This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 11 > Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 5 Measures Of Central Tendency – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 11 Economics (Statistics For Economics) Chapter 5 Measures Of Central Tendency Quiz 18 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the median represent in a set of numbers? A) Whatever number is in the middle of the list, regardless of the value of the numbers. B) The number that represents the middle value in the set of numbers. C) The number that appears most often. D) The average number. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The number that represents the middle value in the set of numbers. 2. Is the following question statistical or non statistical?How many cars are in the parking lot? A) Statsitical. B) Non Statistical. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Non Statistical. 3. This statistical number is the middle number of the data set. A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 4. The (a) is the average of the numbers. A) A. mean. B) Mode. C) Range. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. mean. 5. Positive Skewness is where the graph A) Has a tail that extends out to the right. B) Has a tail that extends out to the left. C) Is bell shaped. D) Is a frequency polygon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Has a tail that extends out to the right. 6. The mean of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 is: A) 10. B) 15. C) 20. D) 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 15. 7. The number of books borrowed in the library from Monday to Friday last week were 58, 60, 54, 35 and 97 respectively. Find the mean A) 60.80. B) 60.08. C) 80.60. D) 80.06. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 60.80. 8. Find the Upper Quartile (Q3) of the following numbers:84, 88, 72, 74, 98, 16, 94 A) 72. B) 88. C) 94. D) There is no Upper Quartile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 94. 9. What is mode? A) The number that occurs the most in a data set. B) The average of all the numbers. C) The middle number in the data. D) The range of the data. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The number that occurs the most in a data set. 10. Kayte took a sample of 50 pieces of data. She added up all of the pieces of data and then divided by 50. What measure of center is she working on? A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 11. What happens to the median of the following set of data if 15 is added?17, 31, 28, 16, 45, 20 A) It will increase by 4. B) It will decrease by 4. C) It will increase by 5. D) It will decrease by 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It will decrease by 4. 12. When finding the mean, it is necessary to arrange the data items in order. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. 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. 14. 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) 24. B) 30. C) 26. D) 27. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 24. 15. 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. 16. What is the range of 45, 56, 23, 74, and 63? A) 18. B) 51. C) 23. D) 56. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 51. 17. 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) 70.62. C) 69.62. D) 62.70. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 70.62. 18. Which measure of central tendency best represents this set of data:3, 18, 2, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1 A) Mean. B) Median. C) Mode. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 19. 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) 24. C) 7. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7. 20. It is the value with the greatest frequency A) Mode. B) Variance. C) Median. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 21. Find the median:12, 15, 13, 18, 23, 5? A) 14. B) 16. C) 16.5. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14. 22. What is the median of the following data set:1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 6? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 23. 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. 24. The sum of all the data items divided by the number of data items, is the measure of central tendency called the ..... A) Mean. B) Median. C) (n+1)/2 position. D) Mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 25. 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) 60. B) 50. C) 70. D) 140. 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