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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.
272
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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.
273
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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.
274
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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.
275
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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.
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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.
277
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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.
278
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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.
279
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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.
280
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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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The mean and the standard deviation (s.d.) of 10 observations are 20 and 2 respectively. Each of these 10 observations is multiplied by and then reduced by where and If the new mean and new s.d. become half of their original values, then is equal to
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Correct option: D
-20
Option D (-20) is correct because it is the value of q that satisfies the given conditions for the new mean and standard deviation.
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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 yr and that of the group of women is 21 yr, then the percentage of men and women in the group are respectively
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Correct option: B
80, 20
Option B (80, 20) is correct because the percentages of men and women are calculated using the combined mean formula.
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The mean of 6 distinct observation is 6.5 and their variance is 10.25. if 4 out of 6 observations are 2, 4, 5 and 7, then the remaining two observations are
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Correct option: A
10, 11
Option A (10, 11) is correct because it satisfies both the mean and variance conditions given the other four observations.
284
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The median of the following items and 20 is
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Correct option: C
25
Option C (25) is correct because it is the middle value when the data is arranged in ascending order.
285
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The S.D. of the series is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it's the correct formula for the standard deviation of an arithmetic series.
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The geometric mean of the series , is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it represents the geometric mean of the given series.
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The average of the squares of the numbers is
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Correct option: B
Option B () is correct because it is the average of the squares of the numbers from 0 to n.
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The mean and standard deviation of 50 observations are 15 and 2 respectively. It was found that one incorrect observation was taken such that the sum of correct and incorrect observations is 70. If the correct mean is 16, then the correct variance is equal to:
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Correct option: C
43
Option C (43) is correct because it represents the correct variance after adjusting for the incorrect observation and the correct mean.
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If of items are less than 10 and are more than 40 , then coefficient of quartile deviation is
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Correct option: D
Option D () is correct because the coefficient of quartile deviation is calculated as (Q3-Q1)/(Q3+Q1) = (40-10)/(40+10) = 3/5.
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The mean and variance of 7 observations are 8 and 16, respectively. If five observations are 2, 4, 10, 12, 14, then the absolute difference of the remaining two observations is
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Correct option: D
2
The correct answer is D (2) because it is the absolute difference between the two remaining observations, calculated using the given mean and variance.
291
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The two lines of regression are and . The coefficient of correlation between and is
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Correct option: A
-0.82
Option A (9.6 m/h) is correct because the average speed is calculated using the harmonic mean of the given speeds.
292
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The standard deviation of n observations is 2. If , then n is
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Correct option: C
Option C (5 or 20) is correct because these are the possible values of n that satisfy the given conditions for the standard deviation and sums.
293
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The mean of 18 observations is 7 and if in each observation 5 is added, then the new mean will be
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Correct option: B
12
Option B (12) is correct because adding a constant to each observation increases the mean by the same constant.
294
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The median of 19 observations of a group is 30. If two observations with values 8 and 32 are further included, then the median of the new group of 21 observations will be
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Correct option: B
30
Option B (30) is correct because adding two observations, one smaller and one larger than the median, does not change the position of the middle element in the ordered set.
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Understanding
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The mode of a set of observations , is
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Correct option: C
9
Option C (9) is correct because 9 appears most frequently in the given set of observations.
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The standard deviation of the numbers 31, 32, 33,…., 46, 47 is
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Correct option: C
Option C () is correct because it represents the standard deviation of the given series of consecutive integers.
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For a series, the value of mean deviation is 15 . The most likely value of its quartile deviation is
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Correct option: A
12.5
Option A (12.5) is correct because it is the most likely value of quartile deviation given the mean deviation is 15, using the relationship between MD, QD, and SD.
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The two lines of regression are and and variance of is 9 . The standard deviation of series is
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Correct option: C
4
Option A ( or ) is correct because the mean of x and y series is found by solving the regression equations with the condition that the means are equal.
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Combined mean of two series and , when is
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Correct option: C
170
Option D (170) is correct because the combined mean is calculated using the formula for combined mean.
300
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The arithmetic mean of first odd natural numbers is
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Correct option: A
Option A () is correct because the sum of the first n odd natural numbers is , and dividing by n gives the mean as n.
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