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Test1 Chapter14 MCQ Full

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Test 1 – Chapter 14: Central Tendency & Dispersion

60 ICAI■style MCQs – Each question carries 1 mark

Measures of Central Tendency


1. The arithmetic mean of 10 numbers is 40. If one number is removed and the new mean becomes 38, what is
(a) 40 (b) 38 (c) 58 (d) 48

2. The mode of a dataset is:


(a) The middlemost value (b) The most frequently occurring value (c) The average of all values (d) The dif

3. If the mean of 5, 8, x, 12, and 15 is 10, find the value of x.


(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 14 (d) 8

4. The median of a set of numbers is:


(a) Sum of all numbers ÷ total numbers (b) Most frequent value (c) Middle value in order (d) Highest - Low

5. The mean of first 5 natural numbers is:


(a) 3 (b) 2.5 (c) 5 (d) 4

6. The mean of 8 numbers is 24. If each number is increased by 2, then the new mean is:
(a) 24 (b) 26 (c) 28 (d) 22

7. If a set of numbers has more than one mode, it is called:


(a) Unimodal (b) Bimodal (c) Multimodal (d) None of these

8. In a positively skewed distribution, the relation between mean, median, and mode is:
(a) Mean > Median > Mode (b) Mean < Median < Mode (c) Mean = Median = Mode (d) None of these

9. If the mode of a dataset is 18 and the median is 20, what is the approximate mean using the empirical formul
(a) 19 (b) 22 (c) 21 (d) 20

10. The sum of deviations of values from their arithmetic mean is always:
(a) Maximum (b) Minimum (c) Zero (d) Cannot be determined

Measures of Dispersion
11. The range of a dataset is:
(a) Q1 - Q3 (b) Largest - Smallest value (c) Mean (d) None of these

12. The variance of a dataset measures:


(a) Average deviation from mean (b) Spread around mean (c) Total sum (d) Square root of standard devi

13. If standard deviation is 4, then variance is:


(a) 2 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 4

14. Standard deviation is:


(a) Square of variance (b) Square root of variance (c) Twice the variance (d) Cube of variance

15. If all values increase by 5, standard deviation:


(a) Remains unchanged (b) Increases by 5 (c) Doubles (d) Becomes zero

16. Which is least affected by extreme values?


(a) Mean (b) Mode (c) Median (d) Range

17. Coefficient of variation is 40%, mean is 50. Find standard deviation.


(a) 20 (b) 25 (c) 30 (d) 40
18. Interquartile range is:
(a) Q3 - Q1 (b) Q3 + Q1 (c) (Q3 + Q1)/2 (d) Q3 - Median

19. Mean deviation is calculated from:


(a) Mean (b) Median (c) Mode (d) Any of the above

20. Higher CV implies:


(a) More consistency (b) Less consistency (c) Same consistency (d) Not determinable

More Conceptual and Application Questions


21. A data set with 10 values has mean = 15. What is the total sum?
(a) 150 (b) 100 (c) 50 (d) 10

22. A student scores 70, 60, 65, and 75 in 4 subjects. What is his average score?
(a) 65 (b) 67.5 (c) 68 (d) 70

23. For a symmetric distribution:


(a) Mean < Median (b) Mean > Mode (c) Mean = Median = Mode (d) Mode = 0

24. The range is 25 and the smallest value is 10. Largest value is:
(a) 35 (b) 25 (c) 15 (d) 10

25. The average of 6 numbers is 8. If one number is removed, new average is 7.5. Find the removed number.
(a) 11 (b) 12 (c) 10 (d) 8

26. Mean of 10 values is 20. One value is wrongly taken as 30 instead of 10. Correct mean is:
(a) 20 (b) 18 (c) 22 (d) 19

27. Which of the following is not a measure of dispersion?


(a) Variance (b) Mode (c) Range (d) Standard deviation

28. If all observations are the same, standard deviation is:


(a) 1 (b) Infinite (c) 0 (d) Mean

29. Which of the following is a relative measure of dispersion?


(a) Standard deviation (b) Mean deviation (c) Coefficient of variation (d) Range

30. For a dataset: Mean = 40, Standard Deviation = 5. CV = ?


(a) 8% (b) 12.5% (c) 10% (d) 20%

31. If Median = 50 and Mode = 40, then Mean = ?


(a) 45 (b) 55 (c) 47.5 (d) 48.33

32. Which measure is best when data has extreme values?


(a) Mean (b) Mode (c) Median (d) Range

33. In which situation is mode the most suitable average?


(a) To find central value in numerical data
(b) To find average income
(c) To find most frequent shoe size sold
(d) To find average rainfall

34. Standard deviation is denoted by:


(a) x■ (b) σ (c) Σ (d) µ

35. If mean of 100 items is 50 and variance is 25, what is standard deviation?
(a) 25 (b) 50 (c) 5 (d) 10

36. Which of the following is a positional average?


(a) Mean (b) Mode (c) Median (d) Standard deviation

37. Mean of 5 numbers is 30. Sum of the numbers is:


(a) 120 (b) 150 (c) 135 (d) 140

38. Which measure gives central value of grouped data?


(a) Mode (b) Mean (c) Median (d) All of these

39. What is the median of 6, 12, 15, 20, 22, 25?


(a) 17.5 (b) 18.5 (c) 20 (d) 19

40. In a class, average marks in Maths is 72, English is 68. Combined average if equal students in both:
(a) 70 (b) 71 (c) 69 (d) 68

41. Mean of 9 numbers is 8. If 3 more numbers (7, 6, 11) are added, new mean is:
(a) 7.5 (b) 8.5 (c) 8 (d) 7.75

42. If all values in a data set are multiplied by 3, the variance:


(a) Becomes 3 times (b) Remains same (c) Becomes 9 times (d) Becomes square root of 3 times

43. The quartile deviation is equal to:


(a) Q3 - Q1 (b) (Q3 - Q1)/2 (c) Q3 + Q1 (d) (Q3 + Q1)/2

44. What is the range of data: 6, 9, 3, 15, 12?


(a) 12 (b) 10 (c) 13 (d) 15

45. Median of an odd number of items is:


(a) Arithmetic mean of two middle items (b) Middle value (c) Most frequent value (d) Highest value

46. Which of these is a measure of dispersion?


(a) Quartile deviation (b) Mode (c) Median (d) Mean

47. Mean of x, x+2, x+4, x+6, x+8 is:


(a) x+4 (b) x+3 (c) x+5 (d) x+2

48. If all items in dataset are negative, standard deviation is:


(a) Positive (b) Negative (c) Zero (d) Cannot be determined

49. The average of first 10 odd numbers is:


(a) 10 (b) 11 (c) 9 (d) 12

50. If two variables have same standard deviation, the one with higher mean has:
(a) Lower CV (b) Higher CV (c) Same CV (d) None of these

51. A distribution with values spread evenly on both sides is:


(a) Skewed (b) Symmetrical (c) Normal (d) Irregular

52. Which of the following is not affected by extreme values?


(a) Mean (b) Median (c) Range (d) Standard deviation

53. If mode = 36, median = 40, then mean = ?


(a) 44 (b) 46 (c) 42 (d) 48
54. A measure that divides data into 100 equal parts:
(a) Decile (b) Percentile (c) Quartile (d) None

55. Which is not a characteristic of good average?


(a) Rigidly defined (b) Easy to calculate (c) Affected by extreme values (d) Based on all items

56. CV is used to:


(a) Compare consistency of data (b) Measure shape of data (c) Test for skewness (d) None

57. Which is always non-negative?


(a) Mean (b) Mode (c) Standard deviation (d) Deviation

58. Average of 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 is:


(a) 30 (b) 28 (c) 35 (d) 32

59. In a normal distribution:


(a) Mean < Median (b) Mean = Median = Mode (c) Mean > Median (d) Mean = Mode > Median

60. If all values in a data set are increased by a constant, variance:


(a) Remains unchanged (b) Increases by that constant (c) Becomes zero (d) Decreases

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