Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 5 Measures Of Central Tendency Quiz 2 (60 MCQs)

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1. In a perfectly symmetrical data set, how do the mean, median, and mode compare?
2. The ages of weekend basketball players are 40, 42, 37, 20, 35, 28, 32, 43, 39, and 34 respectively. Find the mean and median ages
3. Midterm exam scores for a small advanced neuroanatomy class are provided below.87, 99, 75, 87, 94, 75, 35, 75What is the modal value from the test scores?
4. Which measure of central tendency best represents this set of data:13, 13, 11, 13, 10, 12, 11
5. When should you use the median as a measure of centrality?
6. There can be more than one mean
7. By how much will the mean vary if the outlier is included?79, 69, 81, 73, 38, 86, 68
8. Mean salary of 10 teachers is 6000, what is the average salary?
9. What measure of central tendency is calculated by adding all the values and dividing the sum by the number of values?
10. How is the standard deviation calculated?
11. The data shows the test scores of four different classes.Algebra:{87, 91, 64, 88, 74}Geometry:{98, 86, 84, 91, 79}Statistics:{87, 72, 84, 88, 91}Pre-Algebra:{63, 82, 78, 71, 74}Which class had the smallest interquartile range?
12. Fredericka scored 75%, 63%, 82%, and 80% on four test. What score does she need on the next test for her average grade to be 78%?
13. What is the median?22, 14, 33, 22, 12, 14, 12
14. What is the mean of a data set?
15. A man travels at a speed of 20 km/hr & then returns ata speed of 30 km/ hr. His average speed of journey is:
16. What is the Q3 of this data set?6, 7, 2, 1, 5, 2, 1, 6
17. The median of 0, 2, 2, 2, -3, 5, -1, 5, 5, -3, 6, 6, 5, 6
18. The points scored in each game by Darby Middle School's football team are 21, 35, 14, 17, 28, 14, 7, 21, and 14. If they score 9 points on there next game, how will it effect the mean?
19. Alfonso plays basketball on a team. He has played three games so far. In the first game, he scored 10 points. In the second game, he scored 16 points. In the third game, he scored 7 points. What is Alfonso's average points per game?
20. 42, 25, 31, 37, 46, 29, 38What is the interquartile range of the data?
21. Find x if 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17 and x have a mean of 12.
22. Statistical questions have ..... possible answers.
23. At Donald's Donuts the number of donut holes in a bag can vary. Help Donald find the MODE.12, 10, 10, 10, 13, 12, 11, 13, 10
24. The data below represents the number of canoes rented each month from May through October. Find the mean absolute deviation. Round to the nearest hundredth.{15, 29, 36, 45, 31, 12}
25. What is the median of the following numbers:10, 9, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3
26. This measure of center is calculated by adding all of the data set together and then dividing by the number of data points in the set.
27. The relation between mean, median and mode is:
28. The number of miles that Kiki cycled each week for a 7-week period is shown:36, 42, 28, 52, 48, 36, 31 What is the median number of miles Kiki cycled?
29. Grace has 5 cats that are 5, 2, 7, 6, and 3 years old. If she gets a new cat that is 5 years old, how will that effect the median age of the cats?
30. What effect will the outlier have on the median of the data if the outlier is excluded? 2, 2, 2, 2, 8, 2, 24
31. The mean of a dataset is 15. If one observation of value 25 is added to the dataset, what will be the new mean?
32. If the mean of a dataset is 50 and the median is 45, what can be said about the skewness of the dataset?
33. What measure represents the value that repeats the most
34. Harley surveyed his classmates about how many siblings they have and got the following data:0, 1, 3, 5, 4, 2, 2, 9, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3 Which measure is best measure of center of the data?
35. What is the mode of the following data set?5, 7, 7, 8, 12, 12, 5, 6, 13, 12
36. DATA SET:3, 7, 24, 3, 7, 7, 1, 3, 7, 3find the mode
37. What is the median of 1, 3, 1, 2, 4?
38. A set of data is given:3, 7, 11, 11, 16Jesse calculated a measure of central tendency and got 9.6, which measure of central tendency did he just calculate?
39. On the semester final, Joe scored 85, Jill scored 89, and Bill scored a 99.What was the average score for these students? .....
40. Find the range of:9, 12, 25, 1, 6
41. Which descriptive measure is best for symmetrical ratio data? Choose the highest appropriate measure.
42. What is the median for the set of data 9, 12, 28, 12, 32, 67, 23, 23?
43. ..... is a measure of central tendency that needs to be arranged from least to greatest.
44. Determine the mode of the following data set:3, 3, 6, 6, 9, 9, 12, 12
45. What is the standard deviation of variance 64?
46. The mode score on the 9th grade math test was 94! Which of these interpretations must be correct?
47. What is the mean of the following numbers? 10, 39, 71, 39, 76, 38, 25
48. If the value of Mean and Median are 34.5 and 34.1 respectively, the value of the mode can be
49. 14, 7, 12, 17, 15, 10
50. At Dunkin Donuts, the number of donut holes in a bag can vary. Help Harold find the mode of the number of donut holes per bag described in the sample below:{12, 10, 10, 10, 13, 12, 11, 13, 10}
51. If you score 76, 85, 97, and 82 on your math tests, what would your mean (average) score be?
52. The first step in locating the mode of a grouped data is by finding the class with highest frequency.
53. DATA SET:5, 11, 2, 12, 4, 2find the average
54. Ford measured the gas mileage in one of their pickups. They found the following data.24, 12, 10, 15, 10, 22, 12What is the median miles per gallon for the pickup?
55. Roger tried to fill up fifteen bottles of water with the same amount of water. The amounts of water in the bottles were measured in ounces. 15.4, 15.5, 16.5, 14.6, 16.2, 14.3, 14.8, 16.6, 15.3, 14.7, 16.9, 17.2, 15, 15.7, 15.8 Which would be the best measure of center for these amounts of water?
56. What is the range of the set:49, 68, 62, 47, 39, 54, 43
57. Calculate the median of the distribution.
58. Four friends went shopping for school clothes. Sha bought 5 shirts, Drea bought 4 shirts, Kath bought 6 shirts, and Princess bought only 1 shirt. Which answer choice represents the mean of the shirts purchased?
59. Your basketball team plays 5 games. Your team scores:10 points in the first game, 3 points in the second game, 2 points in the third game, 5 points in the fourth game, and 0 points in the fifth game. What was the mean number of points your team scored for all 5 games?
60. A play has 7 people with all different ages:10, 10, 12, 14, 22, 13, and 24. What is the median age of participants in the play?