ASSIGNMENT NO.
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1.Find the mean of the first 10 odd integers
2.What is the median of the following data set?
32, 6, 21, 10, 8, 11, 12, 36, 17, 16, 15, 18, 40, 24, 21, 23, 24, 24, 29, 16, 32, 31, 10, 30, 35, 32, 18, 39, 12, 20
3. Identify the mode for the following data set:
21, 19, 62, 21, 66, 28, 66, 48, 79, 59, 28, 62, 63, 63, 48, 66, 59, 66, 94, 79, 19, 94
4. Consider the following frequency distribution. Calculate the mean weight of students.
Weight (in kg) 31-35 36 – 40 41 – 45 46 – 50 51 – 55 56 – 60 61 – 65 66 – 70
Number of 9 6 15 23 19 12 8 6
Students
5. Find the mean for the following distribution.
xi 15 21 27 30 35
fi 3 5 6 7 8
6. Calculate the median marks of students from the following distribution.
Marks 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 60 – 70 70 – 80
Number 7 10 10 20 20 15 8
of
Students
7. If the median of a distribution given below is 28.5, then find the value of x and y.
Class 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60 Total
Frequency 5 x 20 15 y 5 60
8. For a moderately skewed distribution, the mean and median are respectively 26.8 and 27.9. What is the
mode of the distribution?
9. If the mean of the given frequency distribution is 35, then find the missing frequency y. Also, calculate the
median and mode for the distribution.
Class 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50 50 – 60
Frequency 2 4 7 y 1
10. Find the mean, median and mode of the following data:
23, 18, 24, 23, 31, 37, 28, 30, 25, 40, 35, 35, 27, 25
11. The mileage (km per litre) of 50 cars of the same model was tested by a manufacturer, and details are tabulated
as given below:Find the mean mileage.
The manufacturer claimed that the mileage of the model was 16 km/litre. Do you agree with this claim?
Mileage (km/l) 10 – 12 12 – 14 14 – 16 16 – 18
Number of cars 7 12 18 13
12. Find the median of the following frequency distribution.
xi 15 20 22 17 30 25
fi 6 9 4 4 10 6
13. Calculate the mode for the following distribution.
Cl 40-45 45-50 50-55 55-60 60-65 65-70 70-75 75-80
Frequency 4 4 13 5 6 5 2 1
14. Suppose the mean and median of distribution are 10.14 and 8, respectively. Find the mode of the distribution
using the empirical relationship between mean, median and mode.
15. Distinguish between central tendency and measure of central tendency
16. What are the desirable properties of a good measure of central tendency?
17. Define various measures of central tendency.
18. Define weighted Arithmetic mean and give the formula for calculating weighted AM
