14.

Statistics (HOTS)
1. Following are the ages of 360 patients getting medical treatment in a hospital on a day:
Age ( in 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70
years)
No. of 90 50 60 80 50 30
patients
2. The water bills (in rupees) of 32 houses in a certain street for the period 1.1 .15 to 31.3.15
are given below: 56, 43, 32, 38, 56, 24, 68, 85, 52, 47, 35, 58, 63, 74, 27, 84, 69, 35, 44, 75, 55,
30, 54, 65, 45, 67, 95, 72, 43, 65, 35, 59.
Tabulate the data and present the data as a cumulative frequency table using 70-79 as one of
the class intervals.
3. The number of books in different shelves of a library are as follows:
30, 32, 28, 24, 20, 25, 38, 37, 40, 45, 16, 20
19, 24, 27, 30, 32, 34, 35, 42, 27, 28, 19, 34,
38, 39, 42, 29, 24, 27, 22, 29, 31, 19, 27, 25,
28, 23, 24, 32, 34, 18, 27, 25, 37, 31, 24, 23,
43, 32, 28, 31, 24, 23, 26, 36, 32, 29, 28, 21.
Prepare a cumulative frequency distribution table using 45-49 as the last class interval.
4. Given below are the cumulative frequencies showing the weights of 685 students of a
school. Prepare a frequency distribution table

Weight (in kg) No. of students

Below 25 0
Below 30 24
Below 35 78
Below 40 183
Below 45 294
Below 50 408
Below 55 543
Below 60 621
Below 65 674
Below 70 685
5. The following table gives the distribution of IQs (intelligence quotients) of 60 pupils of
class V in a school:
IQs 125.5 118.5 111.5 104.5 97.5 90.5 83.5 76.5 69.5 62.5
to to to to to to to to to to
130.25 125.5 118.5 111.5 104.5 97.5 90.5 83.5 76.5 69.5
No. of 1 3 4 6 10 12 15 5 3 1
pupils
:
Draw a frequency polygon for the above data.
6. Draw a histogram for the daily earnings of 30 drug stores in the following table:
Daily 450-500 500-550 550-600 600-650 650-700
earnings
(in Rs.)
Number of 16 10 7 3 1
stores:

7. The monthly profits(in Rs.) of 100 shops are distributed as follows:

Profits 0-50 50-100 100-150 150-200 200-250 250-300
per shop:
No. of 12 18 27 20 17 6
shops
Draw a histogram for the data and show the frequency polygon for it.
8. If is the mean of 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 6 prove that
(1 ) + (2 ) + (3 ) + (4 ) + (5 ) + (6 ) = 0
9. Duration of sunshine (in hours) in Amritsar for first 10 days of August 2015 as reported
by the meteorological department are given below:
9.6, 5.2, 3.5, 1.5, 1.6, 2.4, 2.6, 8.4, 10.3, 10.9
i) find the mean of ii) Verify that 10
=1( ) = 0

10. Explain, by taking a suitable example , how the arithmetic mean alters by (i) adding a
constant k to each term, ii) subtracting a constant k from each term , iii) multiplying a each
term by constant k and iv) dividing each term by a non-zero constant k.
11. The mean of marks scored by 100 students was found to be 40.Later on t was discovered
that a score of 53 was misread as 83. Find the correct mean.
12. The traffic police recorded the speed (in km/hr) of 10 motorists as 47, 53, 49, 60, 39, 42,
55, 57, 52, 48. Later on an error in recording instrument was found. Find the correct average
speed of the motorists if the instrument recorded 5km/hr less in each case.
13. The mean of five numbers is 27. If one number is excluded, their mean is 25. Find the
excluded number.
14. The mean weight per student in a group of 7 students is 55 kg. The individual weights of
6 of them (in Kg) are 52, 54, 55, 53, 56 and 54. Find the weight of the seventh student.
15. The mean weight of 8 numbers is 15. If each number is multiplied by 2, what will be the
new mean?
16. The mean of 5 numbers is 18 .If one number is excluded, their mean is 16. Find the
excluded number.
17. The mean of 200 items was 50. Later on, it was discovered that the two items were
misread as 92 and 8 instead of 192 and 88. Find the correct mean.
18. Find the missing frequencies in the following frequency distribution if it is known that
the mean of the distribution is 1.46
Number 0 1 2 3 4 5 Total
of
accidents
Frequency 46 ? ? 25 10 5 200

19. If the mean of the following data is 15. Find p

x: 5 10 15 20 25
f: 6 p 6 10 5
20. Find the value of p for the following distribution whose mean is 16.6.
x: 8 12 15 p 20 25 30
f: 12 16 20 24 16 8 4

21. Find the mean of the following distribution:

x: 10 12 20 25 35
f: 3 10 15 7 5

22. Five coins were simultaneously tossed 1000 times and at each toss the number of heads
was observed. The number of tosses during which 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 heads were obtained are
shown in the table below. Find the mean number of heads per toss.
 No.of heads per toss No.of tosses

0 38
1 144
2 342
3 287
4 164
5 25
Total 1000

23. Find the missing frequencies in the following frequency distribution if it is known that
the mean of the distribution is 50.
x: 10 30 50 70 90
f: 17 1 32 2 19 Total 120

24. Find the median of the following data (1-8)

a) 83, 37, 70, 29, 45, 63, 41, 70, 34, 54
b) 133, 73, 89, 108, 94, 104, 94, 85, 100, 120
c) 31, 38, 27, 28, 36, 25, 35, 40
d) 15, 6, 16, 8, 22, 21, 9, 18, 25
e) 41, 43, 127, 99, 71, 92, 71, 58, 57
f) 25, 34, 31, 23, 22, 26, 35, 29, 20, 32
g) 12, 17, 3, 14, 5, 8, 7, 15
h) 92, 35, 67, 85, 72, 81, 56, 51, 42, 69
25. Numbers 50, 42, 35, 2x+10, 2x+8, 12, 11, 8, 6 are written in descending order and their
median is 25, find x.
26. Find the median of the following observations: 46, 64, 87, 41, 58, 77, 35, 90, 55, 92, 33. If
92 s replaced by 99 and 41 by 43 in the above data, find the new median.
27. Find the median of the following data: 41, 43, 127, 99, 61, 92, 71, 58, 57. If 58 is replaced
by 85, what will be the new median.
28. The weights (in kg) of 15 students are 31, 35,27, 29, 32, 43, 37, 41, 34, 28, 36, 44,45, 42,
30.Find the median. If the weight 44 kg is replaced by 46 kg and 27 Kg by 25 Kg, find the
new median.
29. The following observations have been arranged in ascending order. If the median of the
data is 63, find the value of x:
29, 32, 48, 50, x, x+2, 72, 78, 84, 95
30. 100 surnames were randomly picked up at from a telephone directory and a
frequency distribution of the number of letters in English alphabets in the
surnames was found as follows:
Number of 1-4 4-6 6-8 8-12 12-20
letters:
No. of 6 30 44 16 4
surnames
(a)Draw a Histogram to depict the given information.
(b)Write the class interval in which the maximum number of surnames lie

Answer key
1.
Age in years No. of patients

Less than 20 90

Less than 30 140

Less than 40 200

Less than 50 280

Less than 60 330

Less than 70 360

4.
Weights No. of students
25-30 24
30-35 54
35-40 105
40-45 111
45-50 114
50-55 135
55-60 78
60-65 53
65-70 11
9. 5.6
11. 39.7
12. 55.2 km/hr
13. 35
14. 61 Kg
15. 30
16. 26
17. 50.9
18. 76 and 38
19. 8
20. 18
21. 20
22. 2.37
23. 1 = 28 2 = 24
24. a)49.5 b) 97 c) 33 d) 16 e) 61 f) 27.5 g) 10 h) 68
25.12
26. 58.58
27. 61.71
28.35 kg, 35 kg
29. 62