IMPORTANT

QUESTIONS
Chapter-1
Introduction – Meaning and Scope
1. Mention the Characteristics of Statistics.

2. What are the functions of Statistics?

3. What are the limitations of statistics?

4. Mention the Scope and application of Statistics.

Chapter-2
Organization of data
5. Explain the stages of statistical enquiry

6. Explain the types of collection of Primary data.

7. What are the guidelines for the construction of a questionnaire?

8. Distinguish between Census enumeration and sample survey.

9. Briefly explain the three methods of sampling.

Chapter-3
Classification and Tabulation of data
10. What is classification? Explain the types of classification.

11. What is Tabulation? What are the General rules to the tabulation?
12. The number of doctors serving in forty different hospitals were recorded as below:

6 7 5 7 6 3 9 8 6 7 5 7 6 8 5 8 5 9 5 6

5 9 6 6 4 4 7 5 5 8 5 3 3 8 4 4 3 4 4 3

Prepare a suitable frequency distribution table.

13. Following is the data regarding the I.Q. of 30 children of a school

106 118 112 120 103 105 99 139 65 113 108 116 93 100 120

100 108 100 112 110 109 117 98 103 99 110 95 101 105 98

Prepare a frequency distribution with class intervals: less than or equal to 90, 90 -110,110-120,
more than or equal to 120.

14. Prepare a blank table to show the distribution of population of a village according to

i. Sex : men, women

ii. Age group : Below 18 years, 18-30 years and 30years & above

iii. Marital status : married and single

15. Prepare a blank table to show the students of a college according to

i. Sex : girls , boys

ii. Faculty : arts, commerce & science

iii. Years : 2008, 2009 , 2009

16. Tabulate the following data about the coffee drinking habit in two towns A and B

Town A Town B

55% were males 52% were males

28% were coffee drinkers 25% were coffee drinkers

18% were male coffee drinkers 16% were male coffee drinkers
 Chapter – 4
Diagrammatic and Graphical
representation of data

17. The production of wheat and rice of a region are given below:

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Productio Wheat 12 15 18 19 22 26
n
Rice 25 30 32 36 40 45
(in metric
tons)

Draw a Multiple bar diagram to represent the data.

18. Following is the data regarding the strength of students of a university during 2008-2010.
Construct a component bar diagram.

Years Faculty

Arts Science commerce Engineering Medical

2008 200 150 50 30 20

2009 250 200 80 50 40

2010 300 250 100 80 50

19. The following data relates to the monthly expenditure(in Rs) of two families A and B

Items Expenditure(in Rs)

Family A Family B

Food 2000 2500

Clothing 1000 2000

Rent 800 1000

Light and Fuel 400 500

Miscellaneous 800 2000

Represent the data by a rectangular diagram on percentage basis.

20. Percentage breakup of the cost of construction of a house in Bangalore is given below:

Labour: 20%, Bricks: 12%, Cement :20%, Steel : 15%, Wood : 13%, Supervision : 15%, Other
expenses : 5%. Construct a pie diagram.

21. Draw a Histogram and obtain mode from the following data.

C-I 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60

Frequency 10 15 40 30 16

22. Draw ogives for the following data and measure the value of median.

C- I 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

Frequency 5 11 21 16 10
 Chapter- 5
Analysis of Univariate data
Measures of central tendency

23. Compute AM, GM, HM, median and mode for the following data

10,25,30,40,45,50,55,60

24. Compute AM, GM, HM, median and mode for the following data

X 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

F 3 8 10 12 16 14 10 8 7

25. Compute AM, GM, HM, median and mode for the following data

C-I 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100- 120- 140- 160- 180-
120 140 160 180 200

F 6 9 11 14 20 15 10 8 7

26. Find mean ,median and mode for the following data

Hourly Less < 20 < 30 < 40 < 50 < 60 < 70 < 80

wages than 10

Number 2 15 60 82 95 122 140 150

of
employee
s

27. For the following distribution if 𝑋=45, find the missing frequency.

C-I 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

F 5 8 7 - 28 20 10 10
28. An incomplete distribution is given below. If median is 39, find the missing frequency.

C-I 15- 20- 25- 30- 35- 40- 45- 50- 55- 60- 65-
19 24 29 34 39 44 49 54 59 64 69

F 6 4 12 10 - 11 9 10 5 4 1

29. The mode for the following distribution is 26. Find the missing frequency.

C-I 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

F 3 5 - 6 4

30. The mean age of a group of 100 children was 9.35years. The mean age of 25 of them was
8.75 years and that of another 65 of them was 10.51years.What is the mean age of the
remaining children?

31.The AM of 50 observations was 100. At the time of calculations, one value was wrongly taken
as 100 instead of 180.Find the correct mean.

32.In a certain factory, a unit of work is completed by A in 5 minutes, by B in 6 minutes, by C in

8minutes, by D in 9 minutes and by E in 12 minutes. Find the average time to complete the unit
of work?

33. A cyclist covers his first two miles at a speed of 5 miles per hour, another two miles at 4
miles per hour and last two miles at 3 miles per hour. Find the average speed for entire journey.

Partition Values

34.Find 2 nd quartile, 6 th decile and 60 th percentile from the following data

38,7,43,20,15,12,18,11

35. Find 3 rd Quartile, 8 th Decile, and 25 th Percentile for the following data

X 600 800 1000 1200 1400

F 5 11 26 10 8

36. Find 1 st Quartile, 7 th Decile and 75 th Percentile for the following data

C-I 0-15 15-30 30-45 45-60 60-75 75-90 90-105

F 20 30 30 35 45 15 5
Measures of Dispersion

37. Calculate inter quartile range, semi- inter quartile range and its coefficient for the following
data

11,15,16,9,14,19,10,12,8,17,20,23,22

38. Compute coefficient of Q.D. from the data given below

X 2 4 6 8 10 12

F 3 5 10 12 6 4

39. Calculate an appropriate measure of dispersion from the following data

Wages(Rs) < 25 < 30 < 35 <40 <45 <50

No. of 10 25 75 130 170 189

workers

40. Compute MD( 𝑋), MD(M), MD(Z) from the following data

40,85,100,15,5,70,65

41. Compute MD( 𝑋), MD(M), MD(Z) from the following data

X 5 15 25 35 45 55 65

F 8 12 10 8 3 2 7

42. Compute MD( 𝑋), MD(M), MD(Z) from the following data

C-I 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

F 5 8 12 8 5

43. Find Standard deviation of the following data

25,50,45,30,70,42,36,48,34,60

44. Calculate standard deviation for the following distribution

X 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

F 6 12 15 28 29 14 15
45. Find Standard deviation & variance from the following data

C-I 0-6 6-12 12-18 18-24 24-30 30-36 36-42

F 19 25 36 72 51 43 28

46. The means of 2 samples of sizes 50 and 100 are 54.1 & 50.3 respectively and the standard
deviations are 8 & 7. Obtain the standard deviation of the combined sample.

47. The number of runs scored by two batsmen A and B in different innings is as follows:

A 12 115 6 73 7 19 119 36 84 29 50

B 47 12 76 42 4 51 37 48 13 0 75

Who is the better run scorer? Who is more consistent?

48.Following is the distribution of Weights of students. Compare their coefficient of variations.

Weights(Kg) 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70

Number of Class A 7 10 20 18 7
students
Class B 5 9 21 15 6

Measures of Skewness

49. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of Skewness from the data given below

X 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

F 1 5 12 22 17 9 4

50. Compute Bowley’s coefficient of Skewness for the following distribution

X 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65

F 10 18 30 42 35 28 16 8
51.Compute Karl-pearson’s coefficient of skewness for the following distribution

Wages(R 70-80 80-90 90-100 100- 110- 120- 130- 140-

s) 110 120 130 140 150

Number 12 18 35 42 50 45 20 8
of
persons

52.Compute Bowley’s co-effficient of Skewness for the following distribution.

Age(years 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

)

Number 18 16 15 12 10 7 3 1
of
persons

Chapter-6
Analysis of Bivariate Data
Correlation

53.Calculate Pearson’s coefficient of correlation between price and supply from the following
data.

Price(Rs) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Supply(Kg 30 29 29 25 24 24 24 22 18 15
)

54. Two judges have ranked 12 students as follows.

Student A B C D E F G H I J K L
s

Rank by 5 2 4 1 8 9 10 6 3 11 7 12
judge 1

Rank by 6 9 7 10 1 2 4 12 3 5 11 8
judge 2

Calculate rank correlation coefficient.

55.From the following marks obtained by the students in accountancy and statistics papers,
compute rank coefficient of correlation.

Students A B C D E F G H

Marks in 15 20 28 12 40 60 20 80
Accountan
cy

Marks in 40 30 50 30 20 10 30 60
Statistics

56. Family income and its percentage spent on food in the case of 100 families gave the
following bivariate frequency distribution. Calculate the coefficient of correlation.

Food Family income (in ‘000Rs)

expenditure(
%) 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70

10-15 - - - 3 7

15-20 - 4 9 4 3

20-25 7 6 12 5 -

25-30 3 10 19 8 -

Regression

57.From the following data , find the two regression equations

X 1 2 3 4 5

Y 2 3 4 5 6

Also find the most probable value of y when x = 2.5.

58. you are given the following data

x y

A.M 36 85

S.D 11 8

Correlation coefficient between x and y is 0.66

i. Find the two regression equations.

ii. Estimate the value of x when y=75

iii. Estimate the value of y when x= 90

59. Given the following data

Variance of x = 9

Regression equation of y on x : 4x-5y+33=0

Regression equation of x on y : 20x-9y-107=0

Find

i. The mean values of x and y

ii. The coefficient of correlation between x and y

iii. The SD of y

Chapter – 7

Association of Attributes
60. Find Yule’s coefficient of association from the following data

Smokers Non-smokers

Drinkers 260 90

Non- drinkers 40 60

61. Prepare a 2 X 2 contingeny table from the following information. Also calculate Yule’s
coefficient of association and interpret the result.

N=1500, (α) = 1117, (B) = 360 , (AB) = 35

62. In a co-education institution out of 200 students, 150 were boys. They wrote an examination
and it was found that 120 were passed. 10 girls failed. Is there any association between sex and
success in examination?

Chapter – 8
Interpolation and Extrapolation

63. Using the binomial expansion method of interpolation find the probable production for the
year 2004.

Year 2000 2002 2004 2006

Value 103 107 - 157

64. Interpolate the missing figure in the following table with the help of suitable formula.

Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Value 200 225 250 270 - 295

65. Extrapolate the population of a city for the year 2010.

Year 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Population(lakh 4 4.2 4.3 4.5 4.8 -

s)

Chapter – 9
Probability Theory

66. A die is thrown once, what is the probability of getting a

i. Multiple of 3

ii. Non- multiple of 3

67. In a firm, 40% of the employees are women and 60% are men. Among them , it is found that
1/8 th of the women and 1/10 th of the men wear spectacles. Find the probability that a randomly
selected person is :

i. A man or a person wearing spectacles

ii. A woman or a man wearing spectacles.

68. A box contains 5 red and 3 blue balls. Two balls are drawn from this box. What is the
probability that they are of the same colour?

69.The first box contains 3 white, 2 black balls.The second box contains 2 white, 4 black balls. A
ball is transferred from the first box to the second box and then a ball is drawn from the second
box. What is the probability that it is white in colour?

Chapter – 10
Random Variable
70. A bag contains 6 tickets numbered 1 to 6. A person draws two tickets at random. If the sum
of the numbers on the tickets drawn is even, he gets Rs.10, otherwise he loses Rs.5.Show that
the expectation of his gain is Re.1.

71. Calculate E(X+4) for the following probability distribution

X 10 15 20 25

P(x) 1/6 1/6 2/6 2/6

72. In a bivariate data E(X)=4, E(Y)=10, E(𝑋2 ) = 25, E(𝑌 2)=136 & E(XY)=20. Find Var(X), Var(Y),
SD(X), Cov(XY), Var(4X) and γ

73.From the following bivariate data of X and Y find

i. K
ii. E(2X+3Y)

iii. Cov(X,Y)

iv. Coefficient of correlation between X and Y

X y 0 10 20

1 0 0.1 0.1
2 0.1 0.2 0.1

3 0.2 k 0.1