4 2 8 13 10
25. The Harmonic mean of 3, 7, 8, 10, 14 is-
(1) 7 (2) 10
3  7  8  10  14
(1) (3) 8.5 (4) None of these
5
32. Median is independent of change of :-
5 (1) only Origin
(2)
3  7  8  10  14
(2) only Scale
1 1 1 1 1 (3) Origin and scale both
   
3 7 8 10 14 (4) Neither origin nor scale
(3)
5
33. A series which have numbers three 4's, four 5's,
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(4)
1 1 1 1 1 mode of numbers is :-
   
3 7 8 10 14 (1) 9 (2) 8 (3) 7 (4) 6
26. The H.M. of the numbers 2, 3, 4 is :- 34. Mode of the following freqency distribution

36 13 x: 4 5 6 7 8
(1) 3 (2) 2(3) 1/3 (3) (4) f: 6 7 10 8 3
13 36
27. The H.M. of following freq. dist. is :- (1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 8 (4) 10
35. The mode of the following freq. dist is :-
xi 3 6 9 12
Class 110 11 20 21 30 31  40 41 50
fi 1 2 3 4
fi 5 7 8 6 4
(1) 9 (2) 3
(1) 24 (2) 23.83
(3) 7.5 (4) None of these
(3) 27.16 (4) None of these
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Symmetric and asymmetric distribution, Range Varia nce a nd Sta ndard De v iat ion

36. For a normal dist :- x a

44. The variate x and u are related by u  then
(1) mean = median h
(2) median = mode correct relation between x and u is :-
(3) mean = mode
(1)  x  h  u (2)  x  h   u
(4) mean = median = mode
37. The relationship between mean, median and mode (3)  u  h  x (4)  u  h   x
for a moderately skewed distribution is-
45. The S.D. of the first n natural numbers is-
(1) mode = median – 2 mean
(2) mode = 2 median – mean
n2  1 n2  1
(3) mode = 2 median – 3 mean (1) (2)
2 3
(4) mode = 3 median – 2 mean

38. The range of observations 2, 3, 5, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 7, n2  1 n2  1

(3) (4)
4, 3 is :- 4 12
(1) 6 (2) 7 (3) 5.5 (4) 11
46. The variance of observations 112, 116, 120, 125,
Mean Deviation 132 is :-
(1) 58.8 (2) 48.8
39. The mean deviation of a frequency dist. is equal to :-
(3) 61.8 (4) None of these
d i  di
10 10
(1) f (2) f
i i 47. If  (x i  15)  12 and  (x i  15)2  18 then the
i 1 i 1

fi d i fi d i S.D. of observations x1, x2 ............ x10 is :-

(3) fi (4) fi 2 3
(1) (2)
5 5
40. Mean deviation from the mean for the observation
4
–1, 0, 4 is- (3) (4) None of these
5
14 2
(1) (2) 48. The S.D. of 7 scored 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 is-
3 3
(1) 4 (2) 2
(3) 2 (4) none of these
41. Mean deviation of the observations 70, 42, 63, (3) 7 (4) none of these
34, 44, 54, 55, 46, 38, 48 from median is :-
49. The variance of series a, a + d, a + 2d, ....., a + 2nd
(1) 7.8 (2) 8.6
is :-
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42. Mean deviation of 5 observations from their mean n(n  1) 2 n(n  1) 2
(1) d (2) d
3 is 1.2, then coefficient of mean deviation is :- 2 3
(1) 0.24 (2) 0.4
(3) 2.5 (4) None of these n(n  1) 2 n(n  1) 2
(3) d (4) d
43. The mean deviation from median is 6 12
(1) greater than the mean deviation from any other
50. Variance is independent of change of-
central value
(2) less than the mean deviation from any other (1) only origin
central value (2) only scale
(3) equal to the mean deviation from any other (3) origin and scale both
central value
(4) none of these
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51. If the coefficient of variation and standard deviation 54. If each observation of a dist., whose variance is 2 ,
of a distribution are 50% and 20 respectively, then is multiplied by , then the S.D. of the new new
its mean is- observations is-
(1) 40 (2) 30 (1)  (2) 
(3) 20 (4) None of these (3) || (4) 2 
55. The standard deviation of variate x i is . Then
52. If each observation of a dist. whose S.D. is , is
ax i  b
increased by , then the variance of the new standard deviation of the variate ,
c
observations is - where a , b, c are constants is-
(1)  (2)  +  a a
(1)    (2) 
(3) 2 (4) 2 +  c c
53. The variance of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 is-
 a2 
(3)  2  (4) None of these
(1) 8 (2) 8 c 
(3) 6 (4) none of these
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Que. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Ans. 2 4 3 3 1 2 2 4 2 4 2 2 3 4 2 1 4 2 3 3
Que. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Ans. 3 2 3 4 4 3 3 3 4 2 3 4 3 2 2 4 4 2 4 3
Que. 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
Ans. 2 2 2 1 4 2 2 2 2 1 1 3 1 3 2
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BRAIN TEASERS STATISTICS EXERCISE-II

1. The A.M. of the series 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ......, 2n is- 9. The observations 29, 32, 48, 50, x, x + 2, 72,
78, 84, 95 are arranged in ascending order and
2n  1 2 n 1  1 their median is 63 then the value of x is :-
(1) (2)
n n 1 (1) 61 (2) 62 (3) 62.5 (4) 63
2n  1 2 n 1  1 10. If the mode of a distribution is 18 and the mean is
(3) (4)
n 1 n 24, then median is-
2. If the mean of n observations 12, 22, 32, ....... n2 is (1) 18 (2) 24 (3) 22 (4) 21
11. If the mean and S.D. of n observations x1, x2,....xn
46n
, then n is equal to- are x and  resp, then the sum of squares of
11
observations is :-
(1) 11 (2) 12
(3) 23 (4) 22 (1) n (2 + x 2 ) (2) n ( 2 – x 2)

3. The weighted mean of first n natural numbers (3) n ( x 2 – 2 ) (4) None of these
whose weights are equal, is :- 12. The variance of observations 8, 12, 13, 15, 22, is
:-
n 1 2n  1
(1) (2) (1) 21 (2) 21.2
2 2
(3) 21.4 (4) None of these
2n  1 (2n  1) (n  1)
(3) (4) 13. If the mean of a set of observations x1, x2,......., x10
3 6
is 20, then the mean of x1+ 4, x2+ 8, x3+12,...,x10+ 40
4. The average age of a group of men and women is
is-
30years. If average age of men is 32 and that of (1) 34 (2) 42 (3) 38 (4) 40
women is 27, then the percentage of women in 14. The mean of values 0, 1, 2, ......, n when their
the group is- weights are 1, nC1, nC2, .... , nCn , resp., is
(1) 60 (2) 50
2n n 1 2 n 1 n
(3) 40 (4) 30 (1) (2) (3) (4)
n 1 2 n(n  1) 2
5. The geometric mean of the observations 2, 4, 8, 15. The G.M. of first n natural numbers is :-
16, 32, 64 is-
n 1
(1) 25/2 (2) 27/2 (1) (2) (n!)n
2
(3) 33 (4) None of these (3) (n!)1/n (4) None of these
6. The H.M. of the reciprocal of first n natural 7
16. If a variable takes the discrete values  + 4,  – ,
numbers is :- 2
5 1 1
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n 1 n – ,  – 3,  – 2,  + ,  – ,  + 5( > 0),
(1) (2) 1 1 1 2 2 2
2  then the median of these values-
 1    ....  
2 3 n
5 1
2 (1)   (2)  
4 2
(3) (4) None of these
n 1 5
7. Product of n positive numbers is unit. The sum of (3)  – 2 (4)  
4
these numbers can not be less than- 17. The S.D. of first n odd natural numbers is :-
(1) 1 (2) n
n2  1 n2  1
(3) n 2
(4) none of these (1) (2)
2 3
8. The A.M. of first n terms of the series
1.3.5, 3.5.7, 5.7.9,....., is-
n2  1 n2  1
(1) 3n3 + 6n2 + 7n – 1 (2) n3 + 8n2 + 7n – 1 (3) (4)
6 12
3 2
(3) 2n + 8n – 7n – 2 (4) 2n3 + 8n2 + 7n – 2

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18. If the sum and sum of squares of 10 observations 27. The S.D. of the following freq. dist. :-
are 12 and 18 resp., then, The S.D. of observations
Class 0  10 10  20 20  30 30  40
is :-
fi 1 3 4 2
1 2 3 4 (1) 7.8 (2) 9
(1) (2) (3) (4)
5 5 5 5 (3) 8.1 (4) 0.9
19. The mean of n values of a distribution is x . If its 28. The mean of a dist. is 4. if its coefficient of variation
first value is increased by 1 , second by 2, .... then is 58%. Then the S.D. of the dist. is :-
the mean of new values will be- (1) 2.23 (2) 3.23
(1) x  n (2) x  n / 2 (3) 2.32 (4) None of these
 n 1  29. The mean of a set of observations is x . If each
(3) x +   (4) None of these observation is divided by , (  0) and then is
 2 
increased by 10, then the mean of the new set is
20. The mean of the series x1, x2, ....., xn is X . If x2 is
x x  10
replaced by , then the new mean is- (1) (2)
 
X  x2   nX  x 2   x  10  x  10
(1) (2) (3) (4)
n n  

(n  1)X   nX  x 2   30. The average age of a teacher and three students is

(3) (4)
n n 20 years. If all students are of equal age and the
21. Let G1 and G2 be the geometric means of two series difference between the age of the teacher and that
x1, x2, ......, xn and y1, y2 ..... yn respectively. If G is of a student is 20 years, then the age of the teacher
the geometric mean of series xi/yi, i = 1, 2,..., n, is-
then G is equal to-
(1) 25 years (2) 30 years
(1) G1 – G2 (2) log G1/log G2
(3) log (G1/G2) (4) G 1/G 2 (3) 35 years (4) 45 years
22. The mean deviation of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 31. If a , b, c are any three positive numbers, then the
is- 1 1 1 
(1) 0 (2) 1.2 least value of (a + b+ c)     is-
a b c
(3) 2 (4) 1.4
(1) 3 (2) 6
23. If mean = (3 median – mode) x, then the value of x
is- (3) 9 (4) None of these
2n 2n 2n
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 1/2 (4) 3/2 32. Median of C0, C 1, C2 ,....,2nC n
24. A man spends equal ammount on purchasing three (when n is even) is-
kinds of pens at the rate 5 Rs/pen, 10 Rs/pen, 2n
(1) C n 1 (2)
2n
Cn
20 Rs/pen, then average cost of one pen is :-
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2 2
35 2n
(1) 10 Rs (2) Rs (3) C n 1 (4) None of these
3
2
60 33. The mean deviation from mean of observations
(3) Rs (4) None of these
7 5, 10, 15, 20, .........85 is :-
25. The median of 21 observation is 40. if each
observations greater than the median are increased (1) 43.71 (2) 21.17
by 6, then the median of the observations will be-
(3) 38.7 (4) None of these
(1) 40 (2) 46
(3) 46 + 40/21 (4) 46 – 40/21 34. If standard deviation of variate xi is 10, then variance
26. The coefficient of range of the following distribution of the variate ( 50 + 5xi) will be-
10, 14, 11, 9, 8, 12, 6 (1) 50 (2) 250
(1) 0.4 (2) 2.5 (3) 500 (4) 2500
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35. The S.D. of the numbers 31, 32, 33, .... 47 is- 39. The median of 19 observations of a group is 30. If
two observations with values 8 and 32 are further
(1) 2 6 (2) 4 3
included, then the median of the new group of
21 observation will be
47 2  1
(3) (4) None of these (1) 28 (2) 30
12
(3) 32 (4) 34
36. The sum of the squares of deviation of 40. The coefficient of mean deviation from median of
10 observations from their mean 50 is 250, then observations 40, 62, 54, 90, 68, 76 is :-
coefficient of variation is- (1) 2.16 (2) 0.2
(1) 10% (2) 40% (3) 5 (4) None of these
(3) 50% (4) None of these 41. A group of 10 observations has mean 5 and S.D.
37. The median and standard deviation (S.D.) of a 2 6 . another group of 20 observations has mean
distribution will be, If each term is increased by 2 -
5 and S.D. 3 2 , then the S.D. of combined group
(1) median and S.D. will increased by 2
of 30 observations is :-
(2) median will increased by 2 but S.D. will remain
same (1) 5 (2) 2 5
(3) median will remain same but S.D. will increased (3) 3 5 (4) None of these
by 2
42. For the values x 1 , x 2 ...... x 101 of a distribution
(4) median and S.D. will remain same x1 < x2 < x3 < ..... < x100 < x101 . The mean deviation
38. If X 1 and X 2 are the means of two series such of this distribution with respect to a number k will
be minimum when k is equal to-
that X 1 < X 2 and X is the mean of the combined (1) x1 (2) x51
series, then-
x 1  x 2  .....  x 101
(1) X < X 1 (2) X > X 2 (3) x50 (4)
101
43. In any discrete series (when all the value are not
X  X2 same) the relationship between M.D. about mean
(3) X 1 < X < X 2 (4) X = 1
2 and S.D. is-
(1) M.D. = S.D. (2) M.D. > S.D.
(3) M.D. < S.D. (4) M.D.  S.D.

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Que. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Ans. 2 1 1 3 2 3 2 4 2 3 1 2 2 4 3 1 2 3 3 4
Que. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
Ans. 4 2 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 4 1 1 2 3 2 2
Que. 41 42 43
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PREVIOUS YEAR QUESTIONS STATISTICS EXERCISE-III

1. The mean of Mathematics marks of 100 students 8. If in a frequency distribution, the mean and median
of a class is 72. If the number of boys is 70 and the are 21 and 22 respectively, then its mode is
mean of their marks is 75. Then the mean of the approximately - [AIEEE-2005]

marks of girls in the class will be- [AIEEE-2002]

(1) 24.0 (2) 25.5
(3) 20.5 (4) 22.0
(1) 60 (2) 62 (3) 65 (4) 68
9. Let x 1 , x 2 ,.......,x n be n observations such that
2. In an experiment with 15 observations of x, the
2
following results were available x 2 = 2830, x i  400 and  x i  80 . Then a possible
x = 170. One observation that was 20 was found value of n among the following is- [AIEEE-2005]
to be wrong and it was replaced by it's correct value (1) 12 (2) 9 (3) 18 (4) 15
30. Then the corrected variance is- [AIEEE-2003] 10. Suppose a polulation A has 100 observations 101,
(1) 8.33 (2) 78 (3) 188.66 (4) 177.33 102, ..... 200 and other polulation B has 100
3. The mean and variance of a random variable X observations 151, 152, ..... 250. If V A and V B
having a binomial distribution are 4 and 2 represent the variance of two population
respectively. Then P(X = 1) is- [AIEEE-2003]
VA
respectively then is- [AIEEE-2006]
1 1 1 1 VB
(1) (2) (3) (4)
4 32 16 8 (1) 9/4 (2) 4/9 (3) 2/3 (4) 1
4. The median of a set of 9 distinct observations is 11. The average marks of boys in a class 52 and that
20.5. If each of the largest four observations of of girls is 42. The average marks of boys and girls
the set is increased by 2, then the median of the combined is 50 then the parcentage of boys in the
new set- [AIEEE-2003] class is- [AIEEE-2007]
(1) 20 (2) 80 (3) 60 (4) 40
(1) remains the same as that of the original set
12. The mean of the numbers a, b, 8, 5, 10 is 6 and
(2) is increased by 2
the variance is 6.80 then which one of the following
(3) is decreased by 2 gives possible values of a and b ? [AIEEE-2008]
(4) is two times the original median (1) a = 0, b = 7 (2) a = 5, b = 2
5. Consider the following statements- [AIEEE-2004] (3) a = 1, b = 6 (4) a = 3, b = 4
(a) Mode can be computed from histogram 13. Statement–1 :
The variance of first n even natural numbers is
(b) median is not independent of change of scale
(c) variance is independent of change of origin and scale n2  1
.
which of these are correct- 4
(1) only (a) and (b) (2) only (b) Statement–2 :
(3) only (a) (4) (a), (b) and (c)
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6. In a series of 2n observations, half of them equal a The sum of first n natural numbers is and
2
and remaining half equal –a. If the standard
deviation of the observations is 2, then |a| equals- the sum of squares of first n natural numbers is
[AIEEE-2004] n (n  1) (2 n  1)
. [AIEEE-2009]
6
1 2
(1) 2 (2) 2 (3) (4) (1) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is false.
n n
(2) Statement–1 is false, Statement–2 is true.
7. The mean and the variance of a binomial (3) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is true ;
distribution are 4 and 2 respectively. Then the Statement–2 is a correct explanation for
probability of 2 sucesses is- [AIEEE-2004] Statement–1.
(4) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is true ;
128 219 37 28
(1) (2) (3) (4) Statement–2 is not a correct explanation for
256 256 256 256
statement–1.
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14. If the mean deviation of the numbers 18. Let x 1, x 2 , .... , x n be n observations, and let x
1, 1 + d, 1 + 2d, ......, 1 + 100d from their mean be their arithmetic mean and 2 be their variance.
is 255, then that d is equal to :- [AIEEE-2009] Statement–1 : Variance of 2x 1 , 2x 2 , ..... , 2x n
(1) 10.1 (2) 20.2 (3) 10.0 (4) 20.0 is 4 2 .
15. For two data sets each of size is 5, the variances Statement–2 : Arithmetic mean of
are given to be 4 and 5 and the corresponding 2x 1, 2x 2 , .... , 2x n is 4 x . [AIEEE-2012]
measn are given to be 2 and 4 respectively, then
(1) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is false.
the variance of the combined data set is :-
(2) Statement–1 is false, Statement–2 is true.
[AIEEE-2010]
(3) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is true ;
5 11 13 Statement–2 is a correct explanation for
(1) (2) (3) 6 (4)
2 2 2 Statement–1.
16. If the mean deviation about the median of the (4) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is true ;
numbers a, 2a, .........., 50a is 50, then |a| equals:- Statement–2 is not a correct explanation for
[AIEEE-2011] Statement–1.
(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 2 (4) 3
17. A scientist is weighing each of 30 fishes. Their
mean weight worked out is 30 gm and a standard
deviation of 2 gm. Later, it was found that the
measuring scale was misaligned and always under
reported every fish weight by 2 gm. The correct
mean and standard deviation (in gm) of fishes are
respectively : [AIEEE-2011]

(1) 28, 4 (2) 32, 2 (3) 32, 4 (4) 28, 2

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