IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

THEORETICAL QUESTIONS

Q1. What is mean deviation? How is it calculated?

Q2. Explain the concept of regression. How does it differ from correlation?
Q3. What are the various methods of collecting statistical data? Which of these is most reliable
and why?
Q4. What is meant by Correlation? What is its significance in statistical analysis? Discuss briefly
the different measures of correlation.
Q5. What do you understand by graphical representation? Discuss its advantages and
disadvantages and various forms.
Q6. Give meaning and definition of classification.
Q7. Differentiate between Primary and Secondary data.
Q8. What do you understand by Time Series Analysis?
Q9. What are the various measures of dispersion?
Q10. What is scatter diagram? How are they interpreted?
Q11. What do you mean by correlation? Distinguish between positive and negative correlation.
What are the different methods of studying correlation?
Q12. Define Index Numbers and describe their uses.

NUMERICAL QUESTIONS

Q13. The median of the following observation arranged in the ascending order is 26.Find the
value of x:
10,12,15,17,x+2,x+4,31,33,36,42.
Q14. Find out the range and its coefficient of the following items:
-2,-3,-8,-7,-1,-20,-17.
Q15. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation between price and supply of a
Commodity from the following data:
Prices(Rs) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Supply(kg 38 27 38 33 32 33 34 29 26
)

Q16. Calculate Mean, Median and Mode from the following distribution:

Marks(less 10 20 30 40 50 60 60 and
than) over
No. of 8 22 44 68 84 96 4
students

Q17. Find out the standard deviation from the following data:

C.I. 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

F 6 10 20 9 5
Q18. Find out the mean, median and mode from the following data:

C.I 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

F 8 15 22 18 7

Q19. In a batch of 20 students, 8 students failed in a test. The marks of 12 students who passed
were as follows:
18,12,14,16,16,18,12,10,8,14,20,13
What is the median of the marks of all the 20 students?

Q20. In the information relating to marks obtained by 250 students in Accountancy and statistics
in M.Com Examination:

Subject Mean Standard Deviation

Accountancy 48 4
Statistics 55 5
Coefficient of correlation=0.8
Find out the two regression equations.

Q21. Find out the standard deviation and its coefficient from the following data:

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

group
Frequency 10 22 46 78 107 118 121 122

Q22. If bxy=-0.4 and byx=-0.9, then find r.

Q23. The runs scored by two batsmen A and B in different innings is as follow:

A 12 115 6 73 7 19 119 36 84 29
B 47 12 76 42 4 51 37 48 13 0

Who scored better? Who is more consistent?

Q24. Calculate Karl Pearson’s coefficient of correlation between the age of husbands and wives
from the following data:
Husband’s 32 35 27 38 25 40
age
Wife’s age 28 32 26 35 24 38

Q25. Following are the marks obtained by students in Hindi and English. Calculate the
coefficient of correlation by the method of Rank differences:
Roll No. Hindi English
 1 45 40
2 56 36
3 39 30
4 54 44
5 45 36
6 40 32
7 56 45

Q26. Find out the range and its coefficient of the following items:
145,367,268,43,185,619,280,115,870,315.

Q28. Calculate the rank correlation from the following data:

X 80 78 75 75 68 67 60 59
Y 12 13 14 14 14 16 15 17

Q29. The two regression equations are:

20X-3Y=975 and 4Y-15X+530=0. Find:
(i) The mean of X and Y
(ii) The coefficient of correlation between X and Y
(iii) The value of Y, when X=70

Q30. There are 3 bags and they contain 2 white and 3 black balls; 3 white and 2 black balls; 4
white and 1 black ball, respectively. The probability of selecting each bag is same. A bag is
selected at random and a white ball is drawn from it. What is the probability that it is from
second bag?

Q31. The mean of 200 observations was 50. Later, it was discovered that two items were misread
as 92 and 8 instead of 192 and 88. Find the correct mean.

Q32. Find the missing frequency if median is 52.

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

F 5 8 7 12 ? 20 10 10

Q33. Find the missing frequencies in the following incomplete distribution when median and
mode are 27 and 26 respectively.

C.I. 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

f 3 ? 20 12 ?

Q34. If the mean and the variance of a Binomial distribution are respectively 9 and 6, find the
distribution.