Measures of Central Tendency

1. Wyatt Ltd gives the time taken by 60 workers to turn out one unit.
Time Taken/unit No. of workers
Less than 6 sec 0
Less than 10 sec 1
Less than 14 sec 8
Less than 18 sec 22
Less than 22 sec 39
Less than 26 sec 50
Less than 30 sec 60
a) Compute the average time taken to produce one unit. (20 sec)
b) The company has received an order to deliver 75 units in the next 3 minutes. If 8 workers, who have
taken exactly the average time to produce one unit, team up, will they be able to meet the order?
(No. They will fall short by 3 units)

2. A person purchases 5 rolls of wire each measuring 60 mtrs at the rate of 4, 6, 10, 12, and 15 mtrs per
Re respectively. What is the average price per meter of wire? (0.13 rs/m)
3. A garments manufacturer wants to take a decision regarding the size of a shirt he is planning to mass
produce. He knows that if he produces that size around which most people buy, he can maximize his
profit. In a recent sample study, he has got data regarding the following shirt sizes.
Shirt Size: 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
No. of customers: 6 9 4 2 10 8 7 5 1 3
Which shirt size should he produce? (25)
4. A car covered a distance of 50 kmph thrice. The first time, the driver traveled at 50 kmph, the second
time at 30 kmph, and the third time at 40 kmph. Calculate the average speed. (38.3 kmph)
5. Calculate mode if mean is 49.26 and median is 49.52 (50.04)
6. On the eve of the Republic day celebrations, the jail superintendent has decided to free some
prisoners as part of amnesty given on the occasion. He has collected the following information in this
regard:
Prison Duration No. of prisoners
18 years or more 7
15 years or more 20
10 years or more 45
5 years or more 69
2 years or more 94
1 year or more 100
a) What is the prison duration, if 20% of the prisoners comprising those who have served the longest
prison term, must be freed? (15)
b) If all prisoners who have served at least 17 years of prison duration must be freed, how many
prisoners will be freed? (11)
c) If 50% of the longest serving prisoners must be freed, what must be prison duration? (9 years 4 ½
months)
d) If 10% of the prisoners who have served the shortest prison term must be freed, then what must be
the prison duration? (2.48 years)
7. The price of a stock increases by 5% and 6% in the first two months, decreases by 7% in the third
month and increases by 1% and 2% in the next two months. What is the average price increase or
decrease of the stock over the five months? (1.29% increase)
8. The mean annual salary paid to 1000 employees of a company was Rs 5000. The mean annual salary
paid to male and female employees were Rs 5200 and Rs 4200 respectively. Determine the percentage
of males and females employed. (80 and 20)
9. Calculate the median and mode (by grouping method) from the following data:
Mid-point : 15 25 35 45 55 65 75 85
Frequencies : 5 9 13 21 20 15 8 3 (49.52 and 50.06)

10. During a period of decline in stock market prices, a stock sold at Rs 50 per share on one day, Rs 40 on
the next day and Rs 25 on the third.
a) If an investor bought 100, 120 and 180 shares on the respective three days, find the average price
paid per share. (35.75 rs/share)
b) If an investor bought Rs 1000 worth of shares on each of the three days, find the average price paid
per share. (35.29 rs/share)
11. Today, more people work from their home. Following is a sample of age data for home workers:
22 58 24 50 29 52 57 31 30 41 44 40 46 29 31 37 32 44 49 29
a) Compute modal age.
b) The median age of the population of all adults is 35.1 years. Calculate the median age for the above
sample and comment on whether the home workers in the sample tend to be younger or older
than the population of all adults.
c) Compute the 30th percentile and interpret.
12. From the following table, calculate mean yield, median yield and modal yield.
Yield in kgs No. of plots
Over 0 216
Over 60 210 Also calculate:
Over 120 156
Over 180 98 1. What percentage of plots
Over 240 57 yield more than 350 kgs?
Over 300 31 2. What is the total yield of
Over 360 13 the 15 highest yielding
Over 420 7 plots?
Over 480 2
Upto 540 216 (189.44, 169.65, 131.42, 7.41%, 6270)

13. If the price of a commodity doubles in a period of six years, what is the average percentage increase
per year? (12.25%)
14. 10 % of the workers in a firm employing a total of 1000 workers earn less than Rs 5 per day, 200 earn
between Rs 5 and 9.99, 30% between 10 and 14.99, 250 workers between 15 and 19.99 and the rest
20 and above. What is the median wage? (13.33)