Statistics MCQs on Basic Statistics

Question 1: The mean of a distribution is 14 and the standard

deviation is 5. What is the value of the coecient of variation?
A) 60.4%
B) 48.3%
C) 35.7%

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D) 27.8%
Question 2: The mean of a distribution is 23, the median is

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24, and the mode is 25.5. It is most likely that this distribution
is:
A) Positively Skewed
B) Symmetrical
C) Asymptotic
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Question 3: Which of the following describe the middle part
of a group of numbers?
A) Measure of Variability
B) Measure of Central Tendency
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C) Measure of Association
D) Measure of Shape
Question 4: According to the empirical rule, approximately
what percent of the data should lie within µ ± σ?
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A) 75%
B) 68%
C) 99.7%
D) 90%
E) 95%
Question 5: The sum of the deviations about the mean is
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always:
A) Range
B) Zero
C) Total Standard Deviation
D) Positive
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E) Negative
Question 6: The middle value of an ordered array of numbers
is the
A) Mode
B) Mean

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C) Median
D) Mid Point

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Question 7: Which of the following is not a measure of central
tendency?
A) Percentile
B) Quartile
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D) Mode
Question 8: Which of the following divides a group of data
into four subgroups?
A) Percentiles
B) Deciles
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C) Median
D) Quartiles
E) Standard Deviation
Question 9: If the standard deviation of a population is 9, the
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population variance is:

A) 9
B) 3
C) 21
D) 81
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Question 10: If a distribution is abnormally tall and peaked,

then is can be said that the distribution is:
A) leptokurtic
B) pyrokurtic
C) platykurtic
D) mesokurtic
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Question 11: Sum of dots when two dice are rolled is
A) a discrete variable
B) a continuous variable
C) a constant
D) a qualitative variable

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Question 12: The weights of students in a college/school is a

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A) Discrete Variable
B) Continuous Variable
C) Qualitative Variable
D) None of these
Question 13: The number of accidents in a city during 2010 is
A) Discrete variable
B) Continuous variable
C) Qualitative variable
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D) Constant
Question 14: Which of these represent qualitative data
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A) Height of a student
B) Liking or disliking of (500) persons of a product
C) Income of a government servant in a city
D) Yield from a wheat plot
Question 15: Life of a T.V picture tube is a
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A) Discrete variable
B) Continuous variable
C) Qualitative variable
D) Constant
Question 16: The rst hand and unorganized form of data is
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called
A) Secondary data
B) Organized data
C) Primary data
D) None of these
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Question 17: The data which have already been collected by
some one are called
A) Raw data
B) Array data
C) Secondary data

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D) Fictitious data
Question 18: Census reports used as a source of data is

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A) Primary source
B) secondary source
C) Organized data
D) none
Question 19: The grouped data is also called
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A) Raw data
B) Primary data
C) Secondary data
D) Qualitative data
Question 20: Primary data and - data are same
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A) Grouped
B) Secondary data
C) Ungrouped
D) None of these
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Question 21: Questionnaire survey method is used to collect

A) Secondary data
B) Qualitative variable
C) Primary data
D) None of these
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Question 22: Data collected by NADRA to issue computerized

identity cards (CICs) are
A) Unocial data
B) Qualitative data
C) Secondary data
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D) Primary data
E) None of these
Question 23: Population census is conducted through
A) Sample survey
B) Accounting

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C) Investigation
D) Complete enumeration

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Question 24: A parameter is a measure which is computed
from
A) Population data
B) Sample data
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D) None of these
Question 25: Given X = 12, X = 19, X = 10, X = 7, then
equals?
1 2 3 4
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Xi=1

A) 36
B) 48
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C) 41
D) 29
E) None of these
Question 26: A chance variation in an observational process is
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A) Dispersion/ Variability
B) Measurement error
C) Random error
D) Instrument error
Question 27: A constant variable can take values
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A) Zero
B) Fixed
C) Not xed
D) Nothing

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Answers
1) C 2) D 3) B 4) E 5) B
6) C 7) C 8) D 9) D 10) A
11) A 12) B 13) A 14) B 15) B

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16) C 17) C 18) B 19) C 20) C
21) C 22) D 23) D 24) A 25) B
26) C 27) B

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