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 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 5 Measures Of Central Tendency Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In which of the following situations would the mean be an appropriate measure of central tendency? I. when the data set contains no outliers II. when using categorical data III. when an exact average is needed IV. when the middle value is needed A) II and III only. B) I and III only. C) I, III, and IV only. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I and III only. 2. Students in Year 8 are arranged in eleven classes. The class sizes are 23, 24, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30, 24, 29, 24, 27. What is the modal class size (mode)? A) 30. B) 27. C) 26. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 24. 3. The prices at several different stores for a pair of shoes are shown below. $ 78, $ 79, $ 81, $ 82, $ 83Two days later, another store has the same shoes on sale for $ 65. How does the new price affect the data? A) Only the range was affected. B) The median increased, and the range increased. C) The mean increased, and the range increased. D) The mean decreased and the range increased. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The mean decreased and the range increased. 4. What is the range of 45, 56, 23, 74, and 63? A) 23. B) 56. C) 18. D) 51. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 51. 5. Mr. Pusey times the speed of his sprinters every Friday. This week he had them run from one school building to the next. There times were in seconds were:52.6, 61.3, 74.8, 78.2, 86.2.What was the mean time? A) 70.64. B) 69.62. C) 70.62. D) 62.70. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 70.62. 6. Which measure of central tendency best represents this set of data:3, 18, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1 A) Median. B) Mean. C) Range. D) Mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Median. 7. Ellana scores these number on her spelling test:4, 6, 7. She would like her mean to be 6. What will she have to score next? A) 17. B) 2. C) 24. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 8. It is the value with the greatest frequency A) Mean. B) Variance. C) Median. D) Mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mode. 9. Find the median:12, 15, 13, 18, 23, 5? A) 16. B) 18. C) 14. D) 16.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 14. 10. What is the median of the following data set:1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 6? A) 1. B) 4. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 11. How would the mode change if a five was removed from the data set?4, 8, 5, 17, 5, 4, 9, 5, 6, 82 A) The mode would become a 4. B) There would be two modes:4 and 5. C) There would be no mode. D) The mode would stay the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) There would be two modes:4 and 5. 12. The sum of all the data items divided by the number of data items, is the measure of central tendency called the ..... A) Mode. B) Mean. C) (n+1)/2 position. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mean. 13. Mathew sold 78 apples on Monday, 58 apples on Tuesday, 80 apples on Wednesday, and 64 apples on Thursday. Find the average number of apples sold by Mathew. A) 50. B) 70. C) 140. D) 60. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 70. 14. The scores in a basketball match are as follows:7, 13, 18, 24, 9, 3, 18which score occurred most often? A) 9. B) 24. C) 18. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 18. 15. The large Greek symbol Sigma that looks like a capital E stands for: A) Standard deviation. B) Multiplication. C) Summation. D) Division. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Summation. 16. How is the median calculated? A) Sort all values and choose the middle value. B) Sum all the data points and divide by the number of data points. C) Count up the number of datapoints for each value. D) Determine how far from the mean a datapoint can be and still be relatively normal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sort all values and choose the middle value. 17. Austin hit some home runs in a game. He hit 9, 11, 12, and 8. He wants his mean to be 10. How many will he need in the next game? A) 40. B) 3. C) 10. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 18. If you score $76, 85, 97, $ $83$ A) $88$. B) $84$. C) $86$. D) $90$. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $84$. 19. Write 19/20 as a decimal and percent. A) 0.95 and 95%. B) 9.5 and 95%. C) 19.20 and 19%. D) 19.20 and 20%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0.95 and 95%. 20. What is the mode of the following numbers, and what word can be used to describe thedistribution of the data set?3, 5, 4, 10, 3, 3, 4, 7, 4, 6, 5, 11, 9, 5, 7 A) 3, 4, 5 TRIMODAL. B) 3 AND 4 BIMODAL. C) 3, 4, 5 AND 7 TRIMODAL. D) NO MODE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3, 4, 5 TRIMODAL. 21. What is the mean of the set of data 10, 11, 11, 10, 10, 9, 12, 13, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 4? A) 6.7. B) 5.6. C) 5.7. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5.7. 22. Which of the following gives gives the range of the middle 50% of the data? A) IQR. B) Q1. C) Q2. D) Q3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) IQR. 23. The scores Philip got in the last ten video games he played are:500, 600, -250, -100, 800, 750, 1300, -100, 1250, -200What is the range of these scores? A) 1, 550. B) 800. C) 1, 500. D) 1, 400. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1, 550. 24. Find the range.7, 1, 1, 7, 1, 4, 1 A) 3. B) 6. C) 5. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6. 25. In the formula of mode, represents: A) Frequency of modal class. B) Frequency before modal class. C) Frequency after modal class. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frequency before modal class. 26. In a dataset, the mean is 20 and the mode is 25. What is the value of the median? A) 25. B) 22. C) 18. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 22. 27. Which of the following values would need to be added to the set of values here to create a bimodal distribution?2, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 4 A) 3. B) 4. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 28. Measures of Central Tendency help us to relate numbers in a set of data to each other. For example, if the average student's grade in your math class is an 81, we know that someone who has a grade of 97 is performing well ABOVE the average in that class. Amongst the following choices, which grade would represent a student performance that is considered well BELOW average? A) 80. B) 77. C) 75. D) 62. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 62. 29. Find the mean of:5, 3, 4 A) 3. B) 1. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 30. Write 37/50 as a decimal and percent. A) 3.7 and 37%. B) 37.5 and 37.5%. C) 0.74 and 74%. D) 0.37 and 37%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0.74 and 74%. 31. Which of the following is the method for finding outliers in the lower direction? A) Q2 + (1.5 times IQR). B) Q1-(1.5 times IQR). C) Q2-(1.5 times IQR). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Q1-(1.5 times IQR). 32. What are the modes of the following sets of numbers?12, 0, 15, 15, 13, 19, 16, 13, 16, 16 A) 16. B) 13, 15, 16. C) 13. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 16. 33. Find the interquartile range of the data:20, 22, 25, 29, 31 A) 9. B) 30. C) 21. D) 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 9. 34. Which statement is supported by the data? The data below represent cell phone bills in dollars for 6 randomly selected students.160, 320, 100, 110, 200, 220 A) The mean cell phone bill is 200. B) The most common cell phone bill is 200. C) Half of the bills are bigger than 100. D) The median cell phone bill is 180. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The median cell phone bill is 180. 35. If all values of a data are multiplied by 2, the mean will: A) Be divided by 2. B) Remain same. C) Be multiplied by 2. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Be multiplied by 2. 36. Write the median and mode for the following set of data 43, 37, 49, 51, 56, 40, 44, 50, 36 A) 56 and 44. B) 44 and none. C) 56 and none. D) 53.5 and none. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 44 and none. 37. A data value that occurs most often in a data set is the measure of central tendency called the ..... A) Mode. B) (n+1)/2 position. C) Mean. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 38. Cumulative Frequency is required for which of the following measures? A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 39. What is the Median?34, 98, 12, 45, 61 A) 34. B) 45. C) 98. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 40. Find the median and the mode for the following set of data 11, 17, 7, 6, 7, 4, 15, 9 A) 8, 7. B) 6, 7. C) 7, 6. D) 7, 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8, 7. 41. What is the middle value in a set of data arranged in numerical order? A) Variance. B) Mean. C) Median. D) Mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Median. 42. Find the range of the scores below.5, 15, 10, 20, 15, 10, 15 A) 5. B) 10. C) 15. D) 20. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 15. 43. The measure of central tendency that is the data item in the middle of ranked, or ordered, data is called the ..... A) Median. B) Mode. C) (n+1)/2 position. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Median. 44. If you score 76, 85, 97, and 83 on your math tests for the unit, what would your median score be? A) 84. B) 90. C) 88. D) 85. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 84. 45. Find the lower quartile (Q1) of the following set of scores 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 A) 9. B) 6. C) 13. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 46. The mean of 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 is: A) 14. B) 16. C) 12. D) 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 47. Find the mean of the following set of data.2.3, 3.1, 3.5, 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.2 A) 2.917. B) 2.791. C) 2.971. D) 2.197. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2.971. 48. Which measure of central tendency is robust to outliers? A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Standard Deviation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 49. What does the mode represent in a set of numbers? A) The highest number. B) The number the appears most often. C) The average number. D) The middle number. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The number the appears most often. 50. Is there an outlier? If so, what is it?17, 36, 45, 98, 25, 34, 19, 45, 36 A) Outlier:none. B) Outlier:98. C) Outlier:98 and 17. D) Outlier:17. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outlier:98. 51. Which of the following is the correct term for the difference of quartile 1 and quartile 3? A) Minimum. B) Maximum. C) IQR. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) IQR. 52. DATA SET:34, 32, 12, 65, and 45 find the range A) 32. B) 38. C) 53. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 53. 53. Which measure of central tendency makes the most sense in this situation? An insurance analyst wants to calculate the ..... age of the individuals they provide insurance for so the marketing team can pinpoint advertisements to this age group. A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mode. 54. Five people play golf and at one hole their scores are3, 4, 4, 5, 7Find (a) the mean (b) the median (c) the mode (d) the range . A) 4 (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) 4. B) 4.5 (b) 5 (c) 4 (d) 6. C) 4.1 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 4. D) 4.6 (b) 4 (c) 4 (d) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4.6 (b) 4 (c) 4 (d) 4. 55. What is the median of 9, 4, 10, 6, 8, 17, 13 A) 10. B) 9. C) 6. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 56. Identify the outlier for the given data?23, 34, 27, 7, 30, 26, 28, 31, 34 A) 23. B) 7. C) 31. D) 34. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 57. What is the difference between the mean and the median of this set of numbers?{3, 4, 6, 7} A) 10. B) 4. C) 0. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0. 58. Find the mean of the data. 108, 95, 104, 96, 97, 106, 94 A) 97. B) 96. C) 108. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 100. 59. Which measure of Central Tendency takes into account all observation? A) Mean. B) Median. C) Standart Deviation. D) Mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 60. The deviations from the mean: A) Sum to zero. B) Are always positive. C) Are always negative. D) None of the above. 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