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Measures of location
1. Find the AM, GM and HM of the values 12.4, 12.6, 12.9, 12.1 and 12.3cms. 2. For the following data regarding number of children of 18 couples, find the Mean, the Median and the Mode. No. of children: 2, 1, 1, 3, 0, 1, 0, 2, 2, 5, 3, 1, 0, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1 3. In an office, there are 84 employees. Their salaries are as given below. Find the mean salary of the employees and also find the total salary bill. Salary(Rs.) 3430 8340 8860 14370 18560 24970 38560 39560 42560 # Employees 4 9 19 21 16 6 4 3 2 4. Calculate the mean, median and the mode. No. of children per couple 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 No. of couples 18 39 28 13 3 0 1 5. A sample of 9 trees from among the trees in an orange garden gave the following data. Number of oranges per tree: 83, 45, 64, 76, 38, 13, 57, 51, 26 Find the mean and the median. Justify the computation of each of these measures. 6. To find the average mileage (kilometers per litre petrol) of a car, three times the tank is filled with 5litres petrol and the distance covered in these cases are noted as 71, 68 and 72 kilometers. Find the average mileage. Justify your choice of the average. 7. A survey of 246 smokers revealed the frequency distribution of their daily expenditure on smoking. Calculate mean, median and modal daily expenditure on smoking. Also find the mean yearly expenditure. 10-29 30-49 50-69 70-89 90-109 110-129 130-149 150 -169 Expenditure(Rs.) No. of smokers 18 38 54 43 36 28 21 8 8. The marks scored by the students of a class in an examination is distributed as below. Find the mean, median, quartiles, 8th decile and 97th and 60th percentiles. Percentage Marks 0-34 35-49 50-59 60-69 70-99 100 # Students 16 55 27 25 35 6 9. An auditor, in the process of annual audit, noted down the balance held in some randomly selected SB A/Cs and formed a frequency distribution as below.
Balance (thousand rupees) 1 to 3 3 to 10 10 to 20 20 to 50 50 to 80 80 to 100 100 to 200

Number of accounts 86 49 20 13 1 0 1 th Find the mean balance. Find the 90 percentile and interpret. If there are 1346 accounts in the bank, find an estimate of the total balance in the accounts. 10. The following is the frequency distribution of daily average temperature at a place during the months of December and January. Find the arithmetic mean. (-3) - (-2) (-2) - (-1) (-1) - 0 0-1 1-2 2-3 Total Temperature (Celsius) Number of days 5 4 12 12 16 13 62 11. The following is the distribution of percentage alcohol content in 60 bottles of a medicine. Calculate the mean median and modal alcohol content. Percentage alcohol content 7.0 7.1 7.1-7.2 7.2-7.3 7.3-7.4 7.4-7.5 7.5-7.6 Number of bottles 5 13 18 14 7 3 12. The profit made by 130 firms in a year are as follows. Find the arithmetic mean and also the total profit. Profit(00000 rupees) 1-5 5-8 8-10 10-12 12-15 15-20 34 No. of firms 5 27 36 28 20 13 1

2 13. The following data relates to the percentage marks scored by students in a n examination. Compute the mean and the median. Percentage Less Less Less Less Less Less Less marks than 10 than 20 than 30 than 40 than 50 than 60 than 70 # Students 4 6 10 55 63 65 67 14. For a Botanical experiment, length of a variety of leaves is measured correct to a millimeter. The measurements of 105 leaves are as below. Find the mean and the median. Length (cms.) 3.0-3.9 4.0-4.9 5.0-5.9 6.0-6.9 7.0-7.9 8.0-8.9 # leaves 2 14 20 31 30 8 15. Find the mean, median and the mode. Income (above Rs.) 10000 12000 14000 16000 18000 20000 22000 No. of persons 80 62 33 16 6 2 0 16. Find the median, quartiles, 8th decile and 95th percentile. Height (less than cms.) 5 8 10 11 12 15 20 25 # cement blocks 0 7 16 25 57 84 96 100 17. For the following frequency distribution, the arithmetic mean is 121. Find the missing frequency. Class interval 110-114 114-118 118-122 122-126 126-130 130-134 Frequency 3 10 ? 14 7 1 18. If the median of the following distribution is 17.6, find the missing frequency. CI 10-12 12-14 14-16 16-18 18-20 20-22 22-24 Frequency 2 9 25 29 11 5 19. In the following distribution of marks scored by 60 students, two class frequencies are missing. If the mean marks is 52, find the missing frequencies. Marks 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 # Students 8 19 9 20. Find the geometric mean and harmonic mean. Class interval 10-12 12-14 14-16 16-18 18-20 Frequency 2 18 20 13 7 21. Find the GM of 1, 4 and 16. 22. Find the GM of 1.03, 1.04, 1.06 and 1.03. 23. A class has 10 girls and 70 boys. If mean marks of the girls is 83% and that of boys is 52%, find the mean marks for the class as a whole. 24. Mean daily wage of men is Rs. 300 and mean wage of women is Rs. 250. It 35 men and 4 women work, find their daily average wage. 25. Mean salary of 46 employees of a firm is Rs. 18,300/-. Subsequently, one employee joined service. If his salary is fixed at Rs. 13,400/-, find the new mean. 26. A firm has 18 business outlets 10 of which are in the urban area and the others are in the rural area. Each of the urban outlets has an average daily business turnover of Rs. 16,000 and the rural outlets have an average turnover of Rs. 4,075 each. Find the combined average. If with two additional new outlets the grand average fell by 5%, find the average business turnover of the two new outlets. 27. Mean height of 200 students is 171 Cms. If 120 of them are men and their mean height is 175Cms., find the mean height of women in the group.

3 28. Mean wage of a group of workers is Rs. 300. If mean wage of men is Rs. 320 and mean wage of women is Rs. 240, find the proportion of women in the group. 29. A bag contains one-rupee coins and two-rupee coins. Mean weight of these coins is 24.5gms. If mean weight of one-rupee coins is 20.1 gms. and mean weight of two-rupee coins is 30.3 gms., find the percentage of one-rupee coins in the bag. 30. A set of 20 values have mean 54. Another set of values have mean 60.If the combined mean is 56, how many values were there in the latter set? 31. Mean of 12 values is 128. While calculating this mean, one value which actually was 101 was wrongly read as 110. Find the actual mean of the values. 32. Mean marks of 10 students is 35%. If 5% grace is given to each student, what is the new mean? 33. Mean marks of 10 students is 35%. If 5% grace is given to each student other than 2 students who already have scored 100%, find the new mean. 34. Average SB A/c balance of 20 SB A/cs is Rs. 3520. If 4% interest is paid to each A/c, what would the new average balance be? 35. Average SB A/c balance of 20 SB A/cs is Rs. 3520. If 4% interest is paid to each of the 18 A/cs which are in order, what would the new average balance be? 36. The mean and median of a frequency distribution are 73 and 75 respectively. Find the mode. 37. Three solutions of a chemical have 20%, 10% and 40% concentration. If 10ml, 20ml and 40ml of these solutions are mixed, what would be the concentration of the resulting solution? 38. Mean height of 10 brides is 163 Cms. If their grooms are taller than them, on an average by 12 Cms., find the average height of the grooms. 39. The marked price of a commodity is 10% more than its cost price. If the commodity is sold at 10% discount on the marked price, what is the percentage profit? 40. In the past four weeks, the inflation rates were 6.7, 5.4, 5.3 and 5.1 percent respectively. Find the average inflation rate. 41. Price of TV sets increased by 10% and 2% in two successive years. In the following year, it decreased by 22%. Find the average rate of increase. 42. Population of a city grew at the rates 4%, 3%, 10%, 12% and 18% in five successive years. Find the average annual growth rate. 43. In a 4x400 relay running race, the members of a team ran at the speeds 8, 7, 6 and 8 meters per second. Find their average speed. 44. A square frame is hung through one of its vertices. A wasp moves along the four sides of the square at speeds 8Cms., 3Cms., 2Cms. and 5cms per minute. Find its average speed. 45. A survey of 62 couples revealed the following distribution of number of children. Find the average number of children per couple. Justify the use of specific average. Number of children 0 1 2 3 4 5 Number of couples 8 19 28 5 0 2 46. From the following data regarding number of children per couple for 8 couples, find the average number of children. Justify the use of specific average. No. of children: 4, 3, 0, 5, 2, 1, 2, 1. 47. The weights of three apples are 182, 147 and 176 gms. Find the average weight. Justify the use of specific average.

4 48. In 2010, price of sugar increased by 10%. In 2011, it increased by 20%. Find the average increase in price. Justify the use of specific average. 49. A slide is one meter long. An insect climbed up the slide at a speed of 0.1 meter per minute and it climbed down at a speed of 0.5 meter per minute. Find its average speed. Justify the use of specific average. 50. A society for promotion for studies in mathematics decides to award scholarships to the top 1% students in the Mathematics examination. If the percentage marks scored by the students in the examination are as follows, find (a) the number of students who would receive the scholarship and (b) the minimum marks required for the award. Marks 0-40 40-60 60-80 80-90 90-95 95-100 100 # students 218 423 178 43 12 8 2

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