PRATHIBHA DEGREE & PG COLLEGE

(Affiliated to Osmania University)

BSC I YEAR – I SEMESTER I INTERNAL EXAMINATION:2022-23
DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS & PROBABILITY

NAME OF THE STUDENT: MAX MARKS: 15

HALL TICKET NO: MAX. TIME: 30 MINUTES
I. FILL IN THE BLANKS. ALL QUESTIONS CARRY EQUAL MARKS. (10X1/2=5)
1. ______________distribution mean,median and mode are equal.
2. Range is the difference between________________________________________
3. The most frequently occurring number in a set of data is called________________
4. Lack of symmetry is called
5. If mean is 50 and standard deviation is 10 then the coefficient of variation is __________
6. Formula for standard deviation =____________________
7. Formula for median in continuous series=________________________________
8. Formula for mode in continuous series____________________________
9. The formula for coefficient of variation =_________________________________
10. Formula for coefficient of quartile deviation=____________________________
II. MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: (10 X 1/2 = 5)
1. Which of the following is known as positional average____ [ ]
(a) Mean (b) Median (c) Mode (d)Variance
2. Which of the following is a measure of dispersion [ ]
(a) Interquartile range (b)mean(c) median (d) none of the above
3. Primary data refers to [ ]

(a) first hand information (b)information from journals (c) unpublished sources (d)none
4. If 18,6,12,10,14 are the set of scores, then the median is [. ]
(a) 10 (b)12 (c)14 (d)18
5. If the distribution is skewed to the left, then the measure of skewness will be [ ]
(a) positive(b)negative (c)symmetrical(d)none
6. The degree of peakedness is called _____ [ ]
(a) Dispersion(b)skewness (c)kurtosis(d)none
7. The mode of 5,5,5,2,2,3,4,5,5,6,5,5,5,5,______ [ ]
(a)5 (b)4 (c)6 (d)2
8. The range of 2,2,3,4,5,6,2,23,45,12 [ ]

(a) 43 (b)2(c)10(d)all the above

9. Which of the following is middle quartile [ ]
a) Q1 (b)Q2 c)Q3 (d)none
10. There are ___types of moments [ ]
(a) 4 (b) 3(c) 2 (d) None
III. WRITE SHORT NOTES FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS 5 marks
1. Define Primary Data
2. Define dispersion
3. Define moments.
4. Define skewness
5. Merits and Demerits of arithmetic mean.