ASSIGNMENT I

1. Average marks in science of 10 students of a class were 68. A new student took admission with 72
marks whereas 2 existing students left the college. If the marks of these students were 40 and 39,
find the average marks of the remaining students. (Ans. 74.78)

2. The sum of deviations of a certain number of observations measured from 4 is 72 and the sum of
deviations of the same value from 7 is -3. Find the number of observations and their mean. (Ans.
n=25, mean = 6.88)

3. Following are the marks (out of 100) obtained by students in a test.

70 55 51 42 57 45 60 47 63 53 33 65 39 82 55 64 50 25 65 75 30 20 58 52
36 45 42 35 40 61 53 59 49 41 15 52 46 42 45 39 55 65 45 63 54 48 64 35
26 18

i. Make a frequency distribution taking a class interval of 10 marks (take the first class
interval as 0-10)

ii. Draw a histogram and a frequency polygon for the frequency distribution.

iii. Find out the average marks of the students. (Ans. 49.4)

4. The mean of the following frequency distribution is 50. But the frequencies f 1 and f2 in the classes
20-40 and 60-80 are missing. Find the missing frequencies.

Class 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 Total

Frequency 17 f1 32 f2 19 120

(Ans. f1=28 and f2=24)

5. Compute the weighted arithmetic mean of the index number from the data below –

(Ans. 141.15)

Group Index number Weight

Food 125 7

Clothing 133 5

Fuel and light 141 4

House rent 173 1

Miscellaneous 182 3

6. The distribution of weights of 152 students is given, calculate Q1, median, D 7 and P80.
 Weight in kgs Frequency

30-40 18

40-50 38

50-60 46

60-70 27

70-80 15

80-90 8

(Ans. Q1=45.33, median=54.46, D7=61.89 and P80=67.56)

7. Determine median graphically & verify the median value by calculating with the help of formula
and also calculate Q1 and Q3 for the following data –

Height(cms) 141-150 151-160 161-170 171-180 181-190 Total

Frequency 5 16 56 19 4 100

(Ans. median = 165.77, Q1=161.26, Q3=170.28)

8. (i) Calculate mode by graphic method for the following data and verify the value with the help of
formula–

Marks 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64

Number of 3 5 12 18 14 6 2
students

(Ans. mode=47.5)

(ii) Calculate mode by grouping method for the following data –

Class 14.5-24.5 24.5-34.5 34.5-44.5 44.5-54.5 54.5-64.5 64.5-74.5

Frequency 3 4 8 14 14 2

(Ans. mode=54.5)

9. For the following data of marks scored by 50 students, find mode using grouping table –

Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80

 No of 5 7 22 30 35 16 8 7
students

(Ans. mode=40.83, median = 40.43, mean=40.23)

10. Given below is the frequency distribution of marks obtained by 90 students. Calculate the
arithmetic mean, median and mode. (Ans. Mean=37.17, median = 36.25 and mode = 23.5)

Marks Number of students Marks Number of students

15-19 6 45-49 9

20-24 14 50-54 10

25-29 12 55-59 5

30-34 10 60-64 4

35-39 10 65-69 1

40-44 9

11. If for two numbers, the arithmetic mean is 25 and the harmonic mean is 9, then what is the
geometric mean? (Ans. GM=15)

12. Find the geometric mean and harmonic mean from the following data –

Items 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Value 15 250 15.7 157 1.57 105.7 105 1.06 25.7 0.257

(Ans. GM=16.04, HM=1.7637)

13. Find the mode, median, quartile deviation and coefficient of quartile deviation from the following
data –

Wages 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

No. of workers 22 38 46 35 20

(Ans. Mode=24.21, Median=24.56, QD=9.78, Coefficient of QD=0.396)

14. You are given two variables x and y. Using quartile deviation, state which has high variation.

X y

Values Frequency Values Frequency

 15 15 100 340

20 33 150 492

25 56 200 890

30 103 250 1420

35 40 300 620

40 32 350 360

45 10 400 187

450 140

(Ans. Coefficient of QD (x) =0.167, Coefficient of QD (y) = 0.2)

15. Calculate the mean deviation for the following data and its coefficient –

Marks 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

No.of students 5 8 15 16 6

(Ans. MD=9.32, coefficient of MD=0.35)

16. Given below are the daily wages paid to the workers in two factories x and y.

Number of workers

Daily wages (rs) Factory x Factory y

 20-30 15 25

30-40 30 40

40-50 44 60

50-60 60 35

60-70 60 20

70-80 14 15

80-90 7 5

Using arithmetic mean and standard deviation, answer the following questions –

i. Which factory pays higher average wages? By how much?

ii. In which factory are the wages more variable?

17. The following figures relate to the weights in lbs of five persons – 120, 140, 150, 160 and 180.
Calculate the variance and standard deviation of the weights.

Now, subtract 40 lbs from each of the weights above and then calculate and the variance and
standard deviation of the weights. Do you find any change in answers as compared to the
previous?

18. The mean of 5 observations is 3 and variance is 2. If the three of the 5 observations are 1, 3, 5 find
the other two.

19. Find the mean and standard deviation of the following distribution –

Age (years) 20-25 25-30 30-35 35-40 40-45 45-50

Number of 170 110 80 45 40 35

persons

(Ans. σ = 7.936)

20. In the following data, two class frequencies are missing –

Class interval Frequency Class interval Frequency

100-110 4 150-160 ?

110-120 7 160-170 16
120-130 15 170-180 10

130-140 ? 180-190 6

140-150 40 190-200 3

However it was possible to ascertain that the total number of frequencies was 150 and the median
was found out as 146.25. With the help of given information, find out following -
a. The two missing frequencies

b. having found the missing frequencies, calculate mean and standard deviation.

c. Also find the value of mode.

(Ans. a. 24, 25 b. mean=147.2 and σ=19.2 c. mode = 144.84)