Past paper Questions

Measure of Central Tendency

Q1 An aptitude test was given to 80 students of an institute. Calculate the mean and the standard
deviation. What conclusion about the variability in data would you draw?
Score Frequency
0-4 1
5-9 3
10-14 8
15-19 9
20-24 9
25-29 23
30-34 13
35-39 7
40-44 4
45-49 2
50-54 1

Q2 The number of cheque cashed each day at the 5 branches of the bank of DAS during the past month had the
following frequency distribution
Classes Frequency
0-199 10
200-399 13
400-599 17
600-799 42
800-999 18
Estimate mean, median mode and S.D

Q3 Two companies reported net profit (percent of sale) for the last 5 years as following. A-05
Company A: 4 4.1 4.3 4 4.1
Company B: 7.3 -3.7 8.4 -2.5 11
1. Compare the average profit performance for each company
2. What does comparison of the averages not disclose about the performances of the companies.

Q4 For the purpose of performance evaluation and quota adjustment, Toyota monitored the auto asles of his 40 S-06
sales people over 1 month periods they sold the following number of cars.
7 8 5 10 9 10 5 12 8 9
10 11 6 5 10 11 10 5 9 13
8 12 8 8 10 15 7 6 8 8
5 6 9 7 14 8 7 5 5 14

1. Construct a frequency distribution, make your intervals at least two cars wide
2. Construct %age ogive and %age polygon.
3. Calculate mean, median, mode, variance, S.D, Q3 and D9
Q5 Draw a histogram illustrating the following data S-08
Age 20-24 25-29 30-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-64 65-70
F 9 12 26 22 20 15 14 11

Q6 Calculate the mean and standard deviation for the following distribution of lengths of 200 metal bars. S-08
X 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
F 4 8 23 35 62 44 18 4 1 1
Q7 For the following frequency distribution A-08
 1. Which number item represent the median A-07
2. Which class conatins the median
3. Use appropriate formulat to estimate the median for the data.
Class 10- 20- 30- 40- 50- 60- 70- 80- 90- 100 or
19.5 29.5 39.5 49.5 59.5 69.5 79.5 89.5 99.5 over
F 8 15 23 37 46 52 84 97 16 5

Q8 Two candidates X and Y at the B.A (Honors) examination obtained the following marks in 10 papers. S-07
Which candidate showed a more consistent performance?
Paper 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
X 58 49 76 80 47 72 61 59 77 48
Y 39 38 86 72 75 69 57 49 83 66

Q9 A.T Cline the mine superintendent of the Grover Coal Co. has recorded the amount of time per work shift
that section crew # 3 shuts down its machinery for on the spot adjustment, repairs and moving. Here are the
recorded for the crew’s last 35 shifts.
60 72 126 110 91 115 112
80 66 101 75 93 129 105
113 121 93 87 119 111 97
102 119 114 107 113 119 100
110 99 139 108 128 84 99
1. Arrange the data in any array from highest to lowest
2. Construct a relative frequency distribution with 10 min intervals.

Q10 The following data represent weights of game fish caught on the charter boat slick drifter A-09
Classes 0-24.9 25-49.9 50-74.5 75-99.9 100-124.9
F 5 13 16 8 6

1. Compute the mean for these data

2. Estimate the median weight of the fish caught.

Q11 There are a number of possible meanures of sales performance, including how consistent a sales person is in S-10
meeting established sales goals. The data that follow represent the percentage of goad met by each of three
sales people over the last 5 years.
Petricia 88 68 89 92 103
John 76 88 90 86 79
Frank 104 88 118 88 123
Which sales person is more consistent?

Q12 An aptitude test was given to 80 students of a college, the mean and the standard deviation S-01
Scores 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54
F 1 3 8 9 9 23 13 7 4 2 1

Q13 A student obtained the following marks at a certain examination. Find the mean marks of subjects a-06
Subjects English Urdu Mathematics Science History
Marks 73 82 80 67 70

Q14 The length of life of 220 incandescent 60 watt lamps was obtained and yielded the frequency distribution
shown in the table given below
Classe 500- 600- 700- 800- 900- 1000- 1100- 1200- 1300- 1400-
s 599 699 799 899 999 1099 1199 1299 1399 1499
F 3 7 14 28 64 57 23 13 7 4
Find the means length of life
 Find the standard deviation
Construct a histogram of these data using a vertical scale for relative frequency.

Q15 A movie theatre owner wanted to become more effective in his operations by showing that appealed to A-99
broad range of ages. To help him make a decision as to what type of owner should lease, a researcher
recorded the ages of the first 25 moviegoers attend Comedy, a fictional drama and a notification
documentary. The following data were obtained.
Age Comedy Drama Documentary
61-75 1 3 8
46-60 1 5 6
31-45 4 9 5
16-30 12 5 4
1-15 7 3 2

Q16 Compute mean deviation from median for the following frequency distribution of the maximum loads in A-06
short tons supported by cable produced by a company.
Loads (tons) 9.3-9.7 9.8-10.2 10.3-10.7 10.8-11.2 11.3-11.7
F 15 26 33 19 7

Q17 Calculate the variance and standard deviation from the following data
45,32,37,46,39,36,41,48,36

Q18 The data processor manager purchased remoter terminal processing time to run special jobs at two different
computer utilities. She wishes to sign a long term contract with the firm whole computer causes the least
delay on the average. The no. of minutes of delayed processing per week were obtained trail periods with
each firm and are provided below.
Compu 210 15 47 93 104
Quick
Dial-a- 18 341 523 25 19 293 115 203
pute

Assuming that trial experience is representative of future performance, which firm should receive the
business? Substantiate your answer with appropriate calculations.
Q19 The Nebraska department of argirculture has these data representing weekly growth (in inches) on A-11
samples of newly planted spring corn:
0.4 1.9 1.5 0.9 0.3 1.6 0.4 1.5 1.2 0.8
0.9 0.7 0.9 0.7 0.9 1.5 0.5 1.5 1.7 1.8
1. Arrange the data in an array from highest to lowest
2. Construct a relative frequency distribution using intervals of 0.25
3. Construct an ogive that will help you determine what proportion of the corn grew at more than 1.0
inch a week
ii New cars sold in December at eight Food dealers within 50 miles of Canton, Ohio, can be described by this
data set:
200,156,231,222,96,289,126,308
Compute the range, inter-quartile range and standard deviation of these data .
Which of the three measures you have computed in part (a) best describe the variability of the data.