Chapter 24 – Measures of Central Tendency Exercise Ex. 24.1

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Question 7Find the mean of first five multiples of 3.Solution 7

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The numbers of children in 10 families of a locality are:

2, 4, 3, 4, 2, 0, 3, 5, 1, 1, 5. Find the mean number of children per family.Solution 10

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The traffic police recorded the speed (in km/hr) of 10 motorists as 47, 53, 49, 60, 39, 42, 55, 57, 52, 48. Later on an error in recording instrument was found. Find the correct average speed of the motorists if the instrument recorded 5 km/hr less in each case.Solution 13

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If M is the mean of x1, x2, x3, x4, x5 and x6 , prove that

(x1 – M) + (x2 – M) + (x3 -M) + (x4 – M) + (x– M) + (x6 – M) = 0Solution 19

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Chapter 24 – Measures of Central Tendency Exercise Ex. 24.2

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Five coins were simultaneously tossed 1000 times and at each toss the number of heads were observed. The number of tosses during which 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 heads were obtained are shown in the table below. Find the mean number of heads per toss.

No. of heads per tossNo. of tosses
0

1

2

3

4

5
38

144

342

287

164

25
Total1000

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 N = 120

Chapter 24 – Measures of Central Tendency Exercise Ex. 24.3

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Question 9Numbers 50, 42, 35, 2x + 10, 2x – 8, 12, 11, 8 are written in descending order and their median is 25, find x.Solution 9

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Question 13The following observations have been arranged in ascending order. If the median of the data is 63, find the value of x.
    29,    32,    48,    50,    x,    x + 2,    72,    78,    84,    95    

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Chapter 24 – Measures of Central Tendency Exercise Ex. 24.4

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Question 4(i)Find the mode of        14,      25,    14,    28,    18,    17,    18,    14,    23,    22,    14,    18Solution 4(i)Arranging the data in an ascending order 14, 14, 14, 14, 17, 18, 18, 18, 22, 23, 25, 28  Here observation 14 is having the highest frequency i.e. 4 in given data. So, mode of given data is 14.  

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Question 5

The demand of different sizes, as obtained by a survey, is given below:

Size38394041424344Total
Number of persons (wearing it):263920151375125


Find the modal shirt size, as observed from the survey.Solution 5


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