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Application
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The mean weight of 9 items is 15. If one more item is added to the series, the mean becomes 16. The value of 10th item is
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Correct option: C
25
Option C (25) is correct because the value of the 10th item is the difference between the total weight of 10 items and the total weight of 9 items.
392
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If the angle between two forces of equal magnitude is reduced to , then the magnitude of their resultant becomes times of the earlier one. The angle is
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Correct option: B
Option B, , is correct because it satisfies the condition that the resultant becomes times the earlier one when the angle is reduced by .
393
Easy
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Application
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The mean of the values with the corresponding weights respectively, is
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Correct option: D
The correct answer is D () because it represents the mean of the values with the given binomial weights.
394
Easy
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Understanding
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The correlation coefficient 0.5 between and means
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Correct option: B
of variations are explained
Option B is correct because the correlation coefficient squared () represents the proportion of variance in one variable explained by the other. Here, , so 25% of the variations are explained.
395
Easy
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If and are two random variables with the same standard deviation and coefficient of correlation , then the coefficient of correlation between and is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it is derived from the covariance and standard deviations of x and x+y.
396
Easy
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All the students of a class performed poorly in Mathematics. The teacher decided to give grace marks of 10 to each of the students. Which of the following statistical measures will not change even after the grace marks were given?
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Correct option: D
Variance
Option D (Variance) is correct because adding a constant to all data points does not change the variance, as the spread of the data remains the same.
397
Easy
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The mean age of a combined group of men and women is 25 yr. if the mean age of the group of men is 26 and that of the group of women is 21, then the percentage of men and women in the group is
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Correct option: B
80, 20
Option B (80, 20) is correct because the percentage of men and women is calculated by setting up a weighted average equation for the combined mean age.
398
Medium
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The mean of observations is 4.4 and the variance is 8.24 . If three of the five observations are 1,2 and 6 , then find the other two observations.
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Correct option: A
9,4
Option A (9,4) is correct because these values satisfy both the mean and variance equations derived from the given data.
399
Medium
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For a set of 100 observations, taking assumed mean as 4 , the sum of the deviations is , and the sum of the squares of these deviations is . The coefficient of variation is
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Correct option: A
Option A (41.13 %) is correct because the coefficient of variation is calculated correctly using the given data and the assumed mean.
400
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The AM of the series is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it represents the sum of the geometric series divided by the number of terms.
401
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Mean deviation of the series from its mean is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it accurately calculates the mean deviation of the given series from its mean.
402
Medium
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Application
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If two lines of regression are, then is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it is the solution to the system of equations formed by the two regression lines.
403
Easy
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Understanding
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If both the regression lines intersect perpendicularly, then
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because if the regression lines are perpendicular, it means there is no linear relationship between the variables, hence the correlation coefficient is zero.
404
Medium
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Application
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The average weight of a class of 14 students is . If the teacher is included then average weight increases by , then weight of teacher is
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Correct option: B
48
Option B (48) is correct because the teacher's weight is calculated by considering the increase in the average weight when the teacher is included.
405
Easy
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When a particle be kept at rest under the action of the following forces
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Correct option: A
Option A, , is correct because the upward forces sum to equal the downward force, resulting in equilibrium.
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406
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Application
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The correlation coefficient of two variable and is 0.8. The regression coefficient of on is 0.2, than the regression coefficient of on is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is calculated using the formula relating the correlation coefficient and regression coefficients.
407
Hard
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Application
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If the mean of and is 7 , then the mean deviation from the median of these observations is
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Correct option: D
3
Option D (3) is correct. The mean deviation from the median is calculated after finding the missing observation and the median.
408
Medium
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Application
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If the regression coefficient of on and on are -0.4 and -0.9 respectively, then the correlation coefficient between and is
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Correct option: A
-0.6
Option A (-0.6) is correct because the correlation coefficient is the square root of the product of the regression coefficients, and it has the same sign as the regression coefficients.
409
Easy
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Application
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Let be standard deviation of observations. Each observation is multiplied by a constant . The standard deviation of resulting numbers is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because multiplying each observation by a constant multiplies the standard deviation by the absolute value of that constant.
410
Medium
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Analyzing
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Statement-1: The variance of first even natural numbers is .
Statement-2 : The sum of first natural numbers is and the sum of squares of first natural numbers is .
Statement-2 : The sum of first natural numbers is and the sum of squares of first natural numbers is .
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Correct option: C
Statement- 1 is false, Statement- 2 is true.
Statement-1 is false and Statement-2 is true, therefore option C is the correct answer.
411
Medium
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Application
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The quartile deviation of daily wages (in Rs.) of 7 persons given below is
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Correct option: B
2.5
Option B (2.5) is correct because it is the quartile deviation calculated as half the difference between the third and first quartiles.
412
Easy
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If the heights of 5 persons are and respectively, then mean height is-
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the mean height is calculated by summing the heights and dividing by the number of persons.
413
Medium
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Application
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The mean and standard deviation of the marks of 20 students were found to be 40 and 15 respectively. Later, it was discovered that a score of 60 was wrongly read as 40 , then the correct variance will be
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Correct option: D
244
Option D (244) is correct because it calculates the corrected variance after accounting for the error in the student's score.
414
Easy
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Application
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In an experiment with 15 observations onx, the following results were available . One observation that was 20, was found to be wrong and was replaced by the correct value 30. Then, the corrected variance is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is the corrected variance calculated after replacing the incorrect observation with the correct value and using the variance formula.
415
Easy
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Application
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If the first item is increased by 1, second by 2 and so on, then the new mean is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it represents the new mean after increasing each item by its position in the series.
416
Easy
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Application
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The quartile deviation of daily wages of 7 persons which are Rs. 12,7,15,10,17,17,25 is
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Correct option: D
3.5
Option D (3.5) is correct because the quartile deviation is calculated as half the difference between the third and first quartiles.
417
Easy
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Application
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Coefficient of variance of a distribution is and the standard deviation is 25 . The arithmetic mean of the distribution is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the coefficient of variance is defined as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean, allowing us to solve for the mean.
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The average rate of (i) motion in the case of a person who rides the first mile at , the next mile at and the third mile at (ii) increase in population which is the first decade has increased in the next and in the third are (where, , , )
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Correct option: C
Option C (7.66, 28.02) is correct because it calculates the harmonic mean for the speeds and the geometric mean for the population increases.
419
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If the frequencies of first four numbers out of are 2 , , respectively, then the frequency of 8 , if their AM is 5 , is
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Correct option: C
6
Option C (6) is correct because it is the frequency of 8 that results in the given arithmetic mean of 5.
420
Easy
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The mean marks of 120 students is 20. It was later
discovered that two marks were wrongly taken as 50
and 80 instead of 15 and 18. The correct mean of
marks is
discovered that two marks were wrongly taken as 50
and 80 instead of 15 and 18. The correct mean of
marks is
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Correct option: A
19.19
Option A (19.19) is correct because it represents the corrected mean after accounting for the wrongly taken marks.
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