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 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 5 Measures Of Central Tendency Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When should you use the mode? A) When you want to measure how not normal something is. B) When you want to know the most common value of a dataset. C) When you want an outlier to have an effect on your measure of centrality. D) When you want a measure that is robust to outliers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When you want to know the most common value of a dataset. 2. Nicole bowled 7 games last weekend. Her scores are:155, 165, 138, 172, 127, 193, 142. What is the range of Nicole's scores? A) 60. B) 193. C) 66. D) 127. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 66. 3. What is the Median?8, 13, 2, 4, 48 A) 2. B) 8. C) 48. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 4. Which measure of central tendency best represents this set of data:3, 4, 5, 4, 5 A) Median. B) Range. C) Mode. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mean. 5. What is the mode in the following numbers? [3, 24, 3, 7, 30, 1, 3, 7, 3] A) 3 and 7 both are modes. B) 1 and 7 both are modes. C) 3 only. D) 7 only. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3 only. 6. Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for a data that describes the heights of grade 5 students? A) Outlier. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mean. 7. Which measure of central tendency makes the most sense in this situation? A teacher is going to give a grade in a course based on test grades. They will use the ..... of all of one student's test grades. A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 8. This measure of center is the data number that occurs most often. A) Mean. B) Range. C) Mode. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mode. 9. The mean of eight numbers is 41. The mean of two of the numbers is 29 What is the mean of the other six numbers? A) 45. B) 72. C) 55. D) 34. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 45. 10. 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. Find the mean A) 9 Points. B) 10 Points. C) 11 Points. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 11 Points. 11. From January to September, the mean number of car accidents per month was 630. From October to December, the mean was 810 accidents per month. What was the mean number of car accidents per month for the whole year? A) 760. B) 675. C) 700. D) 812. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 675. 12. How will removing 82 impact the mean of the given dataset?4, 8, 5, 17, 5, 4, 9, 5, 6, 82 A) It will not change. B) It will be larger. C) It will be smaller. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It will be smaller. 13. Third Quartile is A) A measure used to describe the distribution of data. B) Also called the upper quartile. C) Also called the lower quartile. D) The sum of the numbers in a set of data divided by the number of pieces of data. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Also called the upper quartile. 14. In a grouped data, in what class can the median be found? A) Mean class. B) Median class. C) Modal class. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median class. 15. Anna has test scores of 72, 94, 100, 62.What is the range of her test scores? A) 32. B) 72. C) 100. D) 38. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 38. 16. Is the following question statistical or non statistical?What pets does our class have? A) Statistical. B) Non statistical. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statistical. 17. Ten judges rated a movie on a scale of 1 to 10. Their rates are given below:6, 5, 8, 9, 5, 4, 9, 10, 5, 8What is the mode of the ratings? A) 8. B) 9. C) 5. D) No mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5. 18. DATA SET:9, 8, 12, 6, 10 find the mean A) 5. B) 11. C) 9. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 9. 19. What is the definition of the median? 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: B) The middle number. 20. Bionca has 5 apple trees in her backyard. The trees produced 6, 13, 14, 9 apples. What happens to the median score if the last tree produced 7 apples. A) It will increase by 2. B) It will stay the same. C) It will decrease by 2. D) It will increase by 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It will decrease by 2. 21. What does the standard deviation measure? 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) How not normal something is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How not normal something is. 22. The following numbers were the result of data collected when students were asked how many pets they had in there home:0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6What is the range of the data? A) 2. B) 5. C) 6. D) 1.9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6. 23. Assertion(A):The third quartile of the data 1, 20, 3, 15, 6, 8, 13, 5, 21, 23, 17, 10, 9, 12, 18, 21 is 18.Reason(R):For an ungrouped data, containing n observations, the upper quartile is given by $Q_3=\left(\frac{3n}{4}+1\right)th$ A) A is False, R is False. B) A is True, R is True. C) A is False, R is True. D) A is True, R is False. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A is False, R is True. 24. Which one would be the best to use:12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21 A) Mean. B) Range. C) Mode. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 25. It is recommended in SPSS to use the frequencies function rather than ..... due to the fact that the Frequencies function offers a broader array of descriptive statistics as well as charts and graphs. A) Crosstabs. B) Descriptives. C) Histograms. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Descriptives. 26. Hannah wants to find the mean of these numbers:5, 11, 2, 12, 4, 2What is it? A) 6. B) 4.5. C) 4. D) 4.1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 27. If you scored 76, 85, 97, and 83 on your Math tests last quarter, what would your median score be? A) 85. B) 84. C) 88. D) 90. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 84. 28. 42, 25, 31, 37, 46, 29, 38What is the third quartile of the data? A) 40. B) 37. C) 38. D) 46. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 40. 29. Find the median of the set = {3, 5, 5, 4, 19, 68, 25} A) 5. B) 7. C) 4. D) 19. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 30. Which of the following measure is appropriate for use with nominal data? A) Mean. B) Mode. C) Midpoint of the magnitude. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mode. 31. The temperature in Michigan City on this date in the last ten years were:68, 68, 69, 70, 72, 70, 68, 75, 55, 67. What is the mean temperature on this date over the last ten years? (Round to nearest whole number.) A) 69. B) 61. C) 68. D) 60. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 68. 32. The median of even number of terms is: A) First term. B) Last term. C) Middle term. D) Average of two middle terms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Average of two middle terms. 33. What is the term used to describe the distribution of a data set with one mode? A) Multimodal. B) Bimodal. C) Unimodal. D) No mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unimodal. 34. Which of the following is the arithmetic average of a set of data points? A) Midpoint of the magnitudes. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mean. 35. If the median of a dataset is 15, what can we say about the position of the 15th observation? A) It's the lowest value in the dataset. B) It's the highest value in the dataset. C) It's the middle value when the dataset is arranged in ascending order. D) It's equal to the mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's the middle value when the dataset is arranged in ascending order. 36. A sample of 10 measurements has a mean of 15.7 and a sample of 20 measurements has a mean of 14.3. Find the mean of all 30 measurements. A) 14.8. B) 16.3. C) 21.4. D) 17.1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14.8. 37. Find the mean of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 A) 3. B) 4. C) 2. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 38. What is the median of the set of data 24, 42, 34, 43, 55, 56, 74, 23, 24? A) 34. B) 43. C) 42. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 42. 39. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 40. In a data set, what is the value that appears most frequently known as? A) Mean. B) Mode. C) Average. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mode. 41. What is the mode?36, 41, 30, 22, 22, 59, 36, 72, 27, 30 A) 22. B) 30. C) 36. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 42. What is the Mean?9, 5, 7 A) 11. B) 8. C) 7. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7. 43. Determine the mode for each of the following set of data.12, 10, 11, 14, 17, 11 A) 12. B) 10. C) No modes. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 11. 44. Write 29/100 as a decimal and percent. A) 0.29 and 29%. B) 2.9 and 2.9%. C) 29 and 29%. D) 2.9 and 29%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0.29 and 29%. 45. What is the mean of the set of data 24, 42, 34, 43, 55, 56, 74, 23, 24? A) 41. B) 41.66. C) 41.69. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 41.66. 46. Five students were asked about pets at home. The following is their answers:Dog, Dog, Cat, Fish, Bird, Snail, DogWhich measure of central tendency best describes the data? A) Mode. B) Median. C) Mean. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 47. What effect will the outlier have on the median of the data if the outlier is excluded?66, 58, 61, 127, 60, 66, 67 A) Can not be deterimed. B) Decreases. C) Does not change. D) Increases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Decreases. 48. The mean of four numbers is 71.5. If three of the numbers are 58, 76, and 88, what is the value of the fourth number? A) 64. B) 60. C) 82. D) 76. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 64. 49. What measure represent the average A) Mode. B) Median. C) Mean. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mean. 50. What is the first step when looking at a data set? A) Find the mean. B) Sort the data into categories. C) Put the data in ascending order. D) Find the range. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Put the data in ascending order. 51. The front row in a movie theatre has 23 seats. If you were asked to sit in the seat that occupied the median position, in which seat would you have to sit? A) 23. B) 1. C) 12. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 52. Given the set of scores:43, 38, 43, 38, 38, 45, 36, 38, 43, 40, 35, 40COMPUTE FOR THE VALUE OF MEAN. A) 39.5. B) 38.5. C) 39.75. D) 37.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 39.75. 53. DATA SET:76, 85, 97, and 83 find the median A) 90. B) 88. C) 84. D) 85. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 84. 54. The median is the ..... number (after you put them in order). A) One you see most. B) Middle. C) Last. D) First. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Middle. 55. An ice cream parlor has six different flavors. They have 4 toppings and 2 types of cones. How many possible ice cream combinations are there? A) 12. B) 8. C) 48. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 48. 56. What is the FIRST thing you should do when finding the median? A) Find the middle number. B) Add up the digits. C) Order from least to greatest. D) Subtract the smallest from the largest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Order from least to greatest. 57. The heights of some students are given.158cm 172cm 164cm164cm 167cm 159cmWhat is the RANGE of the heights? A) 330 cm. B) 14 cm. C) 13 cm. D) 164 cm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14 cm. 58. Which is the closest to what most people would called the "average" ? A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 59. If Mode = 10, Median = 12, then Mean =? (Using the relation:Mode = 3Median-2Mean) A) 13. B) 11. C) 8. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 11. 60. Find the mean of:5.4, 5.2, 1.5, -3.9, -0.9, -4.3, 2.9, -1.4, 4.9, 3.9, -2.9, 4 A) 5. B) 12. C) 1.2. D) 1. 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