MCQ Bank
Last year a small statistical consulting company paid each of its five statistical
clerks $22,000, two statistical analysts $50,000 each, and the senior
statistician/owner $270,000. The number of employees earning less than
the mean salary is:
- A) 6
- B) 5
- C) 7
- D) 4
………. Graph is a graph in which points are plotted and joins them with a line.
- A) Sector
- B) picture
- C) Line
- D) column and Bar
Frequency Distributions involve
- A) Histograms
- B) Polygons
- C) All of these
- D) Tables
Which of the following is true?
- A) Arithmetic Mean is based on all and median on the middle value.
- B) Arithmetic Mean is based on all and Mode is on the middle values.
- C) None of these.
- D) Median based on most frequent value and mode on middle value.
In an ordered array of data having even number of values, median is the . . .
- A) average of 4 middle values.
- B) difference of 2 middle values.
- C) Sum of 2 middle values.
- D) average of 2 middle values.
Geometric mean of 130, 140, 160 is -------------
- A) 145.7
- B) 142.8
- C) 130.5
- D) 135.5
Under which of the following conditions for three terms a, b, c , their all central tendencies (mean, median & mode) are equal
- A) a = b = c
- B) a > b but b < c
- C) a < b < c
- D) a > b > c
The formula for finding the geometric mean of the data $$(X_1 ,X_2 ,X_3 ,...,X_n )$$ is given by . . . . . . .
- A) $$\bar X = (X_1 + X_2 + X_3 + ... + X_n )^{1/n}$$
- B) $$\bar X = (X_1 \times X_2 \times X_3 \times ... \times X_n )^n$$
- C) $$\bar X = \frac{{X_1 \times X_2 \times X_3 \times ... \times X_n }}{n}$$
- D) $$\bar X = (X_1 \times X_2 \times X_3 \times ... \times X_n )^{1/n}$$
Which of the following reveals the weakest fact.
- A) The measure of central tendency measures the distance of values from means
- B) c) The measure of central tendency measures the value which has tendency to lie in the central part of the data.
- C) b) The measure of central tendency measures that value in tha data which occurs in the data most frequent times.
- D) a) The measure of central tendency measures that value which depends only on the extreme values
A data in which we study about sex is called ...
- A) Quantitative
- B) Chronological
- C) Geographical
- D) Qualitative
For a negatively skewed distribution, which of the following is true?
- A) Mean > Median > Mode
- B) Mean < Median < Mode
- C) Mean = Median = Mode
- D) Mean > Mode > Median
In sector graph a ___________ is divided into different sectors.
- A) circle
- B) Rectangle
- C) none of these
- D) Sphere
The statement
"Median does not get affected by extreme values or outliers in the data"
is . . .
- A) True
- B) False
- C)
- D)
……………….. use the division of a circle into different sectors.
- A) Sector
- B) picture
- C) Line
- D) column and Bar
In a stem-and-leaf display of a decimal number, what does the "leaf" represent?
- A) The units place
- B) The middle digit
- C) The sum of all digits
- D) The tens place
The formula for class width =
- A) Median /no of classes
- B) Range / no of classes
- C) Mean / no of classes
- D) Mode / no of classes
Frequency polygon is a . . . . . obtained from a frequency distribution.
- A) Pareto Chart
- B) Bar Chart
- C) None of these
- D) A line graph
The formula for mean is
- A) The sum of values/total no of values
- B) none of these
- C) The sum of value
- D) The sum of values /2
If sign of 'r ' is negative then it indicates
- A) (b) Indirect relationship between X & Y
- B) (d) b or c
- C) (c ) X & Y equal
- D) (a) Direct relationship between X & Y
The relationship between height and educational qualification
- A) The height is dependent and education is independent variable
- B) There is direct relationship between the two
- C) The height is independent and education is dependent variable
- D) There is inverse relationship between the two