JEE Mains Revision Course by

Manoj Chauhan Sir

(IIT DELHI)

Statistics, Heights & Distance

 Problem Solving Techniques - JEE MAINS - Statistics, Heights & Distance

1. The mean of Mathematics marks of 100 students of a class is 72. If the number of boys is 70 and the
mean of their marks is 75. Then the mean of the marks of girls in the class will be-
[AIEEE-2002]
(A) 60 (B) 62 (C) 65 (D) 68
2. In an experiment with 15 observations of x, the following results were available x2 = 2830,
x = 170. One observation that was 20 was found to be wrong and it was replaced by it's correct value
30. Then the corrected variance is- [AIEEE-2003]
(A) 8.33 (B) 78 (C) 188.66 (D) 177.33
3. The mean and variance of a random variable X having a binomial distribution are 4 and 2 respectively.
Then P(X = 1) is- [AIEEE-2003]

1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
4 32 16 8
4. The median of a set of 9 distinct observations is 20.5. If each of the largest four observations of the set
is increased by 2, then the median of the new set- [AIEEE-2003]
(A) remains the same as that of the original set
(B) is increased by 2
(C) is decreased by 2
(D) is two times the original median
5. Consider the following statements- [AIEEE-2004]
(a) Mode can be computed from histogram
(b) median is not independent of change of scale
(c) variance is independent of change of origin and scale
Which of these are correct-
(A) only (a) and (b) (B) only (b) (C) only (a) (D) (a), (b) and (c)
6. In a series of 2n observations, half of them equal a and remaining half equal –a. If the standard deviation
of the observations is 2, then |a| equals- [AIEEE-2004]

1 2
(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) (D)
n n
7. The mean and the variance of a binomial distribution are 4 and 2 respectively. Then the probability of
2 successes is- [AIEEE-2004]

12 8 219 37 28
(A) (B) (C) (D)
256 256 256 256
8. If in a frequency distribution, the mean and median are 21 and 22 respectively, then its mode is
approximately- [AIEEE-2005]
(A) 24.0 (B) 25.5 (C) 20.5 (D) 22.0
 2
9. Let x1, x2,.......,xn be n observations such that  i  400 and
x x i  80 . Then a possible value of n
among the following is- [AIEEE-2005]
(A) 12 (B) 9 (C) 18 (D) 15
10. Suppose a population A has 100 observations 101, 102, ..... 200 and other population B has 100
observations 151, 152, ..... 250. If VA and VB represent the variance of two population respectively then

VA
is- [AIEEE-2006]
VB

(A) 9/4 (B) 4/9 (C) 2/3 (D) 1

11. The average marks of boys in a class is 52 and that of girls is 42. The average marks of boys and girls
combined is 50 then the parcentage of boys in the class is- [AIEEE-2007]
(A) 20 (B) 80 (C) 60 (D) 40
12. The mean of the numbers a, b, 8, 5, 10 is 6 and the variance is 6.80 then which one of the following
gives possible values of a and b ? [AIEEE-2008]
(A) a = 0, b = 7 (B) a = 5, b = 2 (C) a = 1, b = 6 (D) a = 3, b = 4
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13. Statement–1 : The variance of first n even natural numbers is .
4

n(n  1)
Statement–2 : The sum of first n natural numbers is and the sum of squares of first n natural
2

n(n  1)(2n  1)
numbers is . [AIEEE-2009]
6
(A) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is false.
(B) Statement–1 is false, Statement–2 is true.
(C) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is true ; Statement–2 is a correct explanation for Statement–1.
(D) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is true ; Statement–2 is not a correct explanation for
statement–1.
14. If the mean deviation of the numbers 1, 1 + d, 1 + 2d, ......, 1 + 100d from their mean is 255, then
that d is equal to :- [AIEEE-2009]
(A) 10.1 (B) 20.2 (C) 10.0 (D) 20.0
15. For two data sets each of size 5, the variances are given to be 4 and 5 and the corresponding means are
given to be 2 and 4 respectively, then the variance of the combined data set is :-
[AIEEE-2010]

5 11 13
(A) (B) (C) 6 (D)
2 2 2
16. If the mean deviation about the median of the numbers a, 2a, .........., 50a is 50, then |a| equals:-
[AIEEE-2011]
(A) 4 (B) 5 (C) 2 (D) 3
17. A scientist is weighing each of 30 fishes. Their mean weight worked out is 30 gm and a standard deviation
of 2 gm. Later, it was found that the measuring scale was misaligned and always under reported every
fish weight by 2 gm. The correct mean and standard deviation (in gm) of fishes are respectively :
[AIEEE-2011]
(A) 28, 4 (B) 32, 2 (C) 32, 4 (D) 28, 2
18. Let x1, x2, .... , xn be n observations, and let x be their arithmetic mean and 2 be their variance.
Statement–1 : Variance of 2x1, 2x2, ..... , 2xn is 42.
Statement–2 : Arithmetic mean of 2x1, 2x2, .... , 2xn is 4 x . [AIEEE-2012]
(A) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is false.
(B) Statement–1 is false, Statement–2 is true.
(C) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is true ; Statement–2 is a correct explanation for Statement–1.
(D) Statement–1 is true, Statement–2 is true ; Statement–2 is not a correct explanation for Statement–
1.
19. All the students of a class performed poorly in Mathematics. The teacher decided to give 10 grace
marks to each of the student. Which of the following statistical measures will not change even after the
grace marks were given ?
(A) mean (B) median (C) mode (D) variance
20. The variance of first 50 even natural numbers is [JEE MAIN-2014]

833 437
(A) (B) 833 (C) 437 (D)
4 4
21. The mean of the data set comprising of 16 observations is 16. If one of the observation valued 16 is
deleted and three new observations valued 3, 4 and 5 are added to the data, then the mean of the
resultant data, is : [JEE MAIN-2015]
(A) 15.8 (B) 14.0 (C) 16.8 (D) 16.0
22. If the standard deviation of the numbers 2, 3, a and 11 is 3.5, then which of the following is true ?
[JEE MAIN-2016]
(A) 3a2 – 23 a + 44 = 0 (B) 3a2 – 26a + 55 = 0
(C) 3a2 – 32a + 84 = 0 (D) 3a2 – 34a + 91 = 0
23. A man is walking towards a vertical pillar in a straight path, at a uniform speed. At a certain point A on
the path, he observes that the angle of elevation of the top of the pillar is 30°. After walking for 10 minutes
from A in the same direction, at a point B, he observes that the angle of elevation of the top of the pillar
is 60°. Then the time taken (in minutes) by him, from B to reach the pillar, is [Mains 2016]
(A) 5 (B) 6 (C) 10 (D) 20
24. A pole stands vertically inside a triangular park ABC. If the angle of elevation of the top of the pole
from each corner of the park is same, then in ABC, the foot of the pole is at the :
[IIT-2001]
(A) Centroid (B) Circumcentre (C) Incentre (D) Orthocentre
25. A man from the top of a 100 m high tower sees a car moving towards the tower at an angle of depression
of 30°. After some time, the angle of depression becomes 60°. The distance (in metres) travelled by
the car during this time is : [IIT-Screening-2001]

200 3 100 3
(A) 100 3 (B) (C) (D) 2 0 0 3
3 3
  3  –1  3
26. The upper   th portion of a vertical pole subtends an angle tan   at a point in the horizontal
4 5

plane through it's foot and at a distance 40 m from the foot. A possible height of the vertical pole
is :

tan   tan 
[Hint : Use the formula tan (  ) = ] [AIEEE-2003]
1  tan  tan 
(A) 60 m (B) 20 m (C) 40 m (D) 80 m
27. A person standing on the bank of a river observes that the angle of elevation of the top of a tree
on the opposite bank of the river is 60° and when he retires 40 metres away from the tree the angle
of elevation becomes 30°. The breadth of the river is : [AIEEE-2004]
(A) 20 m (B) 30 m (C) 40 m (D) 60 m
28. A tower stands at the centre of a circular park. A and B are two points on the boundary of the park
such that AB (= a) subtends an angle of 60° at the foot of the tower, and the angle of elevation of
the top of the tower from A or B is 30°. The height of the tower is : [AIEEE-2007]

2a a
(A) (B) 2a 3 (C) (D) a 3
3 3
29. AB is a vertical pole with B at the ground level and A at the top. A man finds that the angle of elevation
of the point A from a certain point C on the ground is 60°. He moves away from the pole along the
line BC to a point D such that CD = 7m. From D, the angle of elevation of the point A is 45°. Then
the height of the pole is : [AIEEE-2008]

7 3 7 3 7 3 7 3
(A) m (B) ( 3  1)m (C) ( 3 – 1)m (D) m
2( 3 – 1) 2 2 2 ( 3  1)
30. A bird is sitting on the top of a vertical pole 20 m high and its elevation from a point O on the ground
is 45°. It flies off horizontally straight away from the point O. After one second, the elevation of
the bird from O is reduced to 30°. Then the speed (in m/s) of the bird is :
[Mains 2014]

(A) 40  
2 1 (B) 40  3 2  (C) 20 2 (D) 20  
3 1
31. If the angles of elevation of the top of a tower from three collinear points A, B and C, on a line
leading to the foot of the tower, are 30º, 45º and 60º respectively, then the ratio, AB : BC, is :
[Mains 2015]
(A) 1: 3 (B) 2 : 3 (C) 3 :1 (D) 3 : 2