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Application
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If the resultant of two forces of magnitude and is perpendicular to , then the angle between the forces is
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Correct option: A
Option A, , is correct because it is the angle between the forces that satisfies the condition that the resultant is perpendicular to P.
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Easy
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The mean deviation of any series is 15 , then the value of quartile deviation is
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Correct option: C
12.5
Option C (12.5) is correct because it is the quartile deviation calculated using the relationship between mean deviation and quartile deviation.
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The average weight of 25 boys was calculated to be . It was later discovered that one weight was misread as instead of . The correct average is
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Correct option: B
Option B (79.48 kg) is correct because it represents the corrected average weight after accounting for the misread weight.
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The mean of observations is . If one observation is added, then the mean remains same. The value of is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because if adding a new observation doesn't change the mean, the new observation must be equal to the original mean.
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Mode of data is
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Correct option: C
5
Option C (5) is correct because the mode is the value that appears most frequently in the data set, and 5 appears 5 times, which is more than any other value.
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If the standard deviation of a variable is , then the standard deviation of another variable is
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Correct option: B
The correct answer is B () because standard deviation is affected by scaling but not by translation.
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The mean of the n observations be . Then , the mean of n observations is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because multiplying each observation by 2 multiplies the mean by 2, and adding 3 to each observation adds 3 to the mean.
248
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Application
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The two regression lines for a bivariate data are and . If , then is
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Correct option: C
-50
Option C (-50) is correct because the regression lines pass through the mean values (), and given , we can solve for from the first equation.
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Understanding
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If mean and mode of a frequency distribution have same value, then coefficient of skewness is
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Correct option: A
zero
Option A (zero) is correct because the coefficient of skewness measures the asymmetry of a distribution, and if the mean and mode are equal, the distribution is symmetric, resulting in zero skewness.
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If a variable takes values with frequencies then the AM is
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Correct option: D
Option D (n/2) is correct because the weighted average simplifies to n/2 using binomial coefficient properties.
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Variance of the data is 23.33. Then, variance of will be
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Correct option: A
93.32
Option A (93.32) is correct because when each data point is multiplied by a constant, the variance is multiplied by the square of that constant.
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Analyzing
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Let the mean and standard deviation of marks of class of 100 students be respectively 40 and , and the mean and standard deviation of marks of class of students be respectively 55 and . If the mean and variance of the marks of the combined class of students are respectively 50 and 350, then the sum of variances of classes and is:
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Correct option: D
500
Option D (500) is correct because, after setting up equations for the means and variances of the two classes and the combined class, solving for the unknowns yields the sum of the variances of classes A and B as 500.
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Application
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The points scored by a basketball team in a series of matches are as follows:
Its median is
Its median is
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Correct option: C
13.5
Option C (13.5) is correct because the median is the average of the two middle values when the data is arranged in ascending order.
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Out of two lines of regression given by and , the regression of on is
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Correct option: C
they are not lines of regression
The correct answer is "they are not lines of regression" because the product of the regression coefficients is negative, which is impossible.
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If and are regression coefficients of on and on respectively, then
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the arithmetic mean of the regression coefficients is greater than or equal to the correlation coefficient.
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The mean deviation from the mean of the set of observations, -1, 0, 4 is
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Correct option: D
2
Option D (2) is correct because the mean deviation from the mean is calculated by finding the average of the absolute differences between each observation and the mean.
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For the frequency distribution
Variate
Frequency
Where and the standard deviation cannot be
Variate
Frequency
Where and the standard deviation cannot be
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Correct option: C
6
Option C 6 is correct because the standard deviation cannot exceed a certain limit based on the range of the variate, and 6 falls outside this limit.
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Coefficient of skewness for the values
Median is
Median is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because it is calculated using the formula for the coefficient of skewness based on quartiles and median.
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Understanding
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The arithmetic mean of the first natural numbers is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the sum of the first natural numbers is , and dividing by gives the arithmetic mean.
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Application
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Given 5 sample measurement of a part of machine as and 6.37 . The sample variance is
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Correct option: C
0.0004
Option C (0.0004) is correct because the sample variance is calculated using the formula and given measurements, resulting in approximately 0.0004.
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The weighted mean of first natural number if their weight are the same as the number is-
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because the weighted mean is calculated using the formula , where w is the weight and x is the value.
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Application
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A school has four sections of chemistry in class XII having
40, 35, 45 and 42 students. The mean marks obtained in
chemistry test are 50, 60, 55 and 45 respectively for the
four sections, the over all average of marks per students is
40, 35, 45 and 42 students. The mean marks obtained in
chemistry test are 50, 60, 55 and 45 respectively for the
four sections, the over all average of marks per students is
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Correct option: D
52.25
Option D (52.25) is correct because it is the weighted average of the marks obtained by all students.
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If and be the correlation coefficient between , then is equal to
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Correct option: A
The correct answer is A () because it represents the variance of a linear combination of two random variables, considering their correlation.
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If are the geometric means of two series of observations and is the GM of the ratios of the corresponding observations then G is equal to
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the geometric mean of ratios is the ratio of the geometric means.
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Remembering
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If r is Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation between two sets of variates, then
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because Karl Pearson's coefficient of correlation, r, always lies between -1 and +1, inclusive.
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The mean income of a group of persons is . Another group of persons has mean income If the mean income of all the persons in the two groups together is , then ratio of the number of persons in the groups is
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Correct option: A
Option A (n1/n2 = 5/3) is correct because it is derived by setting up a weighted average equation for the combined mean income and solving for the ratio of the number of persons in each group.
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The mean of the values with the corresponding weights respectively is
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Correct option: D
Option D (n/2) is correct because the weighted average simplifies to n/2 using binomial coefficient properties.
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If and then standard deviation of observations , and is equal to:
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Correct option: C
4
Option C (4) is correct because the standard deviation of is twice the standard deviation of , and the standard deviation is not affected by the change of origin.
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If the mean deviation about the median of the numbers , is 50 , then equals
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Correct option: B
4
Option B (4) is correct. The mean deviation about the median is calculated using the given information.
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Let be in an A.P. with common difference . If the standard deviation of is 4 and the mean is , then is equal to:
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Correct option: B
34
Option B (34) is correct because it is the sum of the mean and the 6th term of the A.P., calculated using the given standard deviation.
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