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This document contains a model question paper for Statistics for Higher Secondary 1st Year students. It has 4 parts with a total of 38 questions testing different concepts in statistics. Part 1 contains 15 multiple choice questions testing definitions and basic statistical concepts. Part 2 has 6 short answer questions. Part 3 contains 6 long answer questions, including questions on sampling, diagrams, and calculations. Part 4 requires answering 5 long form questions, including word problems and calculations like finding quartiles, standard deviation, and regression equations.

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Statistics - English

This document contains a model question paper for Statistics for Higher Secondary 1st Year students. It has 4 parts with a total of 38 questions testing different concepts in statistics. Part 1 contains 15 multiple choice questions testing definitions and basic statistical concepts. Part 2 has 6 short answer questions. Part 3 contains 6 long answer questions, including questions on sampling, diagrams, and calculations. Part 4 requires answering 5 long form questions, including word problems and calculations like finding quartiles, standard deviation, and regression equations.

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HIGHER SECONDARY IST YEAR

STATISTICS
MODEL QUESTION PAPER

Time - 2 Hrs Max. Marks - 70

PART - I 15 x 1 = 15
Answer all the Questions
I. Choose the Best Answer
1. Statistics may be called the Science of Counting is the definition given by
a) Croxton b) A.L.Bowley c) Boddington d) Webster
2. Simple random Sample can be drawn with the help of
a) Slip method b) Random number table c) Calculator d) All the above
3. The headings of the rows given in the first column of a table are called
a) Stubs b) Captions c) Titles d) Reference notes
4. If the lower and upper limits of a class are 10 and 40 respectively, the mid points of the
class is
a) 15.0 b) 12.5 c) 25.0 d) 30.0
5. Which Maps are used to give quantitative information as a geographical basis
a) Pictogram b) Cartogram c) Histogram d) Pie diagram
6. Histogram is useful to determine graphically the value of
a) Mean b) Median c) Mode d) All the above
7. What Percentage of values lies between 5th and 25th Percentiles?
a) 5% b) 20% c) 30% d) 75%
8. Which measure of dispersion ensures highest degree of reliability?
a) Range b) Mean deviation c) Q.D d) S.D
9. Variance is 36, the standard deviation is
a) 6 b) 6 c) 0.6 d) 3.6
10. Limits for correlation coefficient
a) 1 1 b) 0 1 c) 1 0 d) 1 2
11. The nature of correlation for Shoe Size and IQ is
a) Positive Correlation b) Negative Correlation
c) No Correlation d) None of these
4 9
12. If 2 regression coefficients are b1= and b2 = what would be the value of r ?
5 20

a) 0.06 b) 0.6 c) 0.6 d) 6


13. Regression coefficient is independent of
a) Origin b) Scale
c) Both origin and scale d) neither origin nor scale
14. Most Preferred type of average for index number is
a) arithmetic Mean b) geometric mean
c) harmonic Mean d) none of the above
15. Laspeyres Price index 4% and Paasche Price index number is 16% then the Fishers
ideal index number is
a) 8% b) 64% c) 0.8% d) 6.4%

PART - II 6 x 2 = 12
Answer any Six Questions
Question 23 is compulsory
16. Write the definition of statistics given by Horace Secrist
17. What are the main objects of classification?
18. What is an array?
19. What is Lorenz curve?
20. From the given data calculate HM
5, 10, 17, 24, 30
21. What are the uses of Index numbers?
22. Distinguish between Positive and Negative correlation
23. If the mean and median of a moderately asymmetrical Series are 35 and 36
respectively, what would be its most Probable mode?
24. Write any two Demerits of Arithmetic Mean
PART - III 6 x 3 = 18
Answer any Six Questions
Question 30 is compulsory
25. State the Principles of Sampling
26. What are the essential Characteristics of a good table?
27. Write the types of class intervals
28. Draw a Pie diagram for the following data of Production of Sugar in quintals of
Various Countries

Country Production of Sugar


(in quintals)
Cuba 62
Australia 47
India 35
Japan 16
Egypt 6

29. Compute median for the following data


Mid Value 5 15 25 35 45 55 65 75
Frequency 7 10 15 17 8 4 6 7

30. Compute Bowleys coefficient of Skewness from the following data


Size 5-7 8-10 11-13 14-16 17-19
Frequency 14 24 38 20 4

31. Explain the types of correlation


32. Write the differences between Arithmetic mean and Geometric mean
33. Write the difference between correlation and Regression
PART - IV 5 x 5 = 25

Answer all the Questions

34. Explain how Statistics used in our daily life


(or)
The Following Series relates to the marks secured by students in an examination. Find
the Quartiles
Marks No. of Students
0-10 11
10-20 18
20-30` 25
30-40 28
40-50 30
50-60 33
60-70 22
70-80 15
80-90 12
90-100 10

35. Write the Methods of selection of a Simple random Sampling


(or)
Write the Characteristics of a good questionnaire
36. The ages of 20 husband and wives are given below. Form a two way frequency table
on the basis of ages of husbands and wives with the class intervals 20-25, 25-30

Age of Age of wife


Age of Age of wife husband
husband 28 23
27 24 37 30
39 34 42 40
23 20 25 26
33 31 29 25
36 29 47 41
32 35 37 35
22 23 35 25
29 29
23 21
38 34
41 38
48 47

(or)
Explain the types of diagrams

37. Calculate S.D from the following Series


Class interval 5-15 15-25 25-35 35-45 45-55
Frequency 8 12 15 9 6

(or)

Compute the two regression equations from the following data


X 1 2 3 4 5
Y 2 3 5 4 6

If x = 2.5, what will be the value of y?


38. From the following data, calculate the coefficient of rank correlation
X 36 56 20 65 42 33 44 50 15 60
Y 50 35 70 25 58 75 60 45 80 38

(or)
Calculate Fisher ideal index for the following data. Also test whether it Satisfies time
reversal test and factor reversal test.

Price Quantity
Commodity 2000 2002 2000 2002
A 6 35 10 40
B 10 25 12 30
C 12 15 8 20

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