TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY

B.Sc. Hons.(Agri) Degree Programme

PART-A
(Answer All questions) [40 x 0.5 = 20]
Choose the correct answer (kindly bold the answer keys)
1. Father of Statistics is ____________.

A) Francis Galton B) R.A.Fisher

C) Pearson D) Neyman
2. Data taken from the publication, ‘Agricultural Situation in India’ will be considered
as______________.

A) Primary data B) Secondary data

C) Primary and Secondary data D) Neither Primary nor Secondary data
3. If the lower and upper limit of a class are 10 and 40 respectively, the mid-points of
the class are________. Mid point = (Upper limit + Lower limit)/2
= (40+10)/2
A) 25.0 B) 12.5 = 50 / 2 = 25
C) 15.0 D) 30.0
4. Charts and graphs are the presentation of numerical facts by means of ______.

A) Points and lines B) Area and other geometrical forms

C) Symbols D) All the above
5. Simple random sampling is _________ sampling method.

A) unrestricted B) restricted
C) Unequal probability D) Equal chance
6. Which of the following statement is correct?

A) Cumulative frequency and B) Cube and square diagrams are similar in

ogives look
C) Pie-chart and ogives D) None of the above
7. Ogives for more than and less than type distributions intersect at ______________.

A) mean B) Median
C) mode D) origin
8. Shoe size of most of the people in India is No. 7. Which measure of central value
does it represent.

A) mean B) mode
C) SD D) cv
9. If a constant value 50 is subtracted from each observation of a set, the mean of the
set is ___________.

A) Increased by 50 B) Decreased by 50
C) Is not affected D) Zero
10. The correct relationship between A.M.,G.M.,H.M., is ____________.
 A) A.M.=G.M.=H.M. B) G.M.≥A.M.≥H.M.
C) H.M.≥G.M.≥A.M. D) A.M.≥G.M.≥H.M.
11. Geometric mean of two numbers 1/16 and 4/25 is_____________.
= 1/16 x 4/25
A) 1/10 B) 1/100 = 1/4 x 2 / 5
C) 10 D) 100 = 1/10
12. The median of the variate values 48,35,36,40,42,54,58,60 is _______.

A) 40 B) 41
C) 44 D) 45
13. Formula for coefficient of variation is ___________.

A) C.V. = (S.D/mean )×100 B) C.V. = (mean/S.D )×100

C)
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C.V. = (S.D×mean )/100 D) C.V. = 100/(S.D/mean )
14. Mean deviation is minimum when deviations are take from __________.

A) mean B) median
C) mode D) Zero
15. Average wages of workers of a factory are Rs.550.00 per month and the standard
deviation of wages is 110. The coefficient of variation is ____________.

A) C.V. = 30 per cent B) C.V. = 15 per cent

C) C.V. = 500 per cent D) C.V. = 20 per cent
16. Identify the correct and false statements
The relation between variance and standard deviation is
i) Variance is the square root of standard deviation
ii) Standard deviation is the square of the variance
iii) Variance is equal to standard deviation
iv) Square of the standard deviation is equal to variance
A) (i) and (ii) is correct B) (i) is correct but (iii) is a possibility
C) (ii) is false and (iii) is correct D) (iv) alone is correct
17. If A and B are the two events, the probability of occurrence of either A or B is given
as ____________.

A) P (A) + P(B) B) P (AUB)

C) P (AᴖB) D) P (A) P(B)
18. Probability ranges from ______.

A) -∞ to ∞ B) -∞ to 1
C) -1 to 1 D) 0 to 1
19. In tossing three coins at a time, the probability of getting at most one head is ______.
H H H at most 1 H
A) 3/8 B) 1/2 HHT
C) 7/8 D) 1/8 HTH
20. Match the following correctly THH
1. Symmetrical distribution – mean > variance (a) HTT
2. Binomial Distribution – mean =median = mode (b) THT
3. Average – best measure of dispersion (c) TTH
TTT
 4. Standard deviation – mean (d)
5. Type II error – Accept Null hypothesis (e)

A) 1-(d); 2-(b); 3-(a); 4-(d); 5-(e) B) 1-(c); 2-(a); 3-(d); 4-(e); 5-(b)
C) 1-(e); 2-(b); 3-(d); 4-(c); 5-(a) D) 1-(b); 2-(a); 3-(d); 4-(c); 5-(d)
Answer the question (21-24)
75 74 80 81 85 86 84 81 90 87 92 94 95

21. The range of the above given data is ________.

95 - 74 = 21
A) 45 B) 36
C) 25 D) 30
22. Quartile deviation of the above data is ________.

A) 95.25 B) 90.00
C) 95.00 D) 93.00
23 Standard deviation of the above data is _______.

A) 9.84 B) 8.80
C) 9.50 D) 7.90
24. Coefficient of variation of the above data is ______.

A) 11.0 B) 13.0
C) 15.0 D) 10.9
Read the following passage and answer the questions
Ten unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of obtaining it
25. When there are exactly 6 heads is ________.

A) 105/512 B) 101/512
C) 111/512 D) 123/512
26. When there is no head is _____.

A) 10/1024 B) 1/1024
C) 50/1024 D) 100/1024
27. When there is not more than three heads is _______.

A) 11/64 B) 1/64
C) 16/64 D) 5/64
28 When there is at least four heads is __________.

A) 53/64 B) 50/64
C) 10/64 D) 55/64
Read the following passage and answer the questions
 The following graph shows the normal curve. One of the most fundamental
properties of the normal probability curve is the area property.
29. The total area under the normal probability curve is _______.

A) 1 B) 0
C) 0 to 1 D) -1 to 1
30. The area under the normal probability curve between the ordinates at x=µ-σ and
x=µ+σ is _________.

A) 0.6826 B) 0.6636
C) 0.6535 D) 0.6585
31. The area under the normal probability curve between the ordinates at x=µ-2σ and
x=µ+2σ is _________.

A) 0.9544 B) 0.9422
C) 0.9322 D) 0.9412
32. The area under the normal probability curve between the ordinates at x=µ-3σ and
x=µ+3σ is _________.

A) 0.9823 B) 0.9973
C) 0.9786 D) 0.9586
Read the following passage and answer the questions
Discrete and continuous probability distributions. Binomial, poisson and Normal
distributions.
33. When n  to infinity (finite) and p  to 0 (< > 0) then binomial distribution tends to
_____ distribution.

A) uniform B) Bernoulli
C) Poisson D) Normal
34. The Poisson distribution is used to describe the distribution of __________.

A) rare events B) Number of trails

C) Frequent occurrences D) Success and failure
35 Normal distribution is also called as _________ distribution.

A) Gaussian distribution or B) De-movire distribution

laplacian distribution
C) Symmetrical distribution D) All the above
36. Binomial distribution is the extension of ____________ distribution.
A) Bernoulli B) poisson
C) normal D) uniform
 Read the following passage and answer the questions
Testing of Hypothesis.
37. The level of significance α = 0.05 is also known as the probability of committing ____
error.

A) standard B) Type II
C) sampling D) Type I
38 When the calculated value of the test criteria is greater than the critical value then,
___________.

A) Accept the null hypothesis B) Reject the null hypothesis

C) Reject the alternative D) Accept the alternative hypothesis
hypothesis
39. The critical region is also called as the_____________.

A) Region of rejection B) Acceptance region

C) Level of significance D) Type II error
40. Type I error is also called as ________.

A) Consumer risk B) Producer risk

C) Demand D) surplus