Collection of Data

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Collection of Data: Overview

This topic covers concepts such as Primary Data, Secondary Data, Raw Data, and Statistics.

Important Questions on Collection of Data

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

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Data collected on religion from the census reports are

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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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Census reports are used as a source of _________ data

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

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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?

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Out of 1000 persons, 25 per cent were industrial workers and the rest were agricultural workers. 300 persons enjoyed world cup matches on TV. 30 per cent of the people who had not watched world cup matches were industrial workers. What is the number of agricultural workers who had enjoyed world cup matches on TV?

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The distribution of profits of a company follows

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Most of the commonly used frequency curves are

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Frequency curve is a limiting form of

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A comparison among the class frequencies is possible only in

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Median of a distribution can be obtained from