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The S.D. of the following data is nearly

xi 140 145 150 155 160 165 170 175
fi 4 6 15 30 36 24 8 2

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Important Questions on Statistics

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Let x¯M and σ2 be respectively the mean, mode and variance of n observations x1, x2,...., xn and di=-xi-a, i=1, 2,...., n, where a is any number.

Statement I: Variance of d1, d2,..., dn is σ 2 .

Statement II: Mean and mode of d1, d2,...., dn are -x¯-a and -M-a, respectively.

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The mean of five observations is 5 and their variance is 9.20. If three of the given five observations are 1, 3 and 8, then a ratio of other two observations is
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The variance of the first 50 even natural numbers is :
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If the standard deviation of the numbers 2, 3, a and 11 is 3.5, then which of the following is true ?
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If the mean and standard deviation of 5 observations x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 are 10 and 3, respectively, then the variance of 6 observations x1, x2, , x5 and -50 is equal to
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The mean of 5 observations is 5 and their variance is 12.4. If three of the observations are 1,2 & 6; then the value of the remaining two is :
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The mean deviation from the mean of the set of observations, -1, 0, 4 is
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A student scores the following marks in five tests: 45,54,41,57,43. His score is not known for the sixth test. If the mean score is 48 in the six tests, then the standard deviation of the marks in six tests is
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The mean and the standard deviation S.D. of five observations are 9 and 0, respectively. If one of the observation is increased such that the mean of the new set of five observations becomes 10, then their S.D. is
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The sum of 100 observations and the sum of their squares are  400 & 2475, respectively. Later on, three observations 3, 4 & 5 were found to be incorrect. If the incorrect observations are omitted, then the variance of the remaining observations is
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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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The mean and the variance of five observations are 4 and 5.20, respectively. If three of the observations are 3,4 and 4; then the absolute value of the difference of the other two observations, is :
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If the mean deviation of the numbers 1, 1+d,, 1+100d from their mean is 255, then a value of d is :
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If i=19xi5=9 and i=19xi52=45, then the standard deviation of the 9 items x1, x2,.,x9 is
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If the variance of the first n natural numbers is 10 and the variance of the first m even natural numbers is 16, then the value of  m+n is equal to
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The mean and variance for seven observations are 8 and 16 respectively. If 5 of the observations are 2,4,10,12,14, then the product of the remaining two observations is
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If the standard deviation of the numbers -1, 0, 1, k is 5 where k>0, then k is equal to
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Let n3 . A list of numbers 0<x1<x2<<xn has mean μ and standard deviation σ . A new list of numbers is made as follows: y1=0, y2=x2,.,yn-1=xn-1,yn=x1+xn . The mean and the standard deviation of the new list are μ^ & σ^ . Which of the following is necessarily true?
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A box contains 15 green and 10 yellow balls. If 10 balls are randomly drawn, one-by-one, with replacement, then the variance of the number of green balls drawn is:
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A data consists of n observations: x1, x2,  , xn. If i=1nxi+12=9n and i=1nxi-12=5n, then the standard deviation of this data is