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Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 38mins
Distrust of statistics is due to
limitation of statistics
Misuse of statistics
Insufficient statistical methods
None of these
How does statistics help in economic planning
helps to make best use of national resources
helps compare development of various countries
All of these
None of these
Which of the following is NOT a limitation of statistics
It does not study individuals
Statistics can not be misused
Statistics does not study the qualitative aspect of a problem
None of these
Which of the following is an example of qualitative data
number of vegetarian students
number of illiterate people in India
everyday temperature
appreciation of art
By deliberately twisting or manipulating data, statistics can be used as another form of lying
True
False
Statistics is of no use to government in policy formulation
True
False
Determine the mean of first 10 natural numbers.
5.5
5.6
10.5
11.5
Find the mean of the following distribution
20
19
28
45
The scores of an English test out of 100 of 20 students are given below :
75, 69, 88, 55, 95, 88, 73, 64, 75, 98, 88, 95, 90, 95, 88, 44, 59, 67, 88, 99.
Find the median
90
88
95
100
The science of analysing data, drawing conclusion with respect to variation observed in data is called as____________?
CONCEPT
STATISTICS
DERIVATIVE
Mean=Total Number ofObservationSum of Observation
Find mean of
2, 3, 5, 8, 2
10
4
5
Median = Middle of any ordered Observation
Find Median of :
8, 2, 3, 5, 9
2
3
5
Median = Middle of any Ordered Observation
Find Median of:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
4
6
5
Mode = Most frequent value
Find Mode of :
2, 3, 4, 2, 5, 3, 2, 6
3
2
None
Which one of the following measures is determined only after the construction of cumulative frequency distribution?
Mean
Median
Mode
None of the above
Figures which relate to aggregates of facts are called as statistics
yes
no
What are the features of statistics are
a. Affected by multiple causes
b. Placed in relation to each other
c. Numerically expressed
d. All the above.
_________ Statistics deal with existing facts and figures or the facts of the past
Descriptive applied statistics
Inductive statistics
Analytical statistics
___________ statistics deals with relating the sample features to population characteristics
Analytical statistics
Inferential statistics
Scientific statistics
Statistics deals with individual data.
yes
no
_____________ is the data which is collected by field workers, investigators for the first time
primary data
secondary data
What are the merits of secondary data
a. It is convenient
b. Saves time & finance
c. None of the above
both a & b
Direct personal method is also known as
Questionnaire method
Schedule method
Interview method
What are the qualities of good questionnaire
Sequence of the question
Cross examination
Use of proper words
All the above.
____________ is the process of arranging data into sequence and groups according to their features
Collection data
organizing data
Analyzing data
What is the mid value of 130-135
132.5
133.5
131.5
___________ refers to the systematic arrangement of the information in rows & columns.
a. Presenting data
b. Tabulation
c. both a & b
d. none of the above
Which of the following is a method of collecting secondary data
a. direct personal research
b. indirect Direct Research
c. Information collection through questionnaire
d. none of these
A study was carried out to know the crop structure in a village of 200 farms. Of the 50 farms surveyed, 50% grew only wheat. Identify the population and the sample
population 50 and sample 200
population 200 and sample 50
population 250 and sample 50
population 250 and sample 150
The mode of the data 7,5,8,11,5,8,7,2,9,5 is
7
8
7,8
5
The mean of first 5 natural numbers
5
15
3
2.5
Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency
Mean
Range
Median
Mode
If the sample size increases the sampling error
Decreases
Increases
Remains constant
None of the above
Which of the following is not the part of the subject matter of Business statistics?
Appointment
Presentation of data
Analysis of data
Interpretation of data
The statistical data in the original form before any statistical technique are used to refine, process or summarise is called
Refined Data
Secondary Data
Raw Data
Information
The median of 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 will be
12
16
15
14
What is the mean?
4, 5, 6, 7, 3, 4, 10, 1
7
4.5
5
8
Find the average (mean) of these numbers:
5, 11, 2, 12, 4, 2
4.1
6
4.5
4
28, 18, 19, 18, 17
Tally marks are used to find
Frequency
Class Interval
Range
None of these
In which year the difference between import and export is the maximum?
1984-85
1985-86
1986-87
1983-84
0-10,11-20,21-30,31-40 ,the classes are called
Exclusive
Continuous
Inclusive
Boundaries
Mean of 6,8,4,12,x is 7 then value of x
4
5
6
7
