Statistics — JEE Main PYQs

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  1. Let the mean and variance of 7 observations , be 8 and 16 respectively. Two numbers are chosen from one after another without replacement, then the probability, that the smaller number among the two chosen num …
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  2. If the mean deviation about the median of the numbers is 500, then is equal to :
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  3. Let the mean and variance of 8 numbers be and , respectively. Then the mean of 4 numbers is:
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  4. If the mean and the variance of the data

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    \hline Class & & & & \\
    \hline Frequency & 3 & & 4 & 7 \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}

    are and 19 respectively, then the value of is
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  5. The mean and variance of a data of 10 observations are 10 and 2, respectively. If an observation in this data is replaced by , then the mean and variance become 10.1 and 1.99, respectively. Then equals.
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  6. Let and for some , . If the mean and variance of the elements of Y are 30 and 750, respectively, th …
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  7. The mean and variance of 10 observations are 9 and 34.2, respectively. If 8 of these observations are , then the mean deviation about the median of all the 10 observations is
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  8. If the mean of the data
    Class5-1010-1515-2020-2525-3030-35
    Frequency2k2854k+15

    is 21, then k is one of the roots of the equation :
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  9. For 10 observations , if and , then their standard deviation is :
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  10. Suppose that the mean and median of the nonnegative numbers 21, 8, 17, a, , , are 40 and 21, respectively. If the mean deviation about the median is 26 , then 2 a is equal to :
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  11. The mean deviation about the mean for the data
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    862226

    is equal to :
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  12. Let the mean and the variance of seven observations , be 8 and 16 respectively. Then the quadratic equation whose roots are and is :
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  13. A data consists of 20 observations . If and , then the ratio of mean to standard deviation of this data is:
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  14. A set of four observations has mean 1 and variance 13. Another set of six observations has mean 2 and variance 1. Then, the variance of all these 10 observations is equal to :
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  15. The mean and variance of observations are 8 and 16, respectively. If the sum of the first () observations is 48 and the sum of squares of the first () observations is 496, then the value of n is :
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  16. Marks obtains by all the students of class 12 are presented in a frequency distribution with classes of equal width. Let the median of this grouped data be 14 with median class interval 12-18 and median class frequency 12. If the number of students whose marks are less than 12 is …
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  17. The variance of the numbers , is ______.
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  18. Let be ten observations such that and their variance is . If and are respectively the …
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  19. For a statistical data of 10 values, a student obtained the mean as 5.5 and . He later found that he had noted two values in the data incorrectly as 4 and 5, instea …
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  20. If the mean and the variance of , 13 are 9 and 9.25 respectively, then is equal to:
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  21. Let the Mean and Variance of five observations and , be 5 and 10 respectively. Then the Variance of the observations …
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  22. Let the mean and the standard deviation of the observation be 4 and respectively. Then the mean deviation about the mode of these observations is:
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  23. The mean and standard deviation of 100 observations are 40 and 5.1, respectively. By mistake one observation is taken as 50 instead of 40. If the correct mean and the correct standard deviation are and respectively, then is equal to
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  24. Let . Let the mean and the variance of 6 observations be 2 and 23, respectively. The mean deviation about the mean of these 6 observations is
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  25. Let the mean and the standard deviation of the probability distribution ; be and , respectively. If , then is equal to ____ .
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  26. The mean and standard deviation of 20 observations are found to be 10 and 2, respectively. On rechecking, it was found that an observation by mistake was taken 8 instead of 12. The correct standard deviation is
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  27. Let and . Let the mean, the mean deviation about the mean and the variance of the 5 observations be 18, 4 and , respectively. Then is equal to ______.
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  28. The frequency distribution of the age of students in a class of 40 students is given below.
    Age151617181920
    No. of Students58512xy

    If the mean deviation about the median is 1.25 , then …
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  29. If the variance of the frequency distribution is 160, then the value of is
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    f211111
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  30. If the mean and variance of five observations are and respectively and the mean of first four observations is , then the variance of the first four observations is equal to
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  31. Let the mean and the variance of 6 observation a, b, 68, 44, 48, 60 be 55 and 194, respectively if , then is
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  32. Let M denote the median of the following frequency distribution.
    Class0-44-88-1212-1616-20
    Frequency391086

    Then 20M is equal to:
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  33. The mean and standard deviation of 15 observations were found to be 12 and 3 respectively. On rechecking it was found that an observation was read as 10 in place of 12 . If and denote the mean and variance of the correct observations respectively, then …
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  34. Let be 10 observations such that and . Then the standard deviation of …
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  35. Consider 10 observation . such that and , where are positive integers. Let the mean and the variance of the observations be …
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  36. Let the median and the mean deviation about the median of 7 observation 170, 125, 230, 190, 210, a, b be 170 and respectively. Then the mean deviation about the mean of these 7 observations is :
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  37. If the mean and variance of the data where are and respectively, then is equal to
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  38. The variance of the data
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    3232633

    is ______.
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  39. If the mean and variance of the frequency distribution
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    4415845

    are 9 and 15.08 respectively, then the value of …
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  40. Let the mean and variance of 8 numbers be 9 and 9.25 respectively. If , then is equal to ______.
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  41. The mean and variance of a set of 15 numbers are 12 and 14 respectively. The mean and variance of another set of 15 numbers are 14 and respectively. If the variance of all the 30 numbers in the two sets is 13 , then is equal to
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  42. Let the mean and variance of 12 observations be and 4 respectively. Later on, it was observed that two observations were considered as 9 and 10 instead of 7 and 14 respectively. If the correct variance is , where m and n are co-pri …
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  43. Let be the mean and be the standard deviation of the distribution

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    \hline & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\
    \hline & & 2 k & & & …
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  44. If the mean of the frequency distribution

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    \hline Class: & & & & & \\
    \hline Frequency & 2 & 3 & x & 5 & 4 \\
    \hline
    \end{tabular}

    is 28 , then its variance is ____.
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  45. The mean and standard deviation of the marks of 10 students were found to be 50 and 12 respectively. Later, it was observed that two marks 20 and 25 were wrongly read as 45 and 50 respectively. Then the correct variance is ______.
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  46. Let the mean of the data
    x13579
    Frequency(f)424288

    be 5. If and are respectively the mean deviation about the mean and the variance of the data, then is equal …
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  47. The mean and standard deviation of 10 observations are 20 and 8 respectively. Later on, it was observed that one observation was recorded as 50 instead of 40. Then the correct variance is:
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  48. Let the mean of 6 observation 1, 2, 4, 5, x and y be 5 and their variance be 10. Then their mean deviation about the mean is equal to
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  49. Let sets A and B have 5 elements each. Let the mean of the elements in sets A and B be 5 and 8 respectively and the variance of the elements in sets A and B be 12 and 20 respectively. A new set C of 10 elements is formed by subtracting 3 from each element of A and adding 2 to eac …
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  50. The mean and variance of 7 observations are 8 and 16 respectively. If one observation 14 is omitted and and are respectively mean and variance of remaining 6 observation, then is equal to ____.
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