This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 11 > Commerce > Economics Statistics For Economics > Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 5 Measures Of Central Tendency – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 5 Measures Of Central Tendency Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Find the mode of:12, 26, 4, 30, 2, 37, 26, 38 A) 25.5. B) 26.7. C) 25. D) 26. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 26. 2. The scores in a basketball match are as follows:7, 13, 18, 24, 9, 3, 18If the team scored 18 points on their next game, how will this effect the mode of the scores? A) The mode will increase by 1. B) No change to the mode. C) The mode will increase by 5. D) The mode will decrease by 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No change to the mode. 3. What does the mode represent? A) The sum of all the data points divided by the number of data points. B) The middle number of a dataset. C) The most common value of a dataset. D) A number that represents how far a data point is away from what is normal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The most common value of a dataset. 4. The median age of cars on a used car lot is 4 years. The interquartile range of the cars' ages is 5 years. Which statement is most likely true? A) About 25% of the cars will be less than 4 years old. B) About 25% of the cars will be more than 4 years old. C) About 50% of the cars will be between 4 and 5 years old. D) About 75% of the cars will be less than 6 years old. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) About 75% of the cars will be less than 6 years old. 5. Which measure of central tendency is greatly affected by extreme scores? A) Mode. B) Median. C) Mean. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mean. 6. The price of a cheese pizza in five different pizza delivery shops are 5, 5, 4, 6, 6, 8, and $ 7. Find the mean price of a cheese pizza. A) $ 5. B) $ 6. C) $ 4. D) $ 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $ 6. 7. What is the Q1 of this data set?6, 7, 2, 1, 5, 2, 1, 6 A) 2.5. B) 2. C) 1. D) 1.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1.5. 8. Find the median.5, 15, 10, 20, 15, 10, 15 A) 20. B) 5. C) 10. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 15. 9. The following are scores made on a math test:80, 90, 90, 85, 60, 70, 75, 85, 90, 60, 80 What is the mode of these scores? A) 90. B) 70. C) 80. D) 60. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 90. 10. Find the mean.18, 2, 0, 0, 0 A) 20. B) 10. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 11. The mean of 40 observations is 50. If two observations 45 and 55 are removed, the new mean is: A) 49.5. B) 50. C) 50.5. D) 48. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 50. 12. The most frequent value is called A) Mode. B) Median. C) Mean. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 13. Which is the number that appears the most often? A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mode. 14. Which one would be the best to use:0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 A) Range. B) Mean. C) Mode. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mean. 15. The temperature received till Friday was 34, 38, 36, 30 and 31. If the temperature on Saturday drops to 11$^{o}$C, how does the inclusion of Saturday's temperature affect the weekly mean temperature? A) Increase. B) Does not change. C) Decreases. D) Can not be determined. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decreases. 16. Find the range of:23, 3, 14, 9, 30 A) 22. B) 20. C) 27. D) 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 27. 17. The heights of six students in a class are given below:158cm 172cm 164cm164cm 167cm 159cm However, there were actually seven students in the class, and the mean height in the class was 165 cm. What was the height of the unknown student? A) 166 cm. B) 169 cm. C) 171 cm. D) 164 cm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 171 cm. 18. Look at these numbers-11, 11, 7, 18, 8. What is the correct way to put them in order so you can find the median? A) 8, 7, 11, 11, 18. B) 7, 8, 11, 11, 18. C) 18, 11, 11, 8, 7. D) 11, 7, 8, 18, 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7, 8, 11, 11, 18. 19. What is the Mode? 22, 7, 22, 1, 7, 18, 18, 16, 6, 6, 7 A) 7. B) 6. C) 21. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 7. 20. The variance of a dataset is 16. If each observation of the dataset is doubled, what will be the new variance? A) 32. B) 16. C) 8. D) 64. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 32. 21. Calculate the mean of the following numbers:10, 15, 20, 25, 30 A) 22. B) 28. C) 20. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 20. 22. Mrs. Jones surveyed the class for the number of letters in their given first name. The data is recorded below.{5, 8, 6, 5, 4, 9, 8, 7, 6, 3, 8, 7, 5, 6, 7, 8}What is the interquartile range of the data? A) 3. B) 8. C) 2. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 23. What is the mode for the numbers 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, and 8? A) 4. B) 3. C) 5. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 24. What is the definition of the mean? A) The average. B) The middle number. C) The number that occurs the most. D) The difference between the highest and lowest numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The average. 25. The range of the numbers 34, 32, 12, 65, and 45 is ..... A) 53. B) 38. C) 32. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 53. 26. A data set can have more than one ..... A) Mode. B) Midrange. C) Mean. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 27. The upper (higher) whisker of the box plot is drawn from A) Q1 to the highest value. B) Q2 to the highest value. C) Q3 to the highest value that is not an outlier. D) Q2 to the highest value that is not an outlier. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Q3 to the highest value that is not an outlier. 28. Given the set of scores:43, 38, 43, 38, 38, 45, 36, 38, 43, 40, 35, 40WHAT IS THE VALUE OF THE MODE? A) 38. B) 45. C) 38 and 43. D) 43 and 45. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 38. 29. Find the median.2, 9, 7, 4, 6, 1 A) 4. B) 6. C) 7. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 30. The mean of a dataset is 40 and the mode is 35. If the median is 38, what can be inferred about the shape of the dataset? A) Positively skewed. B) Symmetrically distributed. C) Negatively skewed. D) NONE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positively skewed. 31. The measures of central tendency for the data set 1, 3, 9, 11, 2 are: A) Mean=5.2 median=3 mode=no mode. B) Mean=5.2 median=9 mode=no mode. C) Mean=5.2 median=9 mode=zero. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean=5.2 median=3 mode=no mode. 32. The heights of the starting 5 players on a basketball team are $60$ $68$ $64$ $65$ $65$ A) $68$. B) $61$. C) $66$. D) $70$. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $68$. 33. The mode of 3, 5, 5, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9 is: A) 9. B) 8. C) 7. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8. 34. Your math grades are 90, 85, 58, 90, 80, 100, and 90. Which grade is the outlier? A) 90. B) 58. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 58. 35. There can be more than one mode A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 36. Average salary of 50 men was ₹ 80 but it was foundthat salary of 2 of them were ₹ 46 & ₹ 28 which was wronglytaken as ₹ 64 & ₹ 82. Revised average salary is: A) 58.76. B) 78.56. C) 80. D) 85.76. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 78.56. 37. Descriptive statistics that offer information about where the scores in a particular data set tend to cluster are referred to in scientific jargon as what? A) Measures of generalized tendency. B) Normal measures of generalized tendency. C) Measures of central tendency. D) Inferential explorative statistics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Measures of central tendency. 38. Find the mode in the following data 6, 7, 6, 7, 8, 7, 6, 6 9, 10, 10, 7, 7 A) 8. B) 7. C) 6. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 39. Find the mode of the data set, Identify the outlier, and find the mode excluding outliers:100, 100, 100, 20, 120, 90. A) 20, 100, 20. B) 100, 100, 100. C) 100, 20, 100. D) 110, 120, 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 100, 20, 100. 40. A basketball team scored43, 55, 41 and 37 points in their first four matches.Determine the mean number of points scored for the first four matches and hence calculate What score will the team need to shoot in the next match so that they maintain the same mean score? A) 44. B) 35. C) 52. D) 27. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 44. 41. A data set can contain more than one median, or no median at all. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 42. ..... is the a measure of central tendency that is affected by extremely large or small values called the outliers. A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 43. The median of the top 50% of the number values in the data set is known as the ..... A) Principal. B) Upper Extreme. C) Range. D) Upper Quartile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Upper Quartile. 44. TRUE OR FALSE?The MEAN is the sum of the data divided by the number of items in the set. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 45. If you have two numbers in the middle, you should A) Add them together and divide by two. B) Find the number in between the two. C) Find the mean of the two numbers. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 46. Given the set of scores:43, 38, 43, 38, 38, 45, 36, 38, 43, 40, 35, 40WHAT IS THE MEDIAN VALUE? A) 40. B) 39. C) 38.5. D) 40.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 39. 47. The average temperatures across Washington, Texas, Oklahoma, New York, Missouri, Georgia, Hawaii and Michigan are 48$^\circ$F, 65$^\circ$F, 60$^\circ$F, 45$^\circ$F, 54$^\circ$F, 64$^\circ$F, 70$^\circ$F and 45$^\circ$F respectively. Find the median. A) 57$^\circ$ F. B) 50$^\circ$ F. C) 25$^\circ$ F. D) 56$^\circ$. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 57$^\circ$ F. 48. In 2019 the following number of babies were born in the Emerald City each month:12, 35, 18, 17, 13, 27, 12, 18, 27, 33, 15What is the range? A) 23. B) 3. C) 13. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 23. 49. What does the mean represent in a set of numbers? A) The average number. B) The number the appears most often. C) The highest number. D) The middle number. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The average number. 50. Sam works as an apprentice at the butcher. He is 5'9" and has a medium build. He is 19 years old. What does Sam weigh? A) Meat. B) Vegetables. C) 170 lbs. D) 155 lbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meat. 51. Determine the mean of the following set of numbers:40, 61, 95, 79, 9, 50, 80, 63, 109, 42 A) 62.8. B) 61.8. C) 62. D) 63. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 62.8. 52. If 20 is added to the data set below, which statement will be true?50, 55, 55, 60, 62 A) The mode will increase. B) The mean will increase. C) The mean will decrease. D) The median will be 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The mean will decrease. 53. The mode score on the Unit 1 Test was 94% Which of these interpretations must be correct? A) No student scored below a 50. B) A score of 91 was slightly below average. C) 99 was the highest score on the test. D) More students received a 94 than any other score. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) More students received a 94 than any other score. 54. What is the mean of the data set:10, 15, 20, 25, 30? A) 15. B) 18. C) 25. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 20. 55. If a number is added to a set that is the same as the mean, how does this affect the mean? A) Increase. B) Decrease. C) Stay the same. D) It will both increase and decrease. E) None of those. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stay the same. 56. The salary of the employees in the office were $ 15, 000; $ 18, 000; $ 16, 000; $ 14, 000; $ 90, 000; and $ 17, 000. What is the best measure of the central tendency of the salaries? A) Mean. B) Range. C) Mode. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Median. 57. Lizzy had test scores of:72, 94, 108, 60What is the RANGE of her test scores? A) 72. B) 98. C) 48. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 48. 58. Jasmine has spent $ 50, $ 72, $ 22 and $ 15 each of the last 4 weeks. If she wants to make sure she spends an average of $ 40 a week or less, what is the most Jasmine can spend next week? A) $ 41. B) $ 31. C) $ 1. D) $ 21. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $ 41. 59. TRUE OR FALSE?The middle number of the data after ordering from least to greatest is called the mean. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 60. Grouped Data-A set or array of things or observation that has not undergone any classification. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 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