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If the mean and variance of six observations 7,10,11,15,a,b are 10 and 203, respectively, then the value of |a-b| is equal to:

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Important Questions on Statistics

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Consider the following frequency distribution:

Class: 0-6 6-12 12-18 18-24 24-30
Frequency: a b 12 9 5

If mean =30922 and median =14, then the value (a-b)2 is equal to

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Consider the following frequency distribution :

class 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60
Frequency α 110 54 30 β

If the sum of all frequencies is 584 and median is 45, then |α-β| is equal to            .

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The first of the two samples in a group has 100 items with mean 15 and standard deviation 3. If the whole group has 250 items with mean 15.6 and standard deviation 13.44, then the standard deviation of the second sample is:
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If the mean and variance of the following data: 6,10,7,13,a,12,b,12 are 9 and 374 respectively, then a-b2 is equal to:
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Let the mean and variance of the frequency distribution

x: x1=2 x2=6 x3=8 x4=9
f: 4 4 α β

be 6 and 6.8 respectively. If x3 is changed from 8 to 7, then the mean for the new data will be:

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Consider three observations a,b and c such that b=a+c. If the standard deviation of a+2, b+2, c+2 is d, then which of the following is true?
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Consider the statistics of two sets of observations as follows:

  Size Mean Variance
Observation I 10 2 2
Observation II n 3 1

If the variance of the combined set of these two observations is 179, then the value of n is equal to ________.

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Consider a set of 3n numbers having variance 4. In this set, the mean of first 2n numbers is 6 and the mean of the remaining n numbers is 3. A new set is constructed by adding 1 into each of the first 2n numbers, and subtracting 1 from each of the remaining n numbers. If the variance of the new set is k, then 9k is equal to ______.