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 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 5 Measures Of Central Tendency Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which descriptive measure is best for skewed ratio data? A) Mean. B) Median. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 2. Determine the mode for each of the following set of data.20, 22, 25, 23, 27, 21, 28 A) 23. B) 25. C) 21. D) No modes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No modes. 3. Which of the following is not affected by extreme values? A) Mean. B) Median. C) Both. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 4. Find the IQR (Q3-Q1) of the data 20, 22, 25, 29, 31 A) 9. B) 30. C) 25. D) 21. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9. 5. The ..... is the measure of central tendency that represents the middle number in a set of data. A) Median. B) Average. C) Mode. D) Principal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Median. 6. What is an outlier? A) A value that is much less or much greater than the other values in a data set. B) The difference between the upper and lower quartiles of a data set. C) The mean of the distances from each data value in a set to the mean of a set. D) The difference between the greatest and least numbers in a data set. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A value that is much less or much greater than the other values in a data set. 7. Find the median of:-2.9, 3.6, 2.2, 3.9, -4.8, 2.6, -5.3, 4.8, -5.1, 2.6, 1.2, -4 A) 1.4. B) 1.6. C) 1.5. D) 1.7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1.7. 8. An OUTLIER in a set of data is a number that is far away from the rest of the numbers.Identify the OUTLIER in this data set.5, 8, 10, 11, 15, 53 A) 0. B) 53. C) 5. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 53. 9. What is median?118, 138, 120, 78, 138, 130 A) 120. B) 125. C) 135. D) 130. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 125. 10. The measure of central tendency that is found by adding the lowest and highest data values and dividing the sum by 2 is called the ..... A) Midrange. B) Mean. C) Mode. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Midrange. 11. Which one would be the best to use:16, 17, 18, 18, 18, 18, 19 A) Range. B) Mode. C) Median. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mode. 12. What is the range of the data? 108, 95, 104, 96, 97, 106, 94 A) 14. B) 108. C) 94. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14. 13. If n data items are arranged in order, from smallest to largest, the data item in the middle is the value in ..... A) Median. B) Mean. C) Mode. D) (n+1)/2 position. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (n+1)/2 position. 14. Measures of central tendency which is greatly affected by extremely low or high scores. A) Mean. B) Frequency. C) Mode. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 15. What effect will the outlier have on the median of the data if the outlier is excluded? 4, 6, 3, 4, 3, 6, 24 A) Increases. B) Insufficient information to conclude. C) Decrease. D) Does not change. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Does not change. 16. If a number is added to a set that is smaller than 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: B) Decrease. 17. How will removing 82 impact the median of the given dataset?4, 8, 5, 17, 5, 4, 9, 5, 6, 82 A) It won't change. B) It will get larger. C) It will get smaller. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It won't change. 18. What is the mean?88, 63, 40, 50, 34 A) 50. B) 55. C) 40. D) 45. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 55. 19. By how much will the mean vary if the outlier is included?88, 78, 90, 82, 46, 95, 77 A) 79.4. B) 85. C) 6.1. D) 5.6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5.6. 20. The scores awarded to 25 students for an assignment were as follows:4 7 5 9 8 6 7 7 8 5 6 9 8 5 8 7 4 7 3 6 8 9 7 6 9What is the mode? A) 6. B) 9. C) 8. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 21. What is the median for 10, 8, 12, 7, 11, 22, and 6? A) 11. B) 9. C) 12. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10. 22. What effect will the outlier have on the median of the data if the outlier is excluded?64, 56, 59, 125, 58, 64, 65 A) Decreases. B) Increases. C) Does not change. D) Can not be determined. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decreases. 23. Given the set of scores:43, 38, 43, 38, 38, 45, 36, 38, 43, 40, 35, 40WHAT IS THE NUMBER OF CASES? A) 10. B) 13. C) 11. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 24. The formula for calculating Mean for Grouped data-Discrete Variate case is A) Mean = $\sigma$x/n. B) Mean = $\sigma$fx/$\sigma$fx. C) Mean = $\sigma$fx/$\sigma$f. D) Mean = $\sigma$fx/$\sigma$x. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mean = $\sigma$fx/$\sigma$f. 25. If you scored 76, 85, 97, and 83 on your summative assessments in MMW, what would your median score be? A) 88. B) 90. C) 85. D) 84. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 84. 26. Determine the range of the data set:12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27 A) 15. B) 30. C) 20. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 15. 27. Juan took four 10 point tests and scored an average of 6. If he took a fifth test and scored an 8, how would that affect his mean score? A) It would decrease. B) It would increase. C) It would remain the same. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It would increase. 28. Mike biked the following miles on various days:5, 10, 7, 3, 9, 2How many miles does he need to travel for his median miles biked to be 5 miles? A) 6 miles. B) 9 miles. C) 4 miles. D) 8 miles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4 miles. 29. The temperature for a week in July had highs of 76, 84, 83, 91. What will happen to the mean if the temperature the next day is 76? A) It will decrease by 1.5. B) It will decrease by 3. C) It will increase by 1.5. D) It will increase by 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It will decrease by 1.5. 30. Find the mode of:2.3, 7.2, 8.2, -9.1, 4.9, -9.8, 5.3, 6.2, 8.7, -5, 5.7, -0.5 A) No mode. B) Unimodal. C) Bimodal. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No mode. 31. Find the mean of the data set18, 2, 0, 0, 0 A) 20. B) 5. C) 4. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 32. Which of the following is also called as the Positional Average A) Median. B) Quartile Deviation. C) Airthematic Mean. D) Geometric Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Median. 33. If x and y are related by x-y-10 = 0 & mode of x isknown to be 23, then the mode of y is: A) 23. B) 13. C) 3. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 13. 34. The squared deviations from the mean A) Can be positive and negative values. B) Sum to zero. C) Are always positive values. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Are always positive values. 35. Penelope spent the following hours of time on homework Monday through Friday.3, 7, 8, and 4.How many hours would she need to work to have a median of 5 hours spent on homework for the week. A) 3. B) 6. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6. 36. What is the formula to calculate the mean of a set of numbers? A) Mean = (Sum of all numbers) * (Total count of numbers). B) Mean = (Sum of all numbers) + (Total count of numbers). C) Mean = (Sum of all numbers) / (Total count of numbers). D) Mean = (Sum of all numbers)-(Total count of numbers). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mean = (Sum of all numbers) / (Total count of numbers). 37. It is the middle entry or term in a set of data arranged in either increasing or decreasing order. A) Variance. B) Mean. C) Mode. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Median. 38. If one or more data items are much greater than the other items, the mean, rather than the median, is more representative of the data. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 39. Which of the following measures of variability is the most reliable? A) Range. B) Mean deviation. C) Variance. D) Standard deviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Standard deviation. 40. If the mean of a data set is 10, what is the missing piece of data? 5, 4, 7, 15, 12, ..... A) 16. B) 7. C) 20. D) 17. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 17. 41. When should you use the standard deviation? A) When you want a measure that is robust to outliers. B) When you want an outlier to have an effect on your measure of centrality. C) When you want to measure how not normal something is. D) When you want to know the most common value of a dataset. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When you want to measure how not normal something is. 42. Write 4/5 as a decimal and percent. A) 4.5 and 45%. B) 0.8 and 8%. C) 0.45 and 45%. D) 0.8 and 80%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0.8 and 80%. 43. How long did it take for each person to get to to school? A) Statistical. B) Non-statistical. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Statistical. 44. The weights, in grams, of seven sweet potatoes are260, 225, 205, 240, 232, 205, 214 What is the median weight? A) 225. B) 200. C) 240. D) 205. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 225. 45. How do we find the median when there are exactly TWO numbers in the middle of the data set? A) We add up all of the numbers and divide by the number of numbers. B) Subtract the lower extreme from the upper extreme. C) Add the two numbers together and divide the sum by 2. D) Use the formula I = P x r x t. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Add the two numbers together and divide the sum by 2. 46. Your teacher has asked you to explain the difference between quantitative and qualitative observations. Which statement is correct? A) Quantitative observations use measurement, qualitative uses numbers. B) Quantitative observations use numbers, qualitative uses the senses. C) Quantitative observations use colors, qualitative uses the senses. D) Quantitative observations use the senses, qualitative uses numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quantitative observations use numbers, qualitative uses the senses. 47. Compute Lower Class Boundary (LBMd) by adding 0.5 on the Lower-class boundary containing the median class. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 48. When you are trying to find the MEDIAN of a set of data and 2 numbers are left in the middle after putting them in order from least to greatest, what do you do? A) List both of the numbers as the Median. B) Add the two numbers together and divide by 2. C) Pick the one that you want. D) Subtract the two numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Add the two numbers together and divide by 2. 49. What is the first step when looking at data? A) Put them in order from least to greatest. B) Sort the data into categories. C) Find the range. D) Find the mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Put them in order from least to greatest. 50. Calculate the median for this set of data22, 32, 44, 11, 5, 28, 19, 30. A) Median=22. B) Median=28. C) Median=24.5. D) Median=25. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Median=25. 51. What number would you divide by to find the mean of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5? A) 15. B) 5. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 52. Rita is accepting donations. So far she has collected $ 5, $ 25, $ 3, $ 2, $ 6, $ 8, $ 7, and $ 5.Which measure of central tendency best describes the data? A) Median. B) Mode. C) Mean. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Median. 53. Which of the following measures of central tendency are resistant to extremely large or extremely small values compared with the rest of the data? A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Standard deviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 54. What is the median of the following numbers? 4, 5, 8, 12, 16, 24 A) 10. B) 11.5. C) 10.5. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 55. Jason scored the following on his test:87, 75, 67, 85, 91, 80, and 95. His teacher allowed him to retake a test to replace his lowest test score. If he scores an 80, how will this effect the median? A) The median will not change. B) The median will increase. C) The median will decrease. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The median will not change. 56. The number of miles that Jenna cycled each week for a 7-week period is shown:36, 42, 28, 52, 48, 36, 31 What is the mean number of miles Jenna cycled? A) 41. B) 31. C) 36. D) 39. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 39. 57. Which is a more resilient measure of central tendency? A) Mean. B) Mode. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 58. Which one would be the best to use:75, 73, 72, 70, 68, 66 A) Median. B) Mean. C) Mode. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mean. 59. By how much will the mean vary if the outlier is included?75, 65, 77, 69, 34, 82, 64 A) 5.9. B) 72. C) 66.6. D) 5.4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5.4. 60. Which is the MIDDLE? A) Mode. B) Range. C) Median. D) Mean. 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