MIND SPARK ACADEMY

TEST ON CORRELATION AND REGRESSION

MARKS: 30 TIME: 40 MINS
Q. 1 If for two variables x and y, the covariance, variance of x and variance of y are 30, 25 and 36
respectively, what is the value of correlation coefficient?
a) 0.5 b) 1 c) 2 d) None

Q. 2 If the sum of squares of differences of ranks given by two judges is 48 for 7 students then find the value
of correlation coefficient?
a) 0.2 b) 0.8 c) 0.16 d) 0.5

Q.3 For 12 pairs of observations, No. of concurrent deviations was found to be 8. Find rC
a) -0.45 b) 0.67 c)0.61 d) None

Q.4 If regression equation of y on x and x on y are given by 3x + 2y = -1 and 6x + 7y = 1 then find 𝐱 and 𝐲
a) -7/3 and -3 b) -7/3 and 3 c) 1 and -1 d) -1 and 1

Q.5 Given the regression equations as x + 4y = 10 and 2x + 3y = 20 find which one is x on y

a) 1st equation b) 2nd equation c) Both d) None

Q.6 What is the coefficient of correlation for the following data?

X: 1 2 3 4 5
Y: 7 10 8 5 9
a) 0.075 b) -0.023 c) -0.851 d) 0.082

Q.7 For two variables x and y it is known that cov (x,y) = 16, r = 0.8, variance of x is 25 and number of
observations is 8. Find the sum of squares of deviation of y from its mean
a) 25 b) 50 c) 100 d) 128

Q.8 Ranks of 8 contestants are given below. Find the rank correlation coefficient
Judge A: 8 6 2 4 5 3 1 7
Judge B: 5 4 6 3 8 2 1 7
a) 0.65 b) 0.52 c) 0.60 d) 0.75

Q.9 The two lines of regression are given by 8x + 10y = 25 and 16x + 5y = 12. If var(x) = 121, Find SDy
a) 17.6 b) 18 c) 64 d) None

Q.10 The coefficient of correlation between X and Y is 0.6. U and V are two variables defined as
U = (x – 3)/2 and V = (y – 2)/3 then coefficient of correlation between U and V is:
a) 0.6 b) 0.4 c) 0.8 d) -0.6

Q.11The 𝒓𝑹 of marks of 9 students was found to be 0.75. It was later discovered that the difference in rank
of one student was wrongly taken as 8 instead of 6. Find correct rank correlation coefficient
a) 0.22 b) 0.58 c) 0.98 d) 0.71

Q.12 Find the coefficient of correlation between x and y from the following data
X Y
Number of pairs of observations 20 20
AM 25 20
SD 5 4
Sum of squares of deviations from mean 500 320
Sum of product of deviations of x and y from their mean = 180
a) 0.45 b) 0.65 c) 0.85 d) 1
Q.13 If coefficient of correlation between x and y is -0.56. unexplained variance.
a) 56% b) 31.36% c) 68.64% d) 44%

Q.14 In a bivariate frequency distribution if the two regression lines are at right angles then coefficient of
correlation will be
a) r = 1 b) r = -1 c) r = 0 d) None

Q.15 If mean of x = 54, mean of y = 27, byx = -1.5 and bxy = -0.2 the find the value of y if x = 60
a) 17.7 b) 18 c) 15 d) 16

Q.16 If the two regression lines are 3x + 5y = 26 and 6x + 12y = 31 then find r
a) -0.25 b) 0.5 c) -0.91 d) 0.25

Q.17 If SDx = 6 and SDy = 8 and rxy = 0.9 then regression coefficient of y on x is
a) 1.28 b) 1.2 c) 0.32 d) None

Q.18 The coefficient of correlation between two variables X and Y is the simple -------------- of the two
regression coefficients
a) AM b) GM c) HM d) None

Q.19 If mean of X and Y variables is 30 and 40 respectively and the regression coefficient of Y on X is 1.345
then regression line of Y on X is:
a) Y = 1.345X + 3 b) Y = 1.345X + 2.26 c) Y = 1.345X – 0.35 d) None

Q.20 If correlation coefficient between x and y is 1 then the two regression lines are
a) Perpendicular to each other b) Coincide c) Parallel to each other d) None

Q.21 X on Y is X – Y = 8 and Y on X is 6X - 5Y =24. Find mean of x and mean of y

a) 24 and 16 b) -24 and 16 c) 24 and -16 d) -24 and -16

Q.22 If coefficient of correlation between two variables is 0.9 then the percentage of explained variation
a) 81% b) 10% c) 19% d) None

Q.23 For a 5 x 5 bivariate frequency table, the maximum number of conditional distributionis
a) 5 b) 10 c) 25 d) 50

Q.24 If the value of correlation coefficient is positive then the points in the scatter diagram tend to
a) Cluster from upper right corner to lower left corner
b) Cluster from lower right corner to upper left corner
c) Cluster from lower left corner to upper right corner
d) None

Q.25 The following results were obtained from records of age (X) and blood pressure (Y) of a group of 10
women
X Y
Mean 53 142
Variance 130 165
Sum of product of deviations of x and y from their respective mean = 1500
Find the blood pressure of a woman whose age is 47
a) 136.6 b) 128.5 c) 130 d) 135

Q.26 Following data for advertisement and sales is given

Advertisement (X) Sales (Y)
 Arithmetic mean 15 100
Standard deviation 10 80
Correlation coefficient between X and Y is 0.8. Find the value of sales when advertisement is 20 Lakhs
a) 100 b) 106 c) 103 d) 95

Q.27 If byx> 1 then bxy is

a) > 1 b) < 1 c) > 0 d) Cannot be said

Q.28 Regression coefficients are affected by

a) Change of origin b) Change of scale c) Both d) None

Q.29 If the regression line of Y on X is given by Y = 2X + 15 and Karl Pearsons coefficient = 0.8 then find the
𝐕𝐚𝐫(𝐲)
value of 𝐕𝐚𝐫(𝐱)
a) 0.16 b) 2.5 c) 0.8 d) 6.25

Q.30 For a number of towns, the coefficient of rank correlation between the people living below the poverty
line and increase of population is 0.60. If the sum of squares of the differences in ranks awarded to these
factors is 48, find the number of towns.
a) 8 b) 9 c) 10 d) 11