Measures of Central Tendency

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Measures of Central Tendency: Overview

This topic contains concepts like Measures of Central Tendency, Mean or Average of Ungrouped Data, Median of Ungrouped Data and Median when Number of Data is Even.

Important Questions on Measures of Central Tendency

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In the following table, the ages (in years) of 40 students are given. Find the median.

Age (in years) 10 12 14 16 18
Number of students 4 8 12 6 10

 

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Find the median from the following table:

Terms 4 7 10 12
Frequency 5 8 10 1

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Find the median of the following numbers:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

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Find the median of the following numbers:

2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18

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Find the median of the following numbers:

23,20,22,19,17,22,14,16,15

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Find the median from the following table:

Term 3 4 6 8 12
Frequency 2 5 4 5 3

 

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The arithmetic mean of the 5 consecutive integers starting with 's' is 'a'. What is the arithmetic mean of 9 consecutive integers that start with s + 2?

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The mean weight of a class of 34 students is 46.5 kg. If the weight of the new boy is included, the mean is rises by 500 g. Find the weight of the new boy (in kg).

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The average of 5 consecutive numbers is n. What will be the average if the next two numbers are included?

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The average of x, y and z is 45. x is as much more than the average as y is less than the average. Find the value of z.

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If x¯ represent the mean of n observations x1,x2,,xn, then find the value of i=1nxi-x¯.

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Find the mode of the following data.

7.5, 7.3, 7.2, 7.2, 7.4, 7.7, 7.7, 7.5, 7.3, 7.2, 7.6, 7.2

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Find median of the following data.

19, 25, 59, 48, 35, 31, 30, 32, 51.  If 25 is replaced by 52, then find new median.

 

 

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If mean of the following frequency distribution is 1.46, then find the unknown frequencies.

x 0 1 2 3 4 5 sum
y 46 ... ... 25 10 5 200

 

 

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Find the mode of 14, 25, 14, 28, 18, 17, 18, 14, 23,  22, 14, 18.

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The median of the first five prime numbers is

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Find the observation with the highest frequency in the distribution below.

Terms 21 22 23 24 25
Repeatability 2 3 5 1 2

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Find the median from the following table:

Score 33 34 35 36 37
Frequency 2 3 4 5 1

 

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On surveying 50 families, the following numbers of rooms in each family were obtained. Find the multiplicand.

Number of rooms 1 2 3 4
Number of family 12 24 8 6

 

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In the competition organised on Global Handwashing Day, the time (in seconds) taken by the school children to wash their hands with soap is as follows: 20, 25, 20, 17, 15, 13, 17, 19, 20, 21, 25, 20, 15, 23.

Find the mode of the data.