Measures of Central Tendency

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Important Questions on Measures of Central Tendency

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The mean weight of 150 students in a certain class is 60 kg. The mean weight of boys is 70 kg and that of girls is 55 kg. What are the number of boys and girls respectively in the class?

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A car travels first 60 km at a speed of 3v km/h and travels next 60 km at 2v km/h. What is the average speed of the car?

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Consider the following discrete frequency distribution.

x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
f 3 15 45 57 50 36 25 9

What is the value of median of the distribution?

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The arithmetic mean of 100 observations is 40. Later, it was found that an observation 53 was wrongly read as 83. What is the correct arithmetic mean?

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The median of the observations 22 24, 33, 37, x+1, x+3, 46, 47, 57, 58 in ascending order is 42.What are the values of 5th & 6th observations respectively?

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A data set of n observations has mean 2M, while another data set of 2n observations has mean M. What is the mean of the combined data sets?

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The sum of deviations of n number of observations measured from 2.5 is 50. The sum of deviations of the same set of observations measured from 3.5 is -50. What is the value of n?

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The numbers 4 and 9 have frequencies x and (x-1) respectively. If their arithmetic mean is 6, then what is the value of x?

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Consider the following statements
1. The algebraic sum of deviations of a set of values from their arithmetic mean is always zero.
2. Arithmetic mean > Median > Mode for a symmetric distribution.

Which of the above statements is/are correct?