Basics of Statistics

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Basics of Statistics: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Statistics, Representation of Data, Representation of Discrete Data, Tabular Representation of Data, Ungrouped Frequency Distribution, Grouped Frequency Distribution Having Discrete Classes, etc.

Important Questions on Basics of Statistics

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Direction: Study the following chart to answers these questions. Slum Population as a percent of the total population
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The difference in the slum populations of city G and city F is equal to_____.

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Direction: Study the following chart to answers these questions. Slum Population as percent of total population
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The city with the highest slum population was

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____means separating items according to similar characteristics grouping them into various classes.

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You are an auditor of a firm and the firm earns a profit Rs. 67,000/- you stated to them that the annual profit is Rs. 67,000. This is_________ type of statics.

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The average of salaries in a factory is Rs. 47,000. The statement that the average salary Rs. 47,000 is __________

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Seasonal variations can occur within a period of

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The sale of cold drink could go up in summers and go down in the winters is an example of _____.

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The mean of the n observations x1,x2,x3,,xn be x¯. Then, the mean of n observations 2x1+3,2x2+3,2x3+3,,2xn+3 is

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Which graph is used to represent data in continuous elements?

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Classify the following variables as discrete and continuous.

Annual salary of all the workers in a company.

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Classify the following variables in discrete and continuous.

Temperature recorded in NYC throughout the day.

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The intersection point of less than ogive and more than ogive gives::

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The different flavours of ice creams cones sold in a fair is given:

Ice cream flavour Butterscotch Vanilla strawberry Kesar-pista Fruit and nut Black berry Chocolate
Number of cones 50 65 65 70 80 75 90

Represent the data in a proper chart.

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Explain different ways to represent discrete data.

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Number of girls in different classes of a school are given. Represent the data by a bar graph

Number of girls 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Class 50 45 48 60 65 55 50 45 42 40

 

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The following data relate to the marks of a group of students :

Marks : Below 10 Below 20 Below 30 Below 40 Below 50
No. of student : 15 38 65 84 100

How many students got marks more than 30 ?

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Graph is a

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The number of accidents for seven days in a locality are given below:

No. of accidents : 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency : 15 19 22 31 9 3 2

What is the number of cases when 3 or less accidents occurred?

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Cost of sugar in a month under the heads raw materials, labour, direct production and others were 12, 20, 35 and 23 units respectively. What is the difference between the central angles for the largest and smallest components of the cost of sugar?

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A sample study of the people of an area revealed that total number of women were 40% and the percentage of coffee drinkers were 45 as a whole and the percentage of male coffee drinkers was 20. What was the percentage of female non-coffee drinkers?