Central Tendency & Dispersion
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If the variables $x$ and $z$ are so related that $z = ax + b$ for each where $a$ and $b$ are constant, then $\bar{z} = a\bar{x} + b$.
If the mean of the following distribution is $6$, then the value of $P$ is: $ \begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline $X$ & 2 & 4 & 6 & 10 & $P+5$ \\ \hline $F$ & 3 & 2 & 3 & 1 & 2 \\ \hline \end{array} $
There are $n$ numbers. When 50 is subtracted from each of these number the sum of the numbers so obtained is $-10$. When 46 is subtracted from each of the original $n$ numbers, then the sum of numbers so obtained is 70. What is the mean of the original $n$ numbers?
Which measure is suitable for open-end classification?
$50^{th}$ Percentile is equal to
Find the median of the following. Class: 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50; Freq: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
If each item is reduced by 15 A. M is
The average of a series of overlapping averages, each of which is based on a certain number of item within a series is know as.
The mean of 20 items of a data is 5 & if each item is multiplied by 3, then the new mean will be
The algebraic sum of the deviation of a set of values from their arithmetic mean is
Which one of the following is not a central tendency?
If total frequencies of three series are 50, 60 and 90 and their means are 12, 15 and 20 respectively, then the mean of their composite series is
The AM of 15 observation is 9 and the AM of first 9 observation is 11 and then AM of remaining observation is
$\sum (x_i - \bar{x})$ is equal to
The mean of '$n$' observation is '$x$'. If $k$ is added to each observation, then the new mean is.
If there are 3 observations 15, 20, 25 then sum of deviation of the observations from AM is
If average mark for a group of 30 girls is 80, a group of boys is 70 and combined average is 76, then how many are in the boy's group?
For a data having odd number of values, the difference between the first and the middle value is equal to the difference between the last and the middle value; similarly, the difference between the second and middle values is equal to that of second last and middle value so on. Therefore, the middle value is equal to
When each value does not have equal importance then we use
The mean of 20 observation is 38. If two observation are taken as 84 and 36 instead of 48 and 63 find new means.
The mean of 50 observations is 36. If two observations 30 and 42 are to be excluded, then the mean of the remaining observations will be:
The average age of 15 students in a class is 9 years. Out of them, the average age of 5 students is 13 years and that 5 students is 8 years. What is the average of remaining 2 students?
A Professor has given assignment to students in a Statistics class. A student Jagan computes the arithmetic mean and standard deviation for a set of 100 observations as 50 and 5 respectively. Later on, Sonali points out to Jagan that he has made of mistake in taking one observation as 100 instead of 50. What would be the correct mean if the wrong observation is corrected?
Find the mean of the following data Class Interval | Frequency 10-20 | 9 20-30 | 13 30-40 | 20 40-50 | 14 50-60 | 6 60-70 | 4 70-80 | 2
The mean of a set of 20 observations is 18.3. The mean is reduced by 0.6 when a new observation is added to the set. The new observation is:
If mean of 5 observations $x+1, x+3, x+5, x+7$ and $x+9$ is given 15, then the value of $x$ will be:
The mean of the first three terms is 17 and mean of next four terms is 21. Calculate the mean of seven terms.
If there are two groups containing 40 and 30 observations and have arithmetic means as 50 and 60, then the combined arithmetic mean is
The mean of group X is 70 and the mean of group Y is 85. If the number of observations in group Y is five times that of group X, then the combined mean of both the group is:
The mean salary for a group of for a group of 50 male workers is Rs.4800 per month and that for a group of 50 female workers is Rs. 5600. the combined mean salary is
The mean age of a group of 100 men and women is 25 years. If the mean age of the group of men is 26, then that of the group of women is 21 then the ratio of women and men in the group:
If the relationship between two variables $u$ and $v$ are given by $2u + 7v = 0$ and if the AM of $u$ is 10, then the AM of $v$ is
If there are 3 observations 15, 20, 25 then the sum of deviation of the observations from their AM is
The mean of the values of $1, 2, 3, \dots, n$ with respective frequencies $x, 2x, 3x, \dots, nx$ is.
The mean of four observations is 10 and when a constant a is added to each observation, the mean becomes 13. The value of a is
The average salary of a group of unskilled workers is Rs.10,000 and that of a group of skilled workers is Rs.15,000. If the combined salary is Rs.12,000, then what is the percentage of skilled workers?
The mean of first 3 terms is 14 and the mean of next 2 terms is 18. The mean of 5 numbers is
If the mean of the set of observations $x_1, x_2, x_3, \dots, x_n$ is $\bar{x}$, then the mean of the observation $x_i + ki$, where $i = 1, 2, 3, \dots, n$
The average of $n$ numbers is $x$. If each of the numbers is multiplied by $(n+1)$, then the average of new set of numbers is
The average weight of 8 person increases by 1.5 kg, if a person weighing 65 kg replaced by a new person, what would be the weight of the new person?
Two variables assume the values $1, 2, \dots, 5$ with frequencies as $1, 2, 3, \dots, 5$ then what is the AM?
The sum of the squares of deviations of a set of observations has the smallest value, when the deviations are taken from their:
Let the mean of the variable '$x$' be 50, then the mean of $u=10+5x$ will be.
If sum of squares of the values = 3390, N = 30 and standard deviation = 7, find out the mean.
Which of the following measures of central tendency cannot be calculated by graphical method?
The mean salary for a group of 40 female workers is 5000 per month and that for a group of 60 male workers is 6000 per month. What is the combined mean salary?
The mean of the variable $x$ is 50, then the mean of $u=10+5x$ will be
The sum of mean and SD of a series is $a+b$, if we add 2 to each observations of the series then the sum of the mean and SD is
At ABC Ltd, the average age of employees is 36. Average age of male employees is 38 and that of female is 32. Find the ratio of female to male in the company.
The mean height of girls in class in 162cm while for boys is 182cm. The ratio of no. of girls: boys is 1:2. Find the mean height of the whole class
The average of 10 observations is 14.4. If the average of first four observations is 16.5. The average of remaining 6 observations is:
Mean of 25,32,43,53,62,59,48,31,24,33 is
If the A.M of any distribution be 25 & one term is 18. Then the deviation of 18 from A.M is
The algebraic sum of the deviations of a frequency distribution from its mean is always,
Pooled Mean is also called
If average marks for a group of $30$ girls is $80$, a group of boys is $70$ and combined average is $76$, then how many boys are in the group ?
If there are three observations $15, 20, 25$, then the sum of deviation of the observations from their AM is.
The mean weight of $15$ students is $110$ kg. The mean weight of $5$ of them is $100$ kg, and of another five students is $125$ kg, then the mean weight of the remaining students is :
A batsman in his $20^{th}$ innings makes a score of $120$ and thereby increases his average by $5$. What is his average after $20^{th}$ innings?
The mean of first three terms is $14$ and mean of next two terms is $18$. The mean of all five terms is
In a group of persons, average weight is $60$ kg. If the average of males and females taken separately is $80$ kg and $50$ kg respectively, find the ratio of the number of males to that of females.
The mean of $100$ students was $45$. Later, it was discovered that the marks of two students were misread as $85$ and $54$ instead of $58$ and $45$. Find correct mean.
The AM of $15$ observations is $9$ and the AM of first $9$ observations is $11$ and then AM of remaining observations is:
The mean of $100$ observations is $50$. If one of the observations which was $50$ is replaced by $40$, the resulting mean will be:
The mean annual salary of all employees in a company is $25,000$. The mean salary of male and female employees is $27,000$ and $17,000$ respectively. Find the percentage of males and females employed by the company.
The average age of $15$ numbers in a class is $9$ years. Out of them, the average age of $5$ students is $13$ years and that of $8$ students is $5$ years. What is the average of remaining $2$ students?
The students of a class $10^{th}$ have an average weight of $50$ kg. The strength of the class is $49$ students. On including the weight of the principal, the average weight shoots up by $0.8$ kg. Find the weight of the principal?
The average of '$r$' consecutive numbers starting from $1$ is '$r$'. If $2$ is added to each of the number. Then the new average will be?
The average weight of $40$ people is increased by $2.4$ kg when one man weight $73$ kg is replaced by another man. Find the weight of the new man?
The average salary of the whole employees in a company is $400$ per day. The average salary of officers is $800$ per day and that of clerks is $320$ per day. If the number of officers is $40$, then find the number of clerks in the company?
The average of $6$ numbers is $30$. If the average of the first four is $25$ and that of the last three is $35$, the fourth number is
A student marks were wrongly entered as $85$ instead of $45$. Due to that the average marks for the whole class got increased by one-fourth. The no. of students in the class is?
Find the median of the following. Class: 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50; Freq: 5, 8, 15, 10, 2
The mean salary of a group of $50$ persons is Rs. $5850$. Later on it is discovered that the salary of one has been wrongly taken as Rs. $8000$ instead of Rs. $7500$. The corrected mean salary is
The algebraic sum of the deviations of set of values from their arithmetic mean is
The AM of $15$ observations is $9$ and the AM of first $9$ observations is $11$ and then AM of remaining observations is
The weighted mean of first $n$ natural numbers, if their weights are proportional to their corresponding numbers is
The average wages of a group of unexperienced labours is $1000$ and that of a group of experienced labours is $1,500$. If the combined wage is $1200$, then what is the percentage of experienced labours?
If the arithmetic mean of $1^{st}$ $n$ natural numbers is $\frac{6n}{11}$ then the value of '$n$' is:
The average age of a group of $10$ students was $20$ years. The average age is increased by two years when two new students joined the group. What is the average age of two new students who joined the group ?
There were $50$ students in a class. $10$ failed whose average marks were $2.5$. The total marks of class were $281$. Find the average marks of students who passed?
When $10$ is subtracted from all the observations, the mean is reduced to $60\%$ of its value. If $5$ is added to all the observations, then the mean will be
The mean salary for a group of $40$ female workers is $5200$ per month and that for a group of $60$ male workers is $6800$ per month. What is the combined salary ?
The mean weight of 15 students is 110 kg. The mean weight of 5 of them is 100 kg, and that of another five students is 125 kg., then the mean weight of the remaining students is:
$The average age of 15 students is 15 years. Out of these the average age of 5 students is 14 years and that of other 9 students is 16 years, then the age of 15th student is ____.$
The average of marks obtained by 120 students in a certain examination is 35. If the average marks of passed students is 39 and that of the failed students is 15, what is the number of students who passed in the examination?
The mean of the values of $1, 2, 3, \dots, n$ with respective frequencies $x, 2x, 3x, \dots, nx$ is
Two variables $x$ and $y$ are related by $5x + 2y + 5 = 0$ and $x = 10$. If $y$ is
The mean of first 3 terms is 14 and the mean of next 2 terms is 18. The mean of 5 numbers is -
The Mean of a set of 20 observations on 18.3. The mean is reduced by 0.6 when a new observation is added to the set. The new observation is:
The mean salary of a group of 50 persons is $₹5850$. Later on it is discovered that the salary of one has been wrongly taken as $₹8000$ instead of $₹7800$. The corrected mean salary is:
The algebraic sum of the deviations of set of values from their arithmetic mean is:
The AM of 15 observations is 9 and the AM of first 9 observations is 11 and then AM of remaining observations is
Which one of these is least affected by extreme value?
Ten matches data is given. Then which of the following cannot be found?
Which of the following measure does not possess mathematical properties?
The median value of the set of observations $48, 36, 72, 87, 19, 66, 56, 91$ is
Along a road there are 5 buildings of apartments, marked as $1, 2, 3, 4, 5$. Number of people residing in each building is available. A bus stop is to be setup near one of the buildings so that the total distance walked by the resident to the bus stop from their buildings must be kept minimum. One must consider investing ________ to find the position of the bus stop.
The $3^{rd}$ decile for the numbers $15, 10, 20, 25, 18, 11, 9, 12$ is
The relationship between two variables $x$ and $y$ is given by $4x - 10y = 20$. If the median value of the variable $x$ is 10 then what is median value of variable $y$?
For $899, 999, 391, 384, 390, 480, 485, 760, 111, 240$. Rank of median
The median of the data $5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18$, and $19$ is
Which of the following is positional average?
For the distribution, The value of median is x: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; f: 6, 9, 10, 14, 12, 8
The deviations are minimum taken from:
Mean deviation is minimum when deviations are taken from:
The median of the observations $42, 72, 35, 92, 67, 85, 72, 81, 51, 56$ is:
The median of the following set of observation: $24, 18, 36, 42, 30, 28, 21, 29, 25, 33$ is
For a given data set: $5, 10, 3, 6, 4, 8, 9, 3, 15, 2, 9, 4, 19, 11, 4$, what is the median?
The median of the following frequency distribution is x | f(x) 0-10 | 5 10-20 | 8 20-30 | 20 30-40 | 12 40-50 | 7
If two variable '$x$' and '$y$' are related as $2x - y = 3$. If the median of '$x$' is $10$, what is median of '$y$'?
Which of the following measure of central tendency will be unaffected if the lowest and highest observation are removed?
Which of the following measure of central tendency depends on the position of the observation?
The median of the following frequency distribution is: x | f(x) 0-10 | 8 10-20 | 30 20-30 | 40 30-40 | 12 40-50 | 10
For open-end classification, which of the following is the best measure of central tendency?
The presence of extreme observations does not affect
Quartiles are the values dividing a given set of observations into
What is the value of the first quartile for observations $15, 18, 10, 20, 23, 28, 12, 16$?
The third decile for the numbers $15, 10, 20, 25, 18, 11, 9, 12$ is
Two variables $x$ and $y$ are given by $y = 2x - 3$. If the median of $x$ is $20$, what is the median of $y$?
In case of an even number of observations which of the following is median?
Quartile can be determined graphically using
The point of intersection of less than ogive and greater than ogive curve is gives us
The median of data $13, 8, 11, 6, 4, 15, 2, 18$ is
Find $D_6$ for the following observations. $7, 9, 5, 4, 10, 15, 14, 18, 6, 20$
The median of $27, 30, 26, 44, 42, 51, 37$ is
The median value of the set of observations $48, 36, 72, 87, 19, 66, 56$ and $91$
The first Quartile is $142$ and Semi-inter Quartile Range is $18$, then the value of Median is:
Calculate the value of 3rd quartile from the following data $40, 35, 51, 21, 25, 16, 29, 27, 32$
For the distribution, calculate MedianX | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6F | 6 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 12 | 8
The relationship between two variable $x$ and $y$ is given by $4x - 10y = 20$. If the median value of the variable $x$ is $20$ then what is median value of variable $y$?
The median of the observations $42, 72, 35, 92, 67, 85, 72, 81, 51, 56$ is
The median of following numbers, which are given in ascending order is $x, 25, 30, 35, 39, 46, x+1, 13, 15, 19, (x+2), (x+4), 30, 35, 39, 46$.
The third decile for the numbers $35, 10, 20, 25, 18, 11, 12$ and $12$ is
If the relationship between $x$ and $y$ is $4x - 6y = 13$ & median of $x$ is $16$. Find median of $y$.
Find $Q_1$ for the following observations: $7,9,5,4,10,15,14,18,6,20$
The wages of $8$ workers expressed in rupees are $42,45,49,38,56,54,55,47$. Find median wage?
Find the mode of the following data:Class | 3-6 | 6-9 | 9-12 | 12-15 | 15-18 | 18-21Freq. | 2 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 21 | 12
Histogram is used to represent
Find the mode of the following:0-10 | 10-20 | 20-30 | 30-40 | 40-50 | 50-607 | 14 | 22 | 34 | 20 | 19
From the record on sizes of shoes sold in a shop, one can compute the following to determine the most preferred shoe size.
If $y = 3 + (4.5)x$ and the mode for $x$ - value is $20$, then the mode for $y$ - value is
If $y = 3 + 1.9x$, and mode of $x$ is $15$, then the mode of $y$ is:
Mean Deviation of data $3, 10, 10, 4, 7, 18, 5$ from mode is
One hundred participants expressed their opinion on recommending a new product to their friends using the attributes : most unlikely, not sure, likely, most likely. The appropriate measure of central tendency that can be used here is
The Geometric mean of $3, 6, 24$ and $48$ is
Expenditures of a company (in million rupees) per item in various yearsYear | Item of expenditure| Salary | Fuel & Bonus | Int on | Taxes| | Wages | | Loans || 1998 | 288 | 98 | 3.00 | 23.4 | 83| 1999 | 342 | 112 | 3.50 | 32.5 | 108| 2000 | 324 | 108 | 3.84 | 41.6 | 74| 2001 | 336 | 123 | 3.68 | 36.4 | 88| 2002 | 420 | 142 | 3.96 | 49.4 | 98What is the avg. interest per year which the company had to pay during this period?
If two variables $a$ and $b$ are related by $c = ab$ then G.M. of $c$ is equal to
Given the weights for the numbers $1, 2, 3, \dots, n$ are respectively $1^2, 2^2, 3^2, \dots, n^2$ then weighted HM is
The harmonic mean $A$ and $B$ is $1/3$ and harmonic mean of $C$ and $D$ is $1/5$. The harmonic mean of $ABCD$ is
A fire engine rushes to a place of fire accident with a speed of $110$ kmph and after the completion of operation returned to the base at a speed of $55$ kmph. The average speed per hour in per-direction is obtained as ________ speeds.
If there are two groups with $n_1$ and $n_2$ observations and $H_1$ and $H_2$ are respective harmonic means, then the harmonic mean of combined observation is
Find the mode of the following data:X | F(x)25-30 | 2030-35 | 5335-40 | 4240-45 | 4245-50 | 4150-55 | 43
Geometric Mean of $3, 7, 11, 15, 24, 28, 30, 0$ is
If the arithmetic mean of two numbers is $10$ and the geometric mean is $6$, then the difference in the numbers is
If two variables $a$ and $b$ are related by $c = ab$ then GM. of $c$ =
Geometric Mean of $8, 4, 2$ is
The geometric mean of the numbers $40, 50$, and $x$ is $10$, and the value of $x$ is
A man travels from Delhi to Agra at an average speed of $30 \text{km per hour}$ and back at an average speed of $60 \text{km per hour}$. What's the average speed.
If $x$ and $y$ are related by $x - y - 10 = 0$ and mode of $x$ is known to be $23$, then the mode of $y$ is
A person travels from A to B at the rate of $20 \text{ km/hr}$ and from B to A at the rate of $30 \text{ km/hr}$. What is the average rate of whole journey?
If there are two groups with $75$ and $65$ as harmonic means containing $15$ and $13$ observation, then combined HM is given by
The Geometric mean of the series $1, k, k^2, k^3, ..., k^n$ where $k$ is constant is
A man travels at a speed of $20 \text{km/hr}$ and then returns at a speed of $30 \text{km/hr}$. His average speed of the whole journey is:
G.M is a better measure than others when,
If there are two groups with $75$ and $65$ as harmonic means and containing $15$ and $13$ observations. Then the combined H.M. is given by:
If there are two groups with $75$ and $65$ as harmonic means and containing $15$ and $13$ observations, then the combined HM is given by
A train covered the first $5 \text{ km}$ of its journey at a speed of $30 \text{km/hr}$, and the next $15 \text{ km}$ at a speed of $45 \text{ km/hr}$. The average speed of the train was:
Mode is:
$A shopkeeper wants to place an order for t-shirts with the wholesaler based on past sales data. The size he orders will be decided by looking at the ________ of past sales data?$
The Harmonic mean H of two numbers is $4$ and their arithmetic means $A$ and the geometric mean $G$ satisfy eq. $2A + G^2 = 27$, the numbers are
The harmonic mean of $1, 1/2, 1/3, ..., 1/n$ is
The rate of returns from three different shares are $100\%, 200\%$ and $400\%$ respectively. The average rate of return will be.
Relation between mean, median and mode is
If in a moderately skewed distribution, the values of mode and mean are $32.1$ and $35.4$ respectively, then the value of the median is
In a moderately skewed distribution the values of mean & median are $12$ & $8$ respectively. The value of mode is
For a symmetric distribution
If the AM & GM of two numbers are $30$ and $24$ respectively. Find the no's.
If the AM and HM of two numbers are $6$ and $9$ respectively, then GM is
If the AM and GM for 10 observations are both 15, then the value of HM is
$For a moderately skewed distribution, the median is twice the mean, then mode is _times the median.$
Given that mean = 70.20 and mode = 70.50, the Median is expected to be.
If Mean ($X$) is = 10 and mode ($Z$) is = 7, then find out the value of median ($M$).
If Arithmetic Mean and Geometric Mean between two numbers are 5 and 4 respectively, then these two numbers are:
If Arithmetic mean between two numbers is 5 and Geometric mean is 4 then what is the value of Harmonic mean?
For a moderately skewed distribution of marks in statistics for a group of 200 students, the mean marks and median marks are 55.60 and 52.40, respectively. What are the modal marks?
If the mean of two numbers is 30 and geometric mean is 24, then what will be the Harmonic mean of two numbers?
The AM and HM of two numbers are 5 and 3.2 respectively, then GM will be:
If mode of a grouped data is 10 and median is 6, then what is the value of mean?
If A.M and G.M of two positive numbers $a$ and $b$ are 12 and 12, respectively, find the numbers
If the mean and median of a moderately asymmetrical series are 26.8 and 27.9 respectively, then the most probable mode is:
If Mean of a data set is 22 and Median is 22.33 then Mode is
$According to the empirical rule, if the data form a "bell-shaped" distribution, then the maximum and minimum frequencies occur at ______ and ______ respectively.$
If the mean and median of a moderately asymmetrical series are 70.8 and 68.6 respectively, then the most probable mode is:
For a moderately-skewed distribution, which of the following relationship holds?
$If the arithmetic mean between two numbers is 64 and the Geometric Mean between them is 16. The Harmonic mean between them is ______.$
$When the mean is 3.57 and mode is 2.13, then the value of median is ______.$
The relationship between AM, GM, and Median
Relationship between AM, GM, and HM
For a moderately skewed distribution, which is true
Which of the following results hold for a set of distinct positive observations?
For a moderately skewed distribution, which of the following relationship holds?
If the A.M. and H.M. for two numbers are 5 and 3.2 respectively then the G.M. will be:
Which of the following statements is true?
When mean is 3.57 and mode is 2.13 then the value of the median is
The A.M and H.M for two numbers are 5 and 3.2 respectively then the G.M will be
Which of the following is not a criteria for ideal measure of central tendency?
If the rates return from three different shares are $100\%$, $200\%$ and $400\%$ respectively. The average rate of return will be.
Find the two numbers if AM and GM is $10$ and $6$ respectively.
$For moderately skewed distribution, the median is twice the mean, then mode is \_ times the median.$
Which of the following is the correct relation between mean, median and mode
If the mode of a data is $18$ and mean is $24$, then median is
For a moderately skewed distribution, which of the following relationship is correct
The mode of data is $18$ and mean is $24$, then median is
Find the numbers whose GM is $5$ and AM is $7.5$:
If the difference between mean and mode is $69$, then the difference between Mean and Median will be _______.
Which of the following result hold for a set of distinct positive observations?
$______ & ______ are called ratio averages:$
The Arithmetic Mean between two numbers is $15$ and their G.M. is $9$; then the numbers are $-$
If the arithmetic mean between two numbers is $64$ and the Geometric Mean between them is $16$. The Harmonic mean between them is
When the mean is $3.57$ and mode is $2.13$, then the value of median is _______.
The HM, $H$ of two numbers is $4$ and their AM, $A$ and the GM, $G$ satisfy the equation $2A+G^2=27$, the numbers are:
If the range of a set of values is $65$ and maximum value in the set is $83$, then the minimum value in the set is
Difference between upper limit and lower limit of a class is known as.
The relationship between P-series and Q-series is given by $2P - 3Q - 10 = 0$. If the range of P-series is $18$. What would be the range of Q?
If the relationship between $x$ and $y$ is given by $2x + 3y = 10$ and the range of $y$ is $10$, then what is the range of $x$?
The marks secured by $5$ students in a subject are $82, 73, 69, 84, 66$. What is the coefficient of Range?
If the range of data is $20$ and its smallest value is $5$, then what is the largest value of data is?
What is the coefficient of range for the observations $20, 28, 32, 41, 48, 50$?
What is the range of a data set?
If the range of $x$ is $2$, find range of $-3x + 50$?
The range of the $15, 12, 10, 9, 17, 20$ is
The range of $15, 12, 10, 9, 17, 30$ is
If $R_x$ and $R_y$ denote ranges of $x$ and $y$ respectively where $x$ and $y$ are related by $3x+2y+10=0$, what would be the relation between $x$ and $y$?
If the range of $28, 22, 40, 20, 15, 50$ is
What is the coefficient of range for below: Class | 10-19 | 20-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-59 Freq. | 11 | 25 | 16 | 7 | 3
Which of the following is a correct statement?
If $R_x$ and $R_y$ denote ranges of $x$ and $y$ respectively where $x$ and $y$ are related by $4x+5y+12=0$, what would be the relation between $R_x$ and $R_y$?
$________ is an absolute measure of dispersion.$
Which of the following measure of dispersion is based on absolute deviations?
Find the coefficient of mean deviation for mean for the data: $5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 19$
If a school has $14$ teachers, their heights (in cm) are: $172, 173, 164, 178, 168, 169, 173, 172, 173, 164, 178, 168, 169, 173$ then average deviation of this data is:
The probable value of mean deviation when $Q_3 = 40$ and $Q_1 = 15$ is:
If every observation is increased by $7$ then:
The mean deviation of the numbers $3, 10, 6, 11, 14, 17, 9, 8, 12$ about the mean is:
Which of the below is based on absolute deviation?
If $x$ and $y$ are related as $4x+3y+11=0$ and mean deviation of $y$ is $7.20$, what is the mean deviation of $x$?
The mean deviation about the mean for the data $12, 16, 24, 30, 35, 39, 40$ is
If Mean deviation of Arithmetic Mean is $1.78$ and Arithmetic Mean is $3.50$ then coefficient of Mean deviation about Arithmetic mean is
The MD about the Mean for the data $6,9,11,10,12$ is
The mean deviation about Mode for the numbers $4/11, 6/11, 8/11, 9/11, 12/11, 8/11$ is
If the relation between $x$ and $y$ is $5y - 3x = 10$ and the mean deviation about mean for $x$ is $12$, then the mean deviation of $y$ about mean is
If two variables $x$ and $y$ are related by $2x + 3y = 0$ and the mean and mean deviation about mean of $x$ are $1$ and $0.3$ respectively, then the co-efficient of mean deviation of $y$ about mean is:
The equation of a line is $5x + 2y = 17$. Mean deviation of $y$ about mean is $5$. Calculate mean deviation of $x$ about mean.
The deviations are minimum when taken from
The sum of squares of the deviations of the given values from their ................. is minimum.
Which measure of dispersion is based on the absolute deviation only?
Find the mean deviation about mean for the numbers: $2, 6, 7, 4, 8, 3$
If the relation between $x$ and $y$ is $4y - 3x = 10$ and the mean deviation about mean for $x$ is $12$, then the mean deviation of $y$ about mean is
If two variables $x$ and $y$ are related by $2x + 3y - 7 = 0$ and the mean and mean deviation about mean of $X$ are $1$ and $0.3$ respectively, then the co-efficient of mean deviation of $Y$ about mean is.
The relation between two variables is $2x - 3y + 12 = 0$ If mean deviation of $y$ is $6$ then mean deviation of $x$ is
If two variables $x$ and $y$ are related by $2x$ and $3y - 7 = 0$ and the mean and mean deviation about mean of $x$ are $1$ and $0.3$ respectively, then the coefficient of mean deviation of $y$ about mean is:
If the S.D. of the $1^{st}$ $n$ natural numbers is $\sqrt{30}$ then the value of $n$ is
If the variance of $5, 7, 9$ and $11$ is $4$, then the coefficient of variation is:
Standard Deviation for the marks obtained by a student in monthly test in mathematic (out of $50$) as $30, 35, 25, 20, 15$ is
If the standard deviation for the marks obtained by a student in monthly test is $36$, then variance is
If $\sigma^2 = 100$ & coefficient of variation $= 20\%$ then $x$
S.D of first five consecutive natural numbers is
If the profits of a company remain some for the last ten months then the S.D. of profits of the company would be:
The sum of mean and SD of a series is $a + b$, if we add $2$ to each observation of the series then the sum of mean and SD is
Origin is shifted by $5$, what will happen
Coefficient of variation is equal to:
Find SD of the following $1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.$
If mean $= 200$ and variance $= 80$. Find coefficient of variation.
Which of the below is affected by shifting of scale.
Coefficient of variation is $80$. Mean is $20$. Find variance:
SD from numbers $1, 4, 5, 7, 8$ is $2.45$. If $10$ is added to each then SD will be:
The best statistical measure used for comparing two series is
It is given that the mean ($X$) is 10 and standard deviation (s.d.) is 3.2. If the observations are increased by 4, then the new mean and standard deviations are:
The SD of 1 to 9 natural number is:
If the numbers are $5, 1, 8, 7, 2$ then the coefficient of variation is:
AM and Coefficient of variation of $x$ is 10 and 40. What is the variance $30-2x$?
Following are the wages of 8 workers $82, 96, 52, 75, 70, 65, 50, 70$. Find range and coefficient of range?
Find the standard deviation and coefficient of variation for $1, 9, 8, 7, 5$.
If the coefficient of variation and standard deviation are 30 and 12 respectively, then the arithmetic mean of the distribution is:
If the sum of square of the values equals to 3390, Number of observations are 30 and Standard deviation is 7, what is the mean value of the above observations?
If the variance of random variable '$x$' is 17, then what is variance of $y = 2x+5$?
If the variance of given data is 12, and their mean value is 40, what is coefficient of variation (CV)?
In a given set if all data are of same value then variance would be:
If the Standard Deviation of data $2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 17$ is $4.47$, then Standard Deviation of the data $4, 8, 10, 12, 16, 34$ is
The mean and variance of a group of 100 observations are 8 and 9 respectively. Out of 100 observations, the mean and standard deviation of 60 observations are 10 and 2 respectively. Find the variance of remaining 40 observations?
$For the first 20 natural numbers the standard deviation is ________.$
If Arithmetic mean and Coefficient of variations of $x$ are 5 and 20 respectively, the variance of $12-3x$ is
Consider the data sets: $X = [-6, 2, -2, 6]$, $Y = [4, 8, 2, 6]$ $Z = [103, 100, 102, 101]$ Let $S_X, S_Y, S_Z$ be the standard deviations of the sets $X, Y$ and $Z$ respectively. We have the relations,
If each observation of a set is divided by 10, then the Standard Deviation of the new observation is:
The Standard Deviation of the series is $3, 6, 9, 12, 15$ is:
If the mean of frequency distribution is 100 and coefficient of variation is $45\%$, then Standard deviation is
If the mean and SD of $X$ are $a$ and $b$ respectively, then the S.D of $X = \frac{X-a}{b}$ is
Coefficient of Variation (CV) is calculated
The SD for the data $6, 9, 10, 3, 7$ is
The standard deviation of, $10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 16, 16$ is
If all the observations are multiplied by 2, then
If the profits of a company remain the same for the last ten months, then the standard deviation of profits for these ten months would be?
If $X$ and $Y$ are related by $2X+3Y=4$ and SD of $X$ is 6, then SD of $Y$ is
The standard deviation of $25, 32, 43, 53, 62, 59, 48, 31, 24, 33$ is
The SD is independent of change of
If $x$ and $y$ are related by $y = 2x + 5$ and the SD and AM of $x$ are known to be $5$ and $10$ respectively, then the coefficient of variation of $y$ is
If the SD of $x$ is $3$, what us the variance of $(5-x)$?
If the values of all observations are equal then the Standard Deviation of the given observations is
The Standard Deviation of a set of $50$ items is $10$. Find the Standard Deviation if every item is increased by $5$
Find the coefficient of variation if the sum of squared deviations taken from mean $40$ of $10$ observations is $360$.
If $x$ and $y$ are related by $2x+3y+4=0$ and SD of $x$ is $9$, then SD of $y$ is
What is the coefficient of variation of the following numbers $53, 52, 61, 60, 64$
The mean and SD for $a, b,$ and $2$ are $3$ and $1$ respectively, the value of $ab$ would be
If $X$ and $Y$ are two random variables then $v(x+y)$, when $x$ is independent of $y$
The sum of squares of deviation from mean of $10$ observations is $250$. Mean of the data is $10$. Find the coefficient of variation
If variance of is $x$ is $5$, then find the variance of $(2-3x)$
What is the standard deviation of number recoveries among $48$ patients when the probability of recovering is $0.75$?
The standard deviation of $10, 16, 10, 16, 10, 10, 16, 16$ is
The variance of the data $3, 4, 5, 8$ is
If the profits of a company remains the same for the last ten months, then the standard deviation of profits for these ten months would be ?
Which measure of dispersion is based on all the observations?
The Sum of the squares of the deviations from mean of 10 observations is 250. Mean of the data is 10. Find coefficient of variation.
The Standard Deviation of a variable $x$ is known to be 10. The Standard deviation of $50+5x$
The of mean and SD of a series is $a+b$, if we add 2 to each observation of the series then the sum of the mean and SD is
If all the observations are decreased by 4, find the relation between new SD and old SD.
Standard deviation of first $n$ natural number is 2. What is the value of $n$?
Find the variance of $3x+2$ if standard deviation of $x$ is 4
If the variance of $x = 148.6$ and mean of $x = 40$, then the coefficient of variation is
If $x$ and $y$ are related by $y = 2x+5$ and the SD and AM of $x$ are known to be 5 and 10 respectively., then the coefficient of variation of $y$ is
If $x$ and $y$ are related by $y = 2x+5$ and the SD and AM of $x$ are known to be 5 and 10 resp., then the coefficient of variation of $y$ is
SD of first five consecutive natural numbers is:
If the profit of a company remains same for the last 10 months then the SD of profit of the company would be:
The SD of a variable $x$ is to be 10. SD of $50+5x$ is
If mean and coefficient of variation of the marks of $n$ students is 20 and 80 respectively. What will be variance of them
If the standard deviation of $1, 2, 3, 4, ..., 10$ is $\sigma$, then the SD of $11, 12, 13, 14, ..., 20$ is:
What is the SD of the following series : Meas. | 0-10 | 10-20 | 20-30 | 30-40 Freq. | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2
$If all observations in a distribution are increased by 6, then the variance of the series will be ____$
The arithmetic mean and coefficient of variation of data set $x$ are respectively 10 and 30. The variance of $30-2x$ is
If $2x + 3y = 0$ and $v(x) = 6$ then $v(y)$ is:
If the profit of a company remain same for the last 10 months then the SD of profit would be:
The sum of mean and SD of a series is $a + b$, if we add $2$ to each observation of the series then the sum of mean and SD is:
If the coefficient of variation and standard deviation are $60$ and $12$ respectively, then the arithmetic mean of the distribution is
If the sum of square of the value equals to $3390$, Number of observation are $30$ and Standard deviation is $7$, what is the mean value of the above observation?
If the variance of random variable '$x$' is $18$, then what is variance of $y = 2x + 5$?
If the variance of given data is $12$, and their mean value is $40$, what is coefficient of variation (CV)?
There are two startups in ecommerce sector struggling to acquire the market. Following data is for Mean and Standard Deviation of billing amount of bought items per month on their website.Startup | A | BNo. of customers/Month | 40 | 30Mean billing amount | $2,500 | $2,200SD of billing amount | $10 | $11Which startup has a better consistency in terms of sales numbers?
Which of the following is the best measure to calculate the volatility of stock market?
If mean and coefficient of variation of the marks of $10$ students is $20$ and $80$ respectively. What will be the variance of them?
$If the same amount is added or subtracted from all the of the individual series then the standard deviation and variance both shall be ______.$
If the S.D. of $x$ is $4$, what is the variance of $(5 - 2x)$?
Mean and S.D. of a given set of observations is $1,500$ and $400$ respectively. If there is an increment of $100$ in the first year and each observation is hiked by $20\%$ in $2$nd years, then find new mean and S.D.
If $5$ is subtracted from each observation of some certain item then its co-efficient of variation is $10\%$ and $5$ is added to each item then its coefficient of variation is $8\%$. Find original coefficient of variation.
Suppose a population A has $100$ observations $101, 102, 103, ..., 200$ and another population B has $100$ observations $151, 152, 153, ..., 250$. If $V_A$ and $V_B$ represents the variance of the two populations respectively, then $V_A / V_B$ ______.
If variance of $x$ is $5$, then find the variance of $(2 - 3x)$
The sum of the squares of deviations of a set of observations has the smallest value, when the deviations are taken from their
If the Standard Deviation of $10$ observations is $4$ and if each item is divided by $-2$ then Standard Deviation of new series is
For a set of $100$ observations, taking assumed mean as $4$, the sum of the deviations is $-11$ cm, and the sum of the squares of these deviations is $257$ cm$^2$. The coefficient of variation is:
Mean and S.D. of $x$ is $50$ and $5$ respectively. Find mean and S.D. of $X = -50$
If the mean of frequency distribution is $100$ and coefficient of variation is $45\%$ then SD is
If the mean and SD of $X$ are $a$ and $b$ respectively, then the S.D of $X - a$ is
If the same amount is added or subtracted from all the of an individual series then the standard deviation and variance both shall be
If all the observations are increased by $6$, then the variance of the series will be
$(Q_3 - Q_1)$ is known as
The Q.D of $6$ numbers $15, 8, 36, 40, 38, 41$ is
Coefficient of quartile deviation is $1/4$ then $Q_3 / Q_1$
Which of the following is a relative measure of dispersion?
Which is not a measure of central tendency
Standard deviation is ________ times of $\sqrt{MD \times QD}$
The approximate ratio SD, MD, QD is:
If the first quartile in $56.50$ and the third quartile is $77.50$, then the co-efficient of QD is:
$_________ is based on all the observations and _________ is based on the central fifty percent of the observations.$
Which one of the following is not a method of measures of dispersion?
For a given set of normally distributed data, the following statistical parameters are known: Mean $= 6$, Standard deviation $= 2.6$, Median $= 5$ and Quartile deviation $= 1.5$, then the coefficient of quartile deviation equals to
If the first quartile is $42.75$ and the third quartile is $74.25$, then the coefficient of QD is:
If the quartile deviation is $12$ and the first quartile is $25$, then the value of the third quartile is:
If 'x' and 'y' are related as $3x - 4y = 20$ and the quartile deviation of 'x' is $12$, then the quartile deviation of 'y' is:
If in a data set, $25$ percent of values are smaller than $30$ and one-fourth of values are larger than $70$, then the coefficient of quartile deviation is _________ %
In which of the following there is no impact of presence of extreme observations?
The Quartile Deviation of the distribution of the following data is:$\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline x & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 \\ \hline f(x) & 2 & 2 & 4 & 8 & 4 & 8 \\ \hline \end{array}$
The quartiles of a variable are $45, 52$ and $65$ respectively. Its quartile deviation is
Quartiles can be determined graphically using a
Which measures of dispersions is not affected by the presence of extreme observations?
Which measure is based on only the central fifty percent of the observations?
The appropriate measure of dispersion for open-end classification is
The quartiles of a variable are $45$, $52$ and $75$ respectively. Its quartile deviation is
If $x$ and $y$ are related as $3x + 4y = 20$ and the quartile deviation of $x$ is $16$, then the QD of $y$ is
The quartiles of the variables are $45$, $52$, and $65$ respectively, Its Quartile Deviation is
$Interval Quartile Range is ______ of QD$
In the equation $4x + 2y = 3$, quartile deviation for $y$ is $3$. Find the quartile deviation for $x$.
If the quartile deviation of $x$ is $6$ and $3x + 6y = 20$, what is the quartile deviation of $y$?
The quartiles of a variable are $45$, $52$ and $65$ respectively. Its quartile deviation is
If $x$ and $y$ are related as $3x - 4y = 20$ then the Quartile Deviation of $x$ is $12$, then the Quartile deviation of $y$ is:
The QD from the following observations is $10, 18, 20, 28, 15, 17, 22, 25, 29, 32, 34$ is equal to:
The QD of six numbers $13, 8, 36, 40, 38, 41$ is equal to:
Coefficient of Quartile Deviation is $1/4$ then QD is?
If the SD of a variable $X$ is $\sigma$ then Quartile Deviation (QD) is
Which one is an absolute measure of dispersion?
A shift of origin has no impact on
Which measure is based on all the observations
Which of the below is affected by shifting of scale
The Quartile deviation is
The approximate ratio of SD: MD: QD is
$______ is based on all the observations and ______ is based on the central fifty percent of the observations.$
If the first quartile is $56$, and the third quartile is $77$, then the co-efficient of quartile deviation is
In case of extreme sampling fluctuations, which is the best measure of dispersion?
If Quartile deviation is $7$. Find the value of $x$ from the arranged series: $2, x, 6, 7, 9, 16, 18$.
If the first quartile is $142$ and semi-inter quartile range is $18$, then the value of median is:
If $X$ and $Y$ are related as $3X - 4Y = 20$ and the quartile deviation of $X$ is $12$, then the quartile deviation of $Y$ is:
For a moderately skewed distribution, quartile deviation and the standard deviation are related by:
If the first quartile is $142$ and semi-inter quartile range is $18$, then the value of median is
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