This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Ugc Net > Paper 1 > Research Stats > Measures Of Central Tendency – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Measures Of Central Tendency Quiz 2 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The score or value that tells us the middle of where all the other values in a distribution tend to cluster. A) Mean. B) Median. C) Measure of position. D) Central Tendency. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Central Tendency. 2. In the data set below, which number is an outlier?45, 40, 39, 43, 38, 97, 37 A) 43. B) 97. C) 37. D) 45. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 97. 3. Find the median of:21, 7, 32, 45, 28, 78 A) 78.5. B) 45. C) 32 & 45. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 30. 4. The heights of six students in a class are given below:158cm 172cm 164cm164cm 167cm 159cm However, there were actually seven students in the class, and the mean height in the class was 165 cm. What was the height of the unknown student? A) 171 cm. B) 166 cm. C) 169 cm. D) 164 cm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 171 cm. 5. What does the mean represent in a set of numbers? A) The average number. B) The highest number. C) The number the appears most often. D) The middle number. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The average number. 6. Roger tried to fill up fifteen bottles of water with the same amount of water. The amounts of water in the bottles were measured in ounces. 15.4, 15.5, 16.5, 14.6, 16.2, 14.3, 14.8, 16.6, 15.3, 14.7, 16.9, 17.2, 15, 15.7, 15.8 Which would be the best measure of center for these amounts of water? A) Mode. B) Range. C) Median. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mean. 7. What is the Median?8, 13, 2, 4, 48 A) 8. B) 48. C) 9. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8. 8. Which is not a procedure or step in identifying grouped mean? A) Divide the sum of all the product of frequency and class mark by the total frequency. B) Multiply the frequency by the class mark for each class. Place them in another column. C) Compute for the lower class boundary of the class with the highest frequency. D) Find the midpoint (class mark) of each class . Place them in a column. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compute for the lower class boundary of the class with the highest frequency. 9. Which formula contains no cf (cumulative frequency)? A) Mean of grouped data. B) Median of grouped data. C) Mode of grouped data. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean of grouped data. 10. Calculate the median for this set of data.100, 55, 98, 140, 101, 98, 53, 57, 70 A) 101. B) 100. C) 98. D) 98.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 98. 11. The data {4, 4, 0, 10, 6} represent a random sample of the number of days absent from school for five students at Monta Vista High. Find the mean and the standard deviation of the data. A) The mean is 4.8, and the standard deviation is about 10.56. B) The mean is 5.2, and the stand deviation is about 3.31. C) The mean is 4.8, and the standard deviation is about 3.25. D) The mean is 24, and the standard deviation is about 10.96. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The mean is 4.8, and the standard deviation is about 3.25. 12. Given the set of data below, what would be the most meaningful measure?1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 21 A) Mode. B) Range. C) Median. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 13. What is the mode? A) The value that occurs the most often in a data set. B) The middle number in an ordered set of data. C) The sum of all the numbers in a data set divided by the size. D) The sum of the between the greatest and the least elements, divided by two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The value that occurs the most often in a data set. 14. Which is the number that appears the MOST often? A) Mode. B) Median. C) Range. D) Mean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mode. 15. Paulo got these markers in three tests:72, 80 and 82. He had one more test to sit. He wanted an average of 80 for the four tests. What mark must he get in the fourth test? A) 78. B) 80. C) 84. D) 86. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 86. 16. Find the median:3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 8, 3 A) 5. B) 8. C) 9. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 17. Which is the closest to what most people would call the "average?" A) Mean. B) Range. C) Mode. D) Median. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 18. The number of pages that Carolyn wrote in her journal each day from Monday to Friday is shown below:9, 8, 12, 6, 10What is the median number of pages she wrote per day? A) 6. B) 9. C) 8. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 19. Find the mode.7, 1, 1, 7, 1, 4, 1 A) 3. B) 1. C) 4. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. 20. The scores shown below were received by four science teams named A, B, C, and D in an examination. Each team reported an "average" of 90. Which of the following is true for the measure of central tendency that was used by the team?A:80, 85, 90, 95, 100B:93, 92, 90, 90, 91C:80, 86, 95, 92, 90D:85, 90, 90, 90, 90 A) Team D used mean. B) Team B used median. C) Team A used mean. D) Team C used mode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Team A used mean. 21. , 31, 37, 46, 29, 38What is the interquartile range of the data? A) 8. B) 9. C) 13. D) 21. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 13. 22. What is the mode of the data set:Black Blue RedPink Black BlackGray Green BlueBlue Blue RedYellow Blue Red A) Blue and Black. B) Blue. C) Red. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blue. 23. What is the mode of the following data set ..... 4, 8, 5, 17, 5, 4, 9, 5, 6, 82 A) 9. B) 4. C) 6. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 24. What is the mode of the data below?12, 14, 5, 12, 5, 12, 11 A) 5. B) 12. C) 5 and 12. D) 11.8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 25. The heights of the starting 5 players on a basketball team are 60 inches, 67 inches, 64 inches, and 65 inches. If the mean or balance point of the players is 65, what is the height of the 5th player? A) 70. B) 69. C) 61. D) 68. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 69. 26. What is the definition of the range? A) The average. B) The number that occurs the most. C) The middle number. D) The difference of the largest and smallest numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The difference of the largest and smallest numbers. 27. In the data set below, which measure of center would best describe the data?0, 1, 0, 14, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0 A) The median. B) The mode. C) The mean. D) This answer is impossible to know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The mode. 28. What is the mode of 3, 3, 4, 5, 10? A) 3. B) 4. C) 10. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 29. Gary has taken an aptitude test 8 times and his scores are 96, 98, 98, 105, 36, 87, 95, and 93. Which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for his scores? A) Mode. B) Median. C) Mean. D) Range. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median. 30. What measure of central tendency (mean, median or mode) would be best for the following set of data?0, 89, 92, 97, 99, 100 A) Mode, because it is the one that shows up the most. B) Median, because there is an outlier. The outlier could be incorrect and would influence the mean too much. C) Mean, because there is not an outlier. You should always use the mean. D) There is not a best measure of central tendency for this data. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Median, because there is an outlier. 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