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Statistical Analysis of Various Data Sets

The document contains 16 questions related to statistics concepts like mean, median and mode. The questions cover topics such as frequency distributions, calculating median, mean and mode from data sets, and identifying statistical measures from tables and distributions.

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Statistical Analysis of Various Data Sets

The document contains 16 questions related to statistics concepts like mean, median and mode. The questions cover topics such as frequency distributions, calculating median, mean and mode from data sets, and identifying statistical measures from tables and distributions.

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STATISTICS

Q1. The following table gives production yield per hectare of wheat of 100 farms of a village.
Change the distribution to a more than type distribution, and draw its ogive.

Q2. The annual profits earned by 30 shops of a shopping complex in a locality give rise to the
following distribution , Draw both ogives for the data above. Hence obtain the median profit.

Q3. 100 surnames were randomly picked up from a local telephone directory and the frequency
distribution of the number of letters in the English alphabets in the surnames was obtained as
follows, Determine the median number of letters in the surnames. Find the mean number of
letters in the surnames? Also, find the modal size of the surnames.

[Link] lengths of 40 leaves of a plant are measured correct to the nearest millimetre, and the
data obtained is represented in the following table , Find the median length of the leaves.

Q5. If the median of the distribution given below is 28.5, find the values of x and y.

Q6. The median of the following data is 525. Find the values of x and y, if the total frequency is
100.

Q7. A survey regarding the heights (in cm) of 51 girls of Class X of a school was conducted and
the following data was obtained, Find the median height.

Q8. A student noted the number of cars passing through a spot on a road for 100 periods each of
3 minutes and summarised it in the table given below. Find the mode of the data.

Q9. The following data gives the information on the observed lifetimes (in hours) of 225
electrical components , Determine the modal lifetimes of the components.

Q10. A survey conducted on 20 households in a locality by a group of students resulted in the


following frequency table for the number of family members in a household, Find the mode of
this data.

Q11. To find out the concentration of SO2 in the air (in parts per million, i.e., ppm), the data was
collected for 30 localities in a certain city and is presented below, Find the mean concentration of
SO2 in the air.

Q12. In a retail market, fruit vendors were selling mangoes kept in packing boxes. These boxes
contained varying number of mangoes. The following was the distribution of mangoes according
to the number of boxes, Find the mean number of mangoes kept in a packing box. Which method
of finding the mean did you choose?

Q13. The following distribution shows the daily pocket allowance of children of a locality. The
mean pocket allowance is Rs 18. Find the missing frequency f.
Q14. The distribution below shows the number of wickets taken by bowlers in one-day cricket
matches. Find the mean number of wickets by choosing a suitable method. What does the mean
signify?

Q15. The table below gives the percentage distribution of female teachers in the primary schools
of rural areas of various states and union territories (U.T.) of India. Find the mean percentage of
female teachers by all the three methods discussed in this section.

Q16. The marks obtained by 30 students of Class X of a certain school in a Mathematics paper
consisting of 100 marks are presented in table below. Find the mean of the marks obtained by the
students.

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To find the missing frequency, use the mean formula: sum of (frequency * class midpoint)/total frequency = given mean. Set up an equation where the total sum includes the unknown frequency term. Solve the equation for the missing frequency to satisfy the provided mean value .

Calculate the mode by identifying the class interval with the highest frequency. This interval represents the modal lifetime range of the components. Further refinement using the precise formula for mode specific to grouped data can also be used if data is grouped .

The mode can be determined by finding the number of cars that appears most frequently in the data set. Identify the frequency of each number of cars and select the one that occurs most often .

The mean is calculated by multiplying the number of letters in each group by the number of surnames in that group, summing these products, and dividing by the total number of surnames. The median is found by locating the middle value in the cumulative frequency distribution. The mode is the group with the highest frequency. This requires compiling the frequency distribution and calculating each measure individually .

To determine the median length, first arrange the leaf lengths in ascending order. The median is the length of the leaf at the middle position in this ordered list. If the total number of leaves is even, the median is the average of the two middle values .

First, draw both the 'less than' and 'more than' ogives using the cumulative frequency distributions of the profits. The median profit is found at the intersection of these two ogives, where the value on the horizontal axis corresponds to the median .

The mean concentration of SO2 is calculated by multiplying each concentration level by its corresponding frequency, summing all these products, and dividing by the total number of observations. The method used might be the assumed mean method, step-deviation method, or direct method depending on data distribution and ease of calculation .

The distribution of wheat yield can be transformed into a 'more than' cumulative frequency distribution by calculating the cumulative frequency starting from the highest class interval and moving towards the lowest. Once the cumulative frequencies are determined, an ogive can be drawn by plotting cumulative frequencies against the upper limits of class intervals on a graph .

The mean daily pocket allowance signifies the average amount children receive daily. It is computed by summing the product of midpoints of allowance intervals and their frequencies, then dividing by the total number of children. This average provides insight into general trends in pocket money distribution within the locality .

The mean number of mangoes is determined by calculating the sum of products of class marks and frequencies and then dividing by the total number of boxes. Choosing methods like assumed mean or step-deviation can enhance computational efficiency and accuracy, especially in cases where data is abundant or variable. These methods help simplify calculations without sacrificing accuracy .

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