The average marks of boys in a class is 52 and that of girls is 42. The average marks of boys
and girls combined is 50. The percentage of boys in the class is
02Medium89×since 2002Q5413
The mean of the data set comprising of 16 observations is 16. If one of the observation valued 16 is deleted
and three new observations valued 3, 4 and 5 are added to the data, then the mean of the resultant data, is :
03Medium89×since 2002Q5414
The mean age of 25 teachers in a school is 40 years. A teacher retires at the age of 60 years and a new teacher is appointed in his place. If now the mean age of the teachers in this school is 39 years, then the age (in years) of the newly appointed teacher is :
04Medium89×since 2002Q5416
The mean and the median of the following ten
numbers in increasing order 10, 22, 26, 29, 34, x,
42, 67, 70, y are 42 and 35 respectively, then xy is equal to
05Hard89×since 2002Q5417
If for some x ∈ R, the frequency distribution of the marks obtained by 20 students in a test is :
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Marks
2
3
5
7
Frequency
(x + 1)²
2x - 5
x² - 3x
x
then the mean of the marks is
06Hard89×since 2002Q5418
Let M denote the median of the following frequency distribution
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Class
0 - 4
4 - 8
8 - 12
12 - 16
16 - 20
Frequency
3
9
10
8
6
Then 20M is equal to :
07Medium89×since 2002Q5419
In an experiment with 15 observations on x, then following results were available:
∑x2=2830, ∑x=170
One observation that was 20 was found to be wrong and was replaced by the correct value
30. Then the corrected variance is :
08Medium89×since 2002Q5420
Consider the following statements:
(a) Mode can be computed from histogram
(b) Median is not independent of change of scale
(c) Variance is independent of change of origin and scale.
Which of these is/are correct?
09Medium89×since 2002Q5421
In a series of 2n observations, half of them equal a and remaining half equal –a. If the
standard deviation of the observations is 2, then ∣a∣ equals
10Easy89×since 2002Q5422
Let x₁, x₂,...........,x_n be n observations such that
∑xi2=400 and ∑xi=80. Then a
possible value of n among the following is