QUESTIONS

Q1. Income of employees in an industrial concern are given below. The total
Income of the 10 employees in the class over rs. 25000 is rs. 300000.
Compute the main income. Every employee belonging to the top 25% of the
earners is required to pay 5% of his income to workers’ relief fund. Estimate
the contribution to this fund.

Income (Rs.) Employers Income(Rs.)

Below 5000 90 15000-20000

5000-10000 150 20000-25000

10000-15000 100 25000 and over

Q2. In an examination of 675 candidates the examiner supplied the following

information :

Marks no. of marks no. of

obtained candidates obtained candidates

less than 10% 7 less than 50% 381

less than 20% 39 less than 60% 545
less than 30% 95 less than 70% 631
less than 40% 201 less than 80% 675

calculate the mode and median of the percentage marks obtained.

Q3. The following is the average amount of dollars each major spends per
passenger on food.

American 7.41 Continental 2.77

United 7.24 US Air 2.68
 Northwest 5.15 American West 2.00
TWA 5.09 South West 0.14
Delta 4.61

What are the mean and median cost per passenger? Which would be the
better figure to use for a new airline in developing its business plan?

Q4. Consider the following distribution :

X 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50

F 12 18 20 25 23

Compute mean,median,mode.

Q5. You are the incharge of rationing in state affected by food shorted.
The following reports arrive from local investigators:
Daily caloric value of food available per adult during current period:

Area Mean Standard Deviation

A 2500 400
B 2000 200

Estimated requirement of an adult is taken at 2800 calories daily and the

absolute minimum is 1350. Comment on the reported figures and determine
which area, in your opinion need more argent attendance.

Q6. A purchasing agent obtained samples of 60 watt bulbs from two companies .
he had the samples tested in his own laboratory for length of life with the
following results:
Length of life ( in hours) samples from
Company A Company B

1700 and under 1900 10 3

1900 “ “ 2100 16 40
2100 “ “ 2300 20 12
2300 “ “ 2500 8 3
2500 “ “ 2700 6 2
 (a) Which company’s bulbs do you think are better in terms of average life ?
(b) If prices of both types are the same , which company’s bulbs would you
buy and why ?

Q7. A company has three establishment E1, E2, and E3 in three cities analysis of the
daily wages pay to employees in three entablishments in given below:

E1 E2 E3
Number of employees 20 25 40
Average daily wages (Rs.) 305 300 340
Standard Deviation(Rs.) 50 40 45

Find the average and the standard deviation of the wages of all the 85
employees in company.

Q8. For a group of 50 male workers , the mean and standard deviation of their
daily wages are Rs.63 and Rs.9 respectively. For a group of 40 female
workers , these are Rs.54 and Rs.6 respectively. Find the standard deviation of
daily wages for the combine group of 90 workers.

Q9. The prices of a tea company shares in Mumbai and Kolkata markets during
tha last 10 months are recorded below :

Month Mumbai Kolkata Month Mumbai Kolkata

January 105 108 June 127 125
February 120 117 July 109 125
March 115 120 August 110 120
April 118 130 September 104 110
May 130 100 October 112 135

Determine the arithmetic mean and standard deviation of prices of shares. In

which market are the share prices stable?
Q10.Particulars regarding the income of two villages are given below:

Village X village Y
Number of employees 600 500
Average income (in Rs.) 1750 1860
S.D. of income (in Rs.) 100 81

i. In which village is the variation in income greater?

ii. What is the combined standard deviation of the village X and village Y put
together?

Q 11. For two firms A and B belonging to same industry. The following details are
available :

Firm A Firm B

Number of employees : 100 200

Average monthly wages : 4800 5100
Standard deviation : 600 540

Find (1) which firm pays out larger amount as wages ?

(2) which firm shows greater variability in the distribution of wages ?
(3) Find every monthly wage and the standard deviation of the wages
of all employees in both the
firms .

Q 12. The performance of two teams is summarized below :

Mean S.D.
Team A 10 2
Team B 15 4
Which is more consistent team ?
Q 13. The following table gives the distribution of daily wages of 500 skilled
workers in a factory:

Daily wages (Rs.) No. of workers

Below 200 10
200-250 25
250-300 145
300-350 220
350-400 70
400 and above 30

(1) Obtain the limits of daily wages of central 50 percent of observed workers.
(2) Calculate Bowley’s coefficient of skewness .

Q 14. The following table gives the length of life ( in hours ) of 400 T.V.picture
tubes:

Length of life No. of Length of life No. of

(in hours) picture tubes (in hours) picture tubes
4000-4200 22 4800-5000 80
4200-4400 38 5000-5200 70
4400-4600 65 5200-5400 50
4600-4800 75
Compute arithmetic mean, mode, standard deviation and coefficient of
skewness.

Q 15. Calculate Karl pearson’s coeffiecient of skewness from the following data :

Marks No.of students Marks No. of students

Above 0 150 above 50 70
“ 10 140 “ 60 30
“ 20 100 “ 70 14
“ 30 10 “ 80 0
“ 40 75
Q 16. Calculate the value of y1 and y2 from the following data and interpret them:

Profit (Rs. Lakhs) : 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60

No. of cos. : 18 20 30 22 10

Q 17. Calculate pearson’s measure of skewness on the basis of mean , mode and
standard deviation, from the following data
Class-interval :14-15 15-16 16-17 17-18 18-19 19-20 20-21 21-22
Frequency : 35 40 48 100 125 87 43 22