Basic Statistics Classroom Hands - On Quiz

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State whether the following statements are True or False: A set of 6 observations has a median of 21. If the highest score increases by 3, the median will become 24. 2) In a positively skewed frequency curve, the mean is less than the median. 3) A student obtained the mean and variance of a set of 10 observations as 10 and -5 respectively. 4) An additional observation 12 is included in a series of 10 observations and its mean remains unaffected. The mean of the series was 12. 5) The width of the bar in a histogram indicates the class frequency. 6) The median can be computed when the frequency distribution has an open end interval. 7) The mean and variance of a distribution are 20 and 4 respectively, the coefficient of variation is 15%. 8) Exactly half of the data falls within the interquartile range. 9) If all entries of a data set are increased by 20, then the mean, median and mode will all be increased by 20. 10) If a student scores 75% in an exam, then that student is in the 75th percentile.

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Fill in the blanks. If the mean, mode and standard deviation of a frequency distribution are 41, 45, and 8 respectively, then the coefficient of skewness is ______ 1 4 Geometric mean of and is ________. 16 25 The mean of first 20 natural numbers is __ _____. Let V(X) = 4 and V(Y) = 3, then standard deviation of (X 2Y) = _______. If the variance of a data set is 5, then the fourth order central moment for the distribution to be mesokurtic will be _______.

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Choose the correct answer. In an aquaculture study, the following variables were measured on each fish: gender, initial weight, body temperature, grading The scale of these four variables (in order) is: (a) Nominal, ratio, ratio, ratio (b) Nominal, ratio, interval, interval (c) Ordinal, ratio, interval, ratio (d) Nominal, ratio, interval, Ordinal Among 13 students, 4 have failed. The marks of successful candidates are 41, 57, 38, 61, 36, 35, 71, 50 and 40. Median of all the observations is (a) 38 (b) 40 (c) 41 (d) 50

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A driver covers the distance of 400 km from town A to town B by car at a speed of 80 km/hr. He returns at a speed of 100 km/hr. The mean speed during the trip is 8 4 (a) 180 km/hr (b) 90 km/hr (c) 88 (d) 44 9 9 If a constant number m is added to every item of a series, then which one of the following measures of dispersion will change? (a) Mean deviation (b) Coefficient of variation (c) Standard deviation (d) Variance If the harmonic mean and geometric mean of two numbers are 25 and 30 respectively, then their arithmetic mean is 6 125 (a) (b) (c) 72 (d) 36 5 6 If all the given observed values are doubled, then (a) the average value is doubled but the standard deviation value remains unchanged. (b) the average value remains unchanged but the standard deviation value is doubled. (c) both the average value and the standard deviation value are doubled. (d) both average value and the standard deviation value remains unchanged.

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The two regression equations are 8X-10Y+66=0 and 40X-18Y=214. The correlation between X and Y is (i) 0.36 (ii) 0.5 (iii) 0.6 (iv) - 0.6 The A.M. of two numbers is 10 and their G.M. is 8. The two numbers are (i) 16,4 (ii) 12,8 (iii) 8,8 (iv 9,11 The coefficient of rank correlation of the marks obtained by 10 students in Statistics and Mathematics is 0.8. It was later found that the difference in ranks obtained by one student was wrongly taken as 7 instead of 8. The correct rank correlation coefficient is (i) 0.60 (ii) 0.71 (iii) 0.89 (iv) 0.98 A medical treatment has a success rate of 0.8. Two patients are to be treated with this treatment. Assuming the results are independent for the two patients, the probability that neither one of them will be successfully cured is (i) 0.5 (ii) 0.36 (iii) 0.2 (iv) 0.04