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Calculate the arithmetic mean from the following given data using assumed mean method:

xi 10 20 30 40
fi 2 3 4 1

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Important Questions on Statistics

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The mean and the median of the following ten numbers in increasing order 10, 22, 26, 29, 34, x, 42, 67, 70, y are 42 and 35 respectively, then yx is equal to:
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The mean of a data set comprising of 16 observations is 16. If one of the observation value 16 is deleted and three new observations valued 3, 4 and 5 are added to the data, then the mean of the resultant data is

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The mean of n items is X¯. If the first is increased by 1, second by 2 and so on, then the new mean is
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The arithmetic mean of a set of observation is X¯. If each observation is divided by α and increased by 10, then the mean of the new series is
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The average incomes of the people in two villages are P and Q, respectively. Assume that PQ. A person moves from the first village to the second village. The new average incomes are P' and Q', respectively. Which of the following is not possible?
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If for some xR, the frequency distribution of the marks obtained by 20 students in a test is:

Marks 2 3 5 7
Frequency distribution x+12 2x-5 x2-3x x

Then the mean of the marks is :

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In a set of 2n distinct observations, each of the observation below the median of all the observations is increased by 5 and each of the remaining observations is decreased by 3. Then, the mean of the new set of observations :
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The average age of 20 students in a class is 15 years. If the teacher's age is included, the average increases by one. What is the teacher's age?
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If the sum of the deviations of 50 observations from 30 is 50, then the mean of these observations is :
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The mean age of 25 teachers in a school is 40 years. A teacher retires at the age of 60 years and a new teacher is appointed in his place. If the mean age of the teachers in this school now is 39 years, then the age (in years) of the newly appointed teacher is
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A 100 mark examination was administered to a class of 50 students. Despite only integer marks being given, the average score of the class was 47.5 . Then, the maximum number of students who could get marks more than the class average is
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The arithmetic mean of C0n, C1, C2nn, Cnn is
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If the mean of a set of observations x1,x2,,x10 is 20, then the mean of x1+4,x2+8,x3+12 ,x10+40 is
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If both the mean and the standard deviation of 50 observations x1, x2, , x50 are equal to 16, then the mean of x1-42, x2-42, ,x50-42 is
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Ram obtained 60 and 85 in the first two unit tests. The minimum marks he should get in the third test to have an average of atleast 55 marks is
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The average weight of a class of 14 students is 42 kg. On including the teacher the average increases by 400 g, then weight of teacher is
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The mean age of 25 teachers in a school is 40 years. A teacher retires at the age of 60 years and a new teacher is appointed in his place. If the mean age of the teachers in this school now is 39 years, then the age (in years) of the newly appointed teacher is
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Let n3. A list of numbers x1, x2,..,xn has mean μ and standard deviation σ. A new list of numbers y1, y2,..,yn is made as follows: y1=x1+x22,y2=x1+x22 and yj=xj for j=3, 4,,n. The mean and the standard deviation of the new list are μ^ and σ^. Then which of the following is necessarily true?
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If the mean of a set of observations x1, x2, x10 is 20 , then the mean of x1+4, x2+8, x3+12, x10+40 is
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A factory is operating in two shifts, day and night, with 70 and 30 workers, respectively.If per day mean wage of the day shift workers is, 54 and per day mean wage of all the workers is 60, then per day mean wage of the night shift workers (in ) is :