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Where does the Arithmetic Mean lie? The marks obtained by Sarala, Bindu, Geeta, and Rekha in Telugu, Hindi, and English are given below.StudentsTeluguHindiEnglishSarala201615Bindu141020Geeta161218Rekha141015 (i) What do you observe from the above table ?(ii) Does the mean lies between |
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Answer» Now, let us calculate the average marks obtained by the students in each subject.
i) Mean always lie between the maximum and minimum values/observations of the data. ii) Yes, Its always true. i.e., Mean always lies between the maximum and minimum values of the data. |
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The following graph gives the information about the number of railway tickets sold for different cities on a railway ticket counter between 6.00 am to 10.00 am. Read the bar graph and answer the following questions. (a) How many tickets were sold in all? (b) For which city were the maximum number of tickets sold?(c) For which city were the minimum number of tickets sold? (d) Name the cities for which the number of tickets sold is more than 20. (e) Fill in the blanks: Number of tickets sold for Delhi and Jaipur together exceeds the total number of tickets sold for Patna and Chennai by _______. |
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Answer» (a) 295 (b) Delhi (c) Chennai (d) Patna,Jatpur,Delhi,Guwahati |
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Fill in the blanks: (i) Lower class limit of 15-18 is ……… (ii) Upper class limit of 24-30 is …….. (iii) Upper limit of 5-12.5 is ……… (iv) If the upper and the lower limits of a class interval are 16 and 10 ; the class-interval is …….. (v) If the lower and the upper limits of a class interval are 7.5 and 12.5 ; the class interval is …….. |
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Answer» (i) Lower class limit of 15 – 18 is 15. (ii) Upper class limit of 24 – 30 is 30. (iii) Upper limit of 5 – 12.5 is 12.5 (iv) If the upper and lower limits of a class interval are 16 and 10 ; the class interval is 10 – 16. (v) If the lower and upper limits of a class interval are 7.5 and 12.5 ; the class interval is 7.5 – 12.5 |
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| 204. |
The cost of Tomatoes in the month of Nov, 2015 for first Week are ₹35, ₹40, ₹55, ₹60, ₹70, ₹75, ₹80. Then its average cost is? A) ₹60B) ₹65C) ₹58D) ₹59.29 |
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Answer» Correct option is D) ₹59.29 |
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| 205. |
The range of the data 30, 61, 55, 56, 60, 20, 26, 46, 28, 56 is(a) 26 (b) 30 (c) 41 (d) 61 |
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Answer» (c) 41 The difference between the lowest and the highest observation in a given data is called its Range. Then, Range = Highest observation – Lowest observation = 61 – 20 = 41 |
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| 206. |
The mean of first 7 primes is ……………?A) 8.2B) 8.3C) 8D) 8.28 |
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Answer» Correct option is D) 8.28 First prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 and 17. \(\therefore\) sum of first 7 prime numbers = 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 = 58 \(\therefore\) Mean of first 7 prime numbers = sum/7 = 58/7 = 8.28 |
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What is the mean of first 10 natural numbers A) 5B) 5.6C) 5.5D) 5.4 |
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Answer» Correct option is C) 5.5 First 10 natural numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. \(\therefore\) sum of first 10 natural numbers = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 = 55 \(\therefore\) Mean Average = \(\frac{Sum}{10}=\frac{55}{10}\) = 5.5 |
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| 208. |
Find the mean of 994, 996, 998, 1002 and 1000. |
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Answer» Mean = Sum of the given numbers/Total number of given numbers Mean = (994 + 996 + 998 + 1002 + 1000) ÷ 5 = 4990 ÷ 5 = 998. |
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The number of scouts in a school is depicted by the following pictograph:Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions: (a) Which class has the minimum number of scouts? (b) Which class has the maximum number of scouts? (c) How many scouts are there in Class VI? (d) Which class has exactly four times the scouts as that of Class X? (e) What is the total number of scouts in the Classes VI to X? |
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Answer» (a) X (b) VIII (c) 40 (d) VI (e) 160 |
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Number of members in five families are depicted by the following pictographObserve the pictograph and answer the following questions : (i) Which family has maximum members? (ii) Which family has minimum members? (iii) What is the difference between number of family members of families D and C? (iv) How many total number of members in all five families? |
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Answer» (i) Family D has maximum members. (ii) Family C has minimum members. (iii) The difference between number of family members of families D and C = 6 – 2 = 4 (iv) Total members in all five families = 5 + 4 + 2 + 6 + 4 = 21 |
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The number of girl students in each class of a co-educational middle school is depicted by the pictograph:Observe this pictograph and answer the following questions:From the above table, it can be concluded that in classes I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, there are 24, 18,20, 14, 10, 16, 12, 6 girls respectively.(a) Which class has the minimum number of girl student?(b) Is the number of girls in class VI less than the number of girls in Class V?(c) How many girls are there in class VII? |
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Answer» (a) Class VIII has the minimum number of girls i.e. only 6 girls. (b) No, in class V and VI, there are 10 and 16 girls respectively clearly the number of girls is more in class VI than that in V (c) There are 12 girls in class VII. |
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The sale of electric bulbs on different days of a week is shown below.Observe the pictograph and answer the following questions:(a) How many bulbs were sold on friday?(b) On Which day were the maximum number of bulbs sold?(c) On Which of the days same number of bulbs were sold?(d) On Which of the days minimum number of bulbs were sold?(e) If one big carton can hold 9 bulbs. How many cartons were needed in the given week? |
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Answer» (a) 14 bulbs were sold on friday. (b) The maximum numbers of bulbs (i.e., 18) were sold on Sunday. (c) Equal numbers of bulbs (i.e., 8) were sold on Wednesday and Saturday. (d) The minimum numbers of bulbs (i.e., 8) were so Id on Wednesday and Saturday. (e) Total bulbs sold in the week = 12 + 16 + 8 + 10 + 14 + 8 + 18 = 86 |
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Total number of animals in five villages are as follows:Village A : 80Village B : 120Village C : 90Village D : 40Village E : 60Prepare a pictograph of these animals using one symbol to respect 10 animals and answer the following question:(a) How many symbols represent animals of village E ?(b) Which village has the maximum number of animals ?(c) Which village has more animals: village A or village C?The pictograph for the given data can be drawn as follows |
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Answer» (a) 6 symbol will represent animals of village E as there were 60 animals in this village. (b) Village B has the maximum number of animals i.e., 120. (c) Village A and C have 80 and 90 animals in it clearly village C has more animals. |
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In a village six fruit merchants sold the following number of fruit baskets in a particular season:Observe this pictograph and answer the following questions:(a) Which merchant slid the maximum number of baskets?(b) How many fruit baskets were sold by answer?(c) The merchants who have sold 600 pr more number of baskets are planning to buy a go down for the next season, can you name them? |
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Answer» From the above pictograph, it can be observed that the number of fruit basket sold by Rahim, Lakhanpai Anwar, Martin, Ranjit sigh, and Joseph are 400, 550, 700, 950, 800 and 450 respectively. (a) Martin sold the maximum number of baskets i.e, 950 (b) Anwar sold 700 baskets. (c) Anwar, martin, and Ranjith singh are the 3 merchants who have sold more than 600 baskets. Therefore they are planning to by a godown for the next season. |
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Mid Day Meal (MDM) taken by the students in six days are 132, 164, 145, 182, 163 and 114, Find Arithmetic Mean of students who took MDM per day. |
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Answer» Given, number of students who took MDM 132, 164, 145, 182, 163, 114. Arithmetic Mean = \(\frac {Sum\,of\,observations}{Number\,of\,observations}\) = \(\frac {132+164+145+182+163+114}{6} = \frac {900}{6} = 150\) |
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Study the double bar graph given below and answer the following questions:(a) Which sport is liked the most by Class VIII students?(b) How many students of Class VII like Hockey and Tennis in all?(c) How many students are there in Class VII?(d) For which sport is the number of students of Class VII less than that of Class VIII?(e) For how many sports students of Class VIII are less than Class VII?(f) Find the ratio of students who like Badminton in Class VII to students who like Tennis in Class VIII. |
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Answer» (a) Cricket has heighest value for Class VIII students in the graph. ∴ Cricket is liked the most by Class VIII students. (b) Number of students like Hockey of Class VII = 7 Number of students like Tennis of Class VII = 10 ∴ 7 + 10 = 17 students of Class VII like Hockey and Tennis. (c) Total number of students in Class VII = 7 + 16 + 18 + 10 + 14 = 65 (d) For Cricket only, the number of students of Class VII is less than that of Class VIII. (e) For Hockey Football, Tennis and Badminton i.e., 4 sports, students of Class VIII are less than that of Class VII. (f) Number of students like Badminton in Class VII = 14 Number of students like Tennis in Class VIII = 7 ∴ Required ratio = 14/7 = 2/1 i.e., 2:1. |
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Observe the adjacent bar graph and answer the following.i) Which fruit most of the people like ?ii) How many people likes banana? |
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Answer» i) Most of the people liked Apple. ii) 10. |
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Study the double bar graph and answer the questions that follow:(a) What information does the double bar graph represent?(b) Find the total number of boys in all sections of Class VII.(c) in which sections, the number of girls is greater than the number of boys?(d) In which section, the number of boys is the maximum?(e) in which section, the number of girls is the least? |
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Answer» (a) The double bar graph represents the information about the number of girls and boys in different sections of Class VII (b) Total number of boys in all sections of Class VIII = 15 + 30 + 20 + 20 + 25 =110 (c) In sections A and D, the number of girls is greater than the number of boys. (d) In section B, the number of boys is the maximum. (e) In section C, the number of girls is the least. |
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In a school, only 2 out of 5 students can participate in a quiz. What is the chance that a student picked at random makes it to the competition?(a) 20% (b) 40% (c) 50% (d) 30% |
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Answer» (b) 40% From the question it is given that, in a school, only 2 out of 5 students can participate in a quiz. So, the chance that a student picked at random = 2/5 Then percentage = 2/5 × 100 = 0.4 × 100 = 40 % |
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Write two properties of a histogram. |
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State whether True or False:1. Bars are at equal distance in a histogram.2. The difference between upper limit and lower limit is called range.3. The meaning of organizing the data in systematic way is to arrange them in ascending or descending order.4. Frequency is which shows that a particular entry is repeated how many times in the data5. The class interval, which has minimum frequency is called mode class interval. |
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Answer» 1. True |
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To show which type of data you will need a histogram?(i) Quantity of different types of cereals available at home.(ii) Height of all students of your school.(iii) Number of cars manufacture by, 5 companies.(iv) Number of vehicles passing a busy cross road between 8:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.(v) Distance between home to school of all students of your class, (in metres). |
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Answer» We use histogram to show the data of (ii), (iv) and (v). |
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The difference between the highest and the lowest observations in a data is its(a) frequency (b) width (c) range (d) mode |
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Answer» (c) Since, Range = Highest observation – Lowest observation |
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Given below is a histogram between number of families and their expenditure. From this histogram 16.5 we can tell(i) How many families have minimum expenditure?(ii) How many families have maximum expenditure?(iii) How many families have their expenditure less than Rs. 4000? |
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Answer» (i) 10 families. (ii) 80 families. (iii) 130 families (= 10 + 30 + 50 + 40). |
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The bar graph given below shows the marks of students of a class in a particular subject:Study the bargraph and answer the following questions:(a) If 40 is the pass mark, then how many students have failed?(b) How many students got marks from 50 to 69?(c) How many students scored 90 marks and above?(d) If students who scored marks equal to or above 80 are given merits then how many merit holders are there?(e) What is the strength of the class? |
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Answer» (a) Number of students scored marks below 40 i.e., 30-39 ate 4 . 4 students have failed. (b) Number of students got marks from 50 to 59 is 7 and number of students got marks from 60 to 69 is 11. ∴ 7 + 11 = 18 students got marks from 50 to 69. (c) 4 students scored marks from 90 and above. (d) Number of students got marks from 80 to 89 is 6. Number of students got marks from 90 to 92 is 4. ∴ 6 + 4 = 10 students are merit holders. (e) Total number of students in the class = 4 + 2 +7 + 11 + 8 + 6 + 4 = 42 |
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Out of 5 brands of chocolates in a shop, a boy has to purchase the brand which is most liked by children. What measure of central tendency would be most appropriate if the data is provided to him?(a) Mean (b) Mode(c) Median (d) Any of the three |
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Answer» (b) Mode Mode is the observation that occurs most frequently in the data. |
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The number of hours for which students of a particular class watched television during holidays is shown through the given graph. We draw the histogram for above frequency table:Answer the following:(i) For how many hours did the maximum number of students watch T.V.?(ii) How many students watched TV for less than 4 hours?(iii) How many students spent more than 5 hours in watching TV? |
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Answer» (i) The maximum number of students watched T.V. for 4 – 5 hours. (ii) 34 students watched T.V. for less than 4 hours. (iii) 14 students spent more than 5 hours in watching T.V. |
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A survey was made to find the type of music that a certain group of young people liked in a city. Adjoining pie chart shows the findings of this survey. From this pie chart, answer the following:(i) If 20 people liked classical music, how many young people were surveyed?(ii) Which type of music is liked by the maximum number of people? (iii) If a cassette company were to make 1000 CD’s, how many of each type would they make? |
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Answer» (i) 10% represents 100 people. Therefore 20% represents = 100 x 20/10 = 200 pepole Hence, 200 people were surveyed. (ii) Light music is liked by the maximum number of people. (iii) CD’s of classical music = 10 x 1000/100 = 100 CD’s of semi-classical music = 20 x 1000/100 = 100 CD’s of light music = 40 x 1000/100 = 400 CD’s of folk music = 30 x 1000/100 = 300 |
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Prepare a frequency table of the following ages (in years) of 30 students of class VIII in your school: 13, 14, 13, 12, 14, 13, 14, 15, 13, 14, 13, 14, 16, 12, 14 13, 14, 15, 16, 13, 14, 13, 12, 17, 13, 12, 13, 13, 13, 14 |
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Answer» Frequency distribution table:
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The following data represents the weekly wages (in Rs) of 15 workers in a factory :900, 850, 800, 850, 800, 750, 950, 900, 950, 800, 750, 900, 750, 800 and 850.Prepare a frequency distribution table. Now find,(i) how many workers are getting less than Rs 850 per week?(ii) how many workers are getting more than Rs 800 per week? |
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Answer» The required frequency table will be as shown below :
(i) Workers getting less than Rs 850 per week No. of workers getting Rs 750 = 3 workers No. of workers getting Rs 800 = 4 works ∴ Workers getting less than Rs 850 = 4 + 3 = 7 workers (ii) Workers are getting more than Rs 800 per week No. of workers getting Rs 850 = 3 No. of workers getting Rs 900 = 3 No. of workers getting Rs 950 = 2 ∴ Workers getting more than Rs 800 = 3 + 3 + 2 = 8 worker |
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In a study of number of accidents per day, the observations for 30 days were obtained as follows: 6 3 5 6 4 3 2 5 4 2 4 2 1 2 2 0 5 4 6 1 6 0 5 3 6 1 5 5 2 6 Prepare a frequency distribution table. |
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Answer» Required frequency table for given data:
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In a study of number of accidents per day, the observations for 30 days were obtained as follows :6, 3, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 5, 4, 2, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 0, 5, 4, 6, 1, 6, 0, 5, 3, 6, 1, 5, 5, 2, 6Prepare a frequency distribution table. |
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Answer» Given that, 6, 3, 5, 6, 4, 3, 2, 5, 4, 2, 4, 2, 1, 2, 2, 0, 5, 4, 6, 1, 6, 0, 5, 3, 6, 1, 5, 5, 2, 6 From the above set we can observe that 0 occurs for 2 times,1 occurs for 3times, 2 occurs for 6times, 3 occurs for 3times, 4 occurs for 4times, 5 occurs for 6times, 6 occurs for 6 times. The frequency table for the number of accidents per day for a period of 30 days is shown below:
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State whether the given statements are true (T) or false (F). In a bar graph, the gap between two consecutive bars may not be the same. |
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Answer» False. In a bar graph, bars of uniform width are drawn horizontally or vertically with equal spacing between them. |
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In a bar graph, bars of ________ width can be drawn horizontally or vertically with ________ spacing between them. |
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Answer» In a bar graph, bars of Uniform width can be drawn horizontally or vertically with Equal spacing between them. |
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State whether the given statements are true (T) or false (F).In a bar graph, bars of uniform width are drawn vertically only. |
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Answer» False. In a bar graph, bars of uniform width are drawn horizontally or vertically with equal spacing between them. |
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state whether the given statements are true (T) or false (F).In a bar graph, bars of uniform width are drawn vertically only. |
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Answer» In a bar graph, bars of uniform width are drawn vertically only.False |
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State whether the given statements are true (T) or false (F).In a bar graph, the width of bars may be unequal. |
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Answer» False. In a bar graph, bars of uniform width are drawn horizontally or vertically with equal spacing between them. |
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Fill in the blanks to make the statements true:In a bar graph, bars of ________ width can be drawn horizontally or vertically with ________ spacing between them. |
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Answer» In a bar graph, bars of uniform width can be drawn horizontally or vertically with equal spacing between them. |
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Find the median and mode of the data: 35, 32, 35, 42, 38, 32, 34. |
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Answer» Arranging the data in ascending order such that same numbers are put together, we get: 32, 32, 34, 35, 35, 38, 42 Here, n = 7 Therefore median = ((n+1)/2)th term Median = value of 4th term Median = 35 Here, 32 and 35, both occur twice. Therefore, 32 and 35 are the two modes. |
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State whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).The class size of the class interval 60 – 68 is 8. |
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Answer» True. The difference between the upper and lower limit of a class interval is called the Size of the class interval. i.e. 68 – 60 = 8 |
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Find the median of the following data83, 37, 70, 29, 45, 63, 41, 70, 34, 54 |
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Answer» First we have to arrange given data into ascending order, 29, 34, 37, 41, 45, 54, 63, 70, 70, 83 Given number of observations, n = 10 (even) Therefore median = (n/2)th term + ((n + 1)/2)th term Median = (value of 5th term + value of 6th term)/2 = (45 + 54)/2 = 49.5 Hence median for given data = 49.5 |
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Find the median of the following data31, 38, 27, 28, 36, 25, 35, 40 |
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Answer» First we have to arrange given data into ascending order 25, 27, 28, 31, 35, 36, 38, 40 Given number of observations, n = 8 (even) Therefore median = (n/2)th term + ((n + 1)/2)th term Median = (value of 4th term + value of 5th term)/2 = (31 + 35)/2 = 33 Hence median for given data = 33 |
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The median of the data 40, 50, 99, 68, 98, 60, 94 is (a) 40 (b) 60 (c) 68 (d) 99 |
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Answer» Correct answer is (c) 68. |
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Find the median of the following data133, 73, 89, 108, 94,104, 94, 85, 100, 120 |
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Answer» First we have to arrange given data into ascending order, 73, 85, 89, 94, 100, 104, 108, 120, 133 Given number of observations, n = 10 (even) Therefore median = (n/2)th term + ((n + 1)/2)th term Median = (value of 5th term + value of 6th term)/2 = (94 + 100)/2 = 97 Hence median for given data = 97 |
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Draw a histogram for the frequency table made for the data in Question 3 and answer the following questions. (i) Which group has the maximum number of workers? (ii) How many workers earn ₹ 850 and more? (iii) How many workers earn less than ₹ 850? |
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Answer» (i) 830 – 840 group has the maximum number of workers. (ii) 10 workers can earn more than ₹ 850. (iii) 20 workers earn less than ₹ 850. |
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What is the probability of the sun setting tomorrow? |
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Answer» It is certain that sun setting every evening ∴ Probability of sun setting tomorrow is 1. |
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Find the median of the given data if the mean is 4.5.5, 7, 7, 8, x, 5, 4, 3, 1, 2 |
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Answer» The data is 5, 7, 7, 8, 1,5, 4, 3, 1, 2 Mean = Sum of all observations/ Number of observations 4.5 = (5+7+7+8+x+5+4+3+1+2)/10 45 = x +42 x = 45-42 = 3 Now, arranging the data in ascending order, we get Since, observations are even in number. ∴ Median = Mean of two middle most observations = (4+5)/2 = 9/2 = 4.5 |
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Median of the data: 4, 5, 9, 2, 6, 8, 7 is 2. |
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Answer» False Median of the data: 4, 5, 9, 2, 6, 8, 7 is 2. |
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State whether the statements are True or False .The mode of the observations 23, 26, 15, 12, 28, 38, 19, 23, 26, 23 is 28. |
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Answer» False. The mode of the observations 23, 26, 15, 12, 28, 38, 19, 23, 26, 23 is 28. |
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A cricketer scored the runs in 6 innings as follows : 68, 03, 17, 78, 12, 104. Find the arithmetic mean of runs scored. |
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Answer» Mean = Sum of runs/ No. of innings = (68 + 03 + 17 + 78 + 12 + 104)/6 = 282/6 = 47 |
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