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Statistics Exam for Students

This document contains instructions and questions for a basic statistics midterm exam. It is divided into three parts. Part I contains 5 multiple choice questions about statistical concepts like median, mode, standard deviation, and variance. Part II contains 3 fill-in-the-blank questions about deciles, coefficient of variation, and geometric mean. Part III contains 2 longer answer questions, one asking to calculate mean, median, and mode from data and interpret other statistics, and another comparing income data between two villages.

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Statistics Exam for Students

This document contains instructions and questions for a basic statistics midterm exam. It is divided into three parts. Part I contains 5 multiple choice questions about statistical concepts like median, mode, standard deviation, and variance. Part II contains 3 fill-in-the-blank questions about deciles, coefficient of variation, and geometric mean. Part III contains 2 longer answer questions, one asking to calculate mean, median, and mode from data and interpret other statistics, and another comparing income data between two villages.

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Haramaya University

College of Computing and Informatics


Department of Statistics

Course: Basic Statistics


Mid Exam

Time allowed 1:30 hrs

Instructions:

1. Write all your answers as per the instructions given in each section.
2. Unreadable answer has no mark.
3. Any form of cheating will nullify your result.

Name: ____________________________________

ID No: ______________________

Best wishes!!

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I. Choose the best answer from the following alternatives (2 marks each)

1. Which of the following represents median?


a) First Quartile b) Fiftieth Percentile c) Sixth decile d) Third quartile
2. Shoe size of most of the people in Ethiopia is 41. Which measure of central value does it
represent?
a) mean b) second quartile c) eighth decile d) mode
3. The middle value of an ordered series is called :
a). 2nd quartile b) 5th decile c) 50th percentile d) all the above
4. Which of the following is a unitless measure of dispersion?
(a) Standard deviation (b) Mean deviation (c) Coefficient of variation (d) Range
5. The mean of squared deviations about the mean is called
(a) Standard deviation (b) Variance (c) Mean deviation (d) None
II: Fill in the blank space (2 marks each)

6. ________________divides a given observation into 10 equal regions.

7. _________________ is standard deviation divided by the mean, expressed as a


percentage.
8. ______________ mean is used when data are given in sequences, ratios or percent
changes.

Part III Workout

9. The following table gives the marks obtained by 89 students in Statistics.

Marks 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49


No. of students 4 6 10 16 21 18 9 5
(a) Find the mean, median and the mode?
(b) Find Q2, D5, and P50 and interpret the results?

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10. The income of two villages’ people are given below (6 marks)
Village
A B
No. of people 600 500
Average income 175 186
Variance of income 100 81

i) In which village the variation in income is greater? Interpret your result.


ii) Compute the standard error of mean income for both villages and interpret your
result.
iii) Compute standard score of the two villages and interpret the result.

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