PROF.

BHAMBWANI’S
RELIABLE CLASSES
MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY
LEC 1:
THEORY

LEC 2:
MEAN
Q1. In a batch of 10 students, the marks obtained by them in statistics in a test
are as follows. Calculate the arithmetic mean of the marks.
Marks: 7, 8, 5, 6, 7, 5, 5, 4, 6, 7.
Q2. The following data gives the weights of 10 children. Calculate the Arithmetic
mean of the weights.
Child No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Weight 30 32 33 35 35 36 37 39 37 40
Q3. Calculate the arithmetic mean of ages of 25 children.
Age in years(X) 5 6 7 8 9 10
No of 3 4 4 6 5 3
children(F)

Q4. From the following data of the marks obtained by 70 students of a class,
calculate the arithmetic mean.
Marks 20 30 40 50 60 70
Frequency 8 12 20 20 6 4

LEC 3:
Q5. Obtain mean of the following distribution:
Class 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
Frequency 1 7 15 27 20 8 2

LEC 4:
Q6. For the following frequency table, find the mean.
Class 100- 120- 140- 160- 180- 200- 220-
120 140 160 180 200 220 240
Frequency 10 8 4 4 3 1 2

LEC 5:
Q7. In a study on patients, the following data were obtained. Find the arithmetic
mean
Age 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80-
(in years) 89
No. of 1 0 1 10 17 38 9 3
cases:
Q8. Following is the distribution of marks obtained by 60 students in Economics
test:
Marks No. of students Marks No. of students
More than 0 60 More than 30 20
More than 10 56 More than 40 10
More than 20 40 More than 50 3
Calculate the arithmetic mean.

Q9. The frequency distribution of the marks in statistics of 100 students is given
below, obtain average marks from it.
Marks 5-14 15-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65-74
Number of 8 11 15 25 20 13 8
students

Q10. From the following data calculate mean from the following data
Marks less than 10 20 30 40 50 60
No of students 9 15 25 32 41 50
LEC 6:
Objectives Unit 1

Q1. If there are 3 observations 15,20,25 then the sum of deviation of the
observations from their AM is.
(a) 0 (b) 5 (c) -5 (d) None of these
Q2. If a variable assumes the values 1,2,3……. 5 with frequencies as 1,2,3…..5,
then what is the AM?
11
(a) (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) 4.50
3
Q3. The data relating to the daily wage of 20 workers are shown below:
Rs.50, Rs.55, Rs.60, Rs.58, Rs.59, Rs.72, Rs.65, Rs.68, Rs.53, Rs.50, Rs.67,
Rs.58, Rs,63, Rs.69, Rs.74, Rs.63, Rs.61, Rs.57, Rs.62, Rs.64.
The employer pays bonus amounting to Rs.100, Rs.200, Rs.300, Rs.400, Rs.500
to the wage earners in the wage groups Rs.50 and not more than Rs.55 Rs. 55
and not more than Rs.60 and so on and lastly Rs.70 and not more than Rs.75,
during the festive month of October.
What is the average bonus paid per wage earner?
(a) Rs.200 (b) Rs.250 (c) Rs.285 (d) Rs.300

LEC 7:
THEORY ON MEDIAN &
MEDIAN

Q11. Obtain the value of the median from the following data
S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Income 384 391 407 522 591 672 753 777 1490

Q12. Obtain the median from the following data.

S. No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Income 22 23 32 45 46 31 28 39

Q13. Calculate the median weight of a group of children.

Weight in Kgs 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37
No of children 8 12 15 25 20 12 5 2

LEC 8:
THEORY ON CONTINUOUS MEDIAN &
Q14. Calculate the median height of the following group
Height in cms No of persons
150 – 155 5
155 - 160 15
160 - 165 30
165 - 170 35
170 - 175 15
175 – 180 7

Q15. Find the median of the following data.

Wages(in rupees) 60-70 50-60 40-50 30-40 20-30
No of
Workers 7 21 11 6 5

Q16. Find the median of the distribution:

Mid points 5 15 25 35 45
Frequency 3 9 8 5 3

Q17. Determine the median of the distribution:

Class 0-9 10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69
Frequency 1 4 15 11 7 4 2

Q18. The following table shows the age distribution of persons in a region.
Calculate the mean.
Age Below No of Age below No of persons
persons
10 2 50 15
20 5 60 17
30 9 70 20
40 12
Q19. Calculate the mean and median of the following data.
Marks above 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
No of students 80 72 65 55 43 28 16 10 8 0

LEC 9:
CONTINUATION OF LECTURE 8

LEC 10:
MODE
Q20. Calculate the mode and median from the following data.
Roll No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Marks 43 48 65 58 31 60 37 48 62 78

Q21. Calculate mode for the following data:

Class 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
Frequency 12 24 30 35 20 26 5

Q22. From the following table, Find the median and mode.
Income 100-200 100- 100- 100- 100-
300 400 500 600
Frequency 15 33 63 83 100

Objectives unit 3

What is the modal value for the numbers 5,8,6,4,10,15,18,10?

(a) 18 (b) 10 (c) 14 (d) None of these

LEC 11:
MEAN MEDIAN AND MODE

Q23. The marks obtained by 10 students in an examination were as follows:

70,65,68,70,75,73,80,70,83,86
Find the mode, median and mean deviation about the mean.(MAY 1998)

Q24. Calculate arithmetic mean, median and mode for the following distribution.

Income in 500- 1000- 1500- 2000- 2500-

Rs. 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000
No. of 30 50 100 40 30
persons

Q25. Calculate Mean, Median and Modal age of patients from the following data.

Age in years 5- 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30 31-35

10
Number of 5 7 11 10 8 9
Patients
Q26. state the formula showing relationship between Mean, median and mode.
Q27. Define Mean, Median and Mode. Given Mean = 70.2 and mode = 70.5, Find median
using empirical relationship among them.

Q28. In a moderately skewed distribution, the arithmetic mean is 10 units and the
mode is 7 units, find the median. (Ans: Median 9)

Q29. Fill in the gaps for the following distributions:

Distribution Mean Median Mode
(i) 10 ? 4
(ii) ? 3 5
(iii) 8 9 ?
Q30. Verify the formula Mean-Mode=3 (Mean-Median), for the raw data:
i) 7,7,8,9,10,13,16 ii) 3,4,4,5,6,6,6,8

LEC 12:
PROBLEMS ON COMBINED MEAN
Q36. The average marks score by 30 boys is 53 and the average marks scored by 70
girls is 63. Find the combined average of marks scored by all the students
together.

Q37. The average age of 20 workers is 35 years and the average age of another 30
workers is 30 years. Find the combined average age of all the workers taken
together.

Q38. In a factory mean wage of one class workers is Rs.50\- per week and that of
another class of workers is Rs. 60\- per week. If the mean wage of all the
workers taken together is Rs.57. What is the ratio of the number of workers
in the two classes?

Q39. The mean annual salary paid to all the employees in a company was Rs. 50,000\-
the mean annual salaries paid to male and female employees of the company were
Rs.52,000\- and Rs42,000\- respectively. Find the percentage of males and
females employed by the company.

Q40. The mean monthly salaries paid to 77 employees in a company was Rs.78 The mean
salary of 32 of them was Rs75\- and that of other 25 was Rs82. What was the
mean salary of the remaining?

Q41. Average age of group of 50 persons is 40 years the average age of 30 of them
is 30 years what is the average age of remaining 20 persons.

Q42. The average marks of a group of students are 57. The average marks of 70 of
them are 60 and the average marks of the remaining students are 50. Find the
total number of students.

Q43. The average age of 5 persons is 45 years. The oldest person is 65 years old.
What is the average age of the remaining 4.

Q44. In a group of 9 boys, the least weight was 40 kg. and the heaviest boy weighed
50 kg. To this group 4 more boys were added. Two of these boys weighed 39 kg.
the third weighed 51 kg. and the fourth 51.5 kg The median of the first group
of 9 boys was 42.5 kg. Find the median of the combined group of 13 boys.

Q45. Do you agree with the statements given below?

(i) In a class of 100 students in an examination the marks of Ajit and Prakash
who stood first, and second respectively were recorded as 90 and 89.It was
later found that Ajit had 89 marks and Prakash had 90 marks. This change will
affect the values of mean, median and mode.

(ii) The total monthly payment in a factory was 15600. The average was 160.
therefore there must be 100 worker in that factory.

(iii) The average marks of 5 students in a test 58. If a sixth student getting 64
marks was added to the group, the average of the group becomes 59. Ans. Average =
59.

LEC 13:
Q52. Find D1,D4 and D7 in the raw data:
8,5,9,2,4,7,8,1,2,3,15,10,3,6,14,12,4,11,8.

Q53. Given the following frequency distribution calculate the following

a) Quartiles
b) Quartile deviation
d) Median.
Daily wages No. of workers
12.5 - 17.5 2
17.5 - 22.5 22
22.5 - 27.5 10
27.5 - 32.5 14
32.5 - 37.5 3
37.5 - 42.5 4
42.5 - 47.5 6
47.5 - 52.5 1
52.5 - 57.5 1
N = 63
Q54. Find two quartiles and median of the following data and 3rd an 6th Decile
Class interval 50-59 40-49 30-39 20-29 10-19 0-9
Frequency 1 3 8 10 15 3

Q55. From the following data calculate median, the two quartiles, and the value of
36th item. 4th Decile 6th Decile 38th Precentile
And 64th percentile
Marks less than 10 20 30 40 50 60
No of students 9 15 25 32 41 50

Q56. Calculate two quartiles and value of from 35th item.

Marks 0-10 10-30 30-60 60-80 80-90
Frequency 5 15 30 8 2

Q57. The ages of 100 persons are tabulated below. Find P20 and P60.
Above what age, we have the oldest 10% persons?
Age 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
(Years)
No. of 16 20 21 28 10 3 2
persons

LEC 14:
PROBLEMS ON QUARTILES, DECILES PERCENTILES AND MEDIAN

Find the quartiles in each of the following data:

Q46. 29,12,26,19,24,36,21,33,35

Q47. 2,4,3,2,7,9,5,5,4

Q48.
I.Q. of 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140
children
No. of children 2 8 15 26 17 5 1 1
Q49.
Size of shoes 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
No. of 14 13 20 19 13 10 3
students

Q50. Find the value of Quartile deviation and its coefficient from the following
data.
Roll No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Marks 20 28 40 12 30 15 50 80
Q51. From the following data compute two quartiles and median.
Marks : 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60
No. of 5 10 25 30 20 10
students:

LEC 15:
THEORY

LEC 16:
Q53. Given the following frequency distribution calculate the following
a) Quartiles
b) Quartile deviation
d) Median.
Daily wages No. of workers
12.5 - 17.5 2
17.5 - 22.5 22
22.5 - 27.5 10
27.5 - 32.5 14
32.5 - 37.5 3
37.5 - 42.5 4
42.5 - 47.5 6
47.5 - 52.5 1
52.5 - 57.5 1
N = 63
Q54. Find two quartiles and median of the following data and 3rd an 6th Decile
Class interval 50-59 40-49 30-39 20-29 10-19 0-9
Frequency 1 3 8 10 15 3

Q55. From the following data calculate median, the two quartiles, and the value of
36th item. 4th Decile 6th Decile 38th Precentile
And 64th percentile
Marks less than 10 20 30 40 50 60
No of students 9 15 25 32 41 50

Q56. Calculate two quartiles and value of from 35th item.

Marks 0-10 10-30 30-60 60-80 80-90
Frequency 5 15 30 8 2

Q57. The ages of 100 persons are tabulated below. Find P20 and P60.
Above what age, we have the oldest 10% persons?
Age 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80
(Years)
No. of 16 20 21 28 10 3 2
persons

LEC 17:
CHALLENGING PROBLEMS

Q58. The average weight of a group of 25 boys was calculated to be 78.4 lbs. It
was later discovered that one weight was wrongly taken as 69 lbs instead of
the correct value 96 lbs. Calculate the correct average.

Q59. The sum of deviations of a certain number of observations measured from 4 is

72 and the sum of the deviations of the observations from 7 is -3. Find the
number of observations and their mean.
Q60. Given below are the marks obtained by 50 students appearing for an admission
test?
Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50
No. of 6 8 20 9 7
Students
If cut off point was 34, find the percentage scoring more than 34 marks.

Q61. The frequencies of the numbers 3.2,5.8, 7.9 and 4.5 are respectively x, x+2,
x-3, and x+6. If arithmetic mean is 4.876, then determine the value of x.

Q62. The average marks scored by 10 students are 35. Later the moderator awarded 2
grace marks to 4 students each and 1 grace mark to 2 students each. Find the
average marks after moderation.

Q63. An individual purchases three qualities of pencils. The relevant data is given
below:

Quality Price per Pencil Money Spent

(Rs.) (Rs.)
A 1 50
B 1.5 30
C 2.00 20
Calculate the average price per pencil.

Q64. A man purchased 5 rolls of ribbons each measuring 60 metres at the rate of
4,6,10,12 and 15 metres a rupee respectively. Find the average price of
ribbons.

Q65. The mean of 10 numbers is 12.5. The mean of first six is 15 and the last five
is 10. Find the sixth number.

Q66. The median of eight observations 31,48,37,34,45,36,41 and x is 38 where 37< x

< 41. Find the value of x.

Q67. The mean, median and mode of a group of 25 observations are 143, 144 and 147
respectively. A set of 6 observations is added to this data with values 132,
125, 130, 160, 165 and 157. Find mean, median and mode for the combined group
of 31 observations.
LEC 18:
Objectives Unit -7

Q1. The harmonic mean for the numbers 2,3,5, is

(a) 2.00 (b) 3.33 (c) 2.90 (d)  3 30

Q2. If there are two groups with 75 and 65 as harmonic means and containing 15
and 13 observation then the combined HM is given by
(a) 65 (b) 70.36 (c) 70 (d) 71

Q3. What is the HM of 1, ½ , 1/3, …………………. 1/n?

2 nn  1
(a) n (b) 2n (c) (d)
n  1 2
Q4. An aeroplane flies from A to B at the rate of 500 km/hour and comes back from
B to A at the rate of 700 km/hour. The average speed of the aeroplane is
(a) 600 km. per hour (b) 583.33 km. per hour
(c) 100 35 km. per hour (d) 620 km. per hour

LEC 19:
PROBLEM ON HARMONIC MEAN
Q75. You can take a trip which entails travelling 900 km. By train at an average
speed of 60 km. Per hour, 300 km. By boat at an average of 25 km.11 P.h., 400
km. By plane at 350 km. Per hour and finally 15 km. by taxi at 25 km. per
hour. What is your average speed for the entire distance?
Q76. A motorist travel distances 5, 20, 45, 80, 100 kilometres with speeds 5, 10,
15, 20, 25 km. per hour. Find the average speed.

Q77. Find the Harmonic mean for the following distribution:

Class Frequency Class Frequency
5 – 10 1 20 – 25 54
10 – 15 9 25 - 30 11
15 – 20 29 30 – 35 5

Q78. The following table gives weights of 31 persons in a sample inquiry, Calculate
mean weight using (i) Harmonic mean
Weight (in lbs.): 130 135 140 145 146 148 149 150 157
No. of persons : 3 4 6 6 3 5 2 1 1
Q79. An airplane travels distances of 2,500; 1,200 and 500 km. at speeds 500, 400
and 250 kms. Per hour respectively. Find the average speed for the entire
trip, commenting on the choice of your average.
Q80. A train runs first 25 kilometres at a speed of 30 kilometres per hour, next
50 kilometres at a speed of 40 kilometres per hour, then due to repair of the
track, it covers only one kilometer at a speed of 10 kilometres per hour, and
finally covers the remaining distance of 24 kilometres at a speed of 25
kilometres per hour. What is the average speed in kilometers per hour?(Nov
93)

LEC 20:
THEORY ON GEOMETRIC MEAN &
PROBLEMS ON GEOMETRATIC MEAN.

Q81. Find the geometric mean of the numbers 17, 10, 28, 35 and 3.

Q82. Calculate the G.M. of the numbers 15, 108, 930, 498, 237.

LEC 21:
Q83. Calculate the geometric mean of the following series:

Weight (in lbs.): 50 51 52 53 54

No. of persons : 20 32 35 25 40

Q84. The increase in the sales for FOUR years each compared to the previous year
are given below. Calculate the average percentage of increase.
Increase %: 15, 20, 23, 22,
Q85. Find the average rate of increase in population which in fist decade increased
20%, in the second decade 20% and the third decade 45%, and in the fourth
decade 30% each increase being calculated as compared to the previous decade.

Q86. A machinery depreciates by 40% in the first year 15% in the second year and
10% p.a. for the next three years, each percentage being calculated on
diminishing value. What is the average percentage of depreciation for the
entire period?

Q87. Calculate the geometric mean of 3, 6, 24 and 48.

Q88. The arithmetic mean of two numbers is 10 and geometric mean is 8. Find the
numbers. (NOV 2004)

Objectives Unit 8

Q1. What is the GM for the numbers 8,24,and 40?

(a) 24 (b) 12 (c) 8 15 (d) 10

Q2. If GM of x is 10 and GM of y is 15, then the GM of xy is

(a) 150 (b) Log 10 x Log 15
(c) Log 150 (d) None of these Formula.

LEC 22:
THEORY &
Objectives Unit 9

Q1. If the AM and GM for two numbers are 6.50 and 6 respectively then the two
numbers are
(a) 6 and 7 (b) 9 and 4 (c) 10 and 3 (d) 8 and 5

Q2. If the AM and HM for two numbers are 5 and 3.2 respectively then the GM will
be
(a) 16.00 (b) 4.10 (c) 4.05 (d) 4.00

Q3. If the AM and GM for 10 observations are both 15, then the value of HM is
(a) Less than 15 (b) More then 15
(c) 15 (d) Can not be determined

LEC 23:
Objectives Unit 10

Changes in origin and change of scale and change of signs

PARAMETER If A is If each item If each If each item is
substracted is multiplied item is multiplied by
from each by K divided by -1
item K
Mean New mean New mean will New mean will
will be be K times of New mean = be of opposite
lower than original old mean/K sign.
original mean mean. New mean New mean = - old
by A . New mean = old should be mean
New mean = mean xK multiplied Multiply by -1
Old mean - A by K to get to get original
add A to Divide New original mean
restore to mean by K to mean
the origin get origin al
mean

Median Same as Mean Same as mean Same as Same as mean

mean
Mode Same as mean Same as mean Same as Same as mean
mean
Quartiles/Deciles Same as mean Same as mean Same as Same as mean
mean

Q1. Two variables x and y are given by y = 2x – 3. If the median of x is 20, what
is the median of y?
(a) 20 (b) 40 (c) 37 (d) 35
Q2. If the relationship between two variables u and v are given by 2u + v+ 7 = 0
and if the AM of u is 10, then the AM of v is
(a) 17 (b) -17 (c) -27 (d) 27
Q3. 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) 20 (b) 13 (c) 3 (d) 23