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SECTION - B
Answer any six questions. Each question carries
o maks.
9. What are the functions of Statistics ?

10. what are the probrems in constructing rndex Numbers

?

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11. Explain the characteristic of a good average.

12. Sharers of two companies have the following data :

Gompany A Company B

Mean 15 20

Standard Dreviation 5 I
D Which company's share is more stable ?
ii) Which compant's s!,1re is
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16. Ravi obtained 70 a.nd 7.5:r-na

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SECTION - C
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Answer any two questions. Each question caries 8 marks.

17. From the following data compute the arithmetic averages of wages :

Below Below Below Below Below Below Below Below

Wages
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

No. of workers 4 16 40 76 96 112 120 125

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18. Compute
i) Laspeyrc's
ii) Paasche's and
lii) Fishefs index numbers frorn the fdlorving data :
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CornfiIotlity
Prie CXffiitv Price Quantity
A 5 100 6 150
B 4 . -:80'. 5 100,
c .?.;s'. 5 72
D 12''..'';:iti; "i:,, 30,ji' I 33

19. (2xE=16)
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Time: 3 Hours Max. Marks

2. Define Statistics.

3. What is Tabulation ?

4. State the different tYPes ot

5. What is Mean
6. Calculate A.M.

7. Define lndex numbers.

8. What iS the median of : 3, 6,7,8,11, 15 ? (6x1:6)

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9. State the differerrce between Prim#?1frHt$ffiiffib* dH*m}
3 gB{-l**'**314*ft Al'Jpi -i.&fi X t4= *
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11.

12.

13. A man sells 7 horses and 8 andt horses and 6 t5ry6f{l*** sr:i!*{l '!'
Fls. 2,15U-. What is the

14. Among 60 people, 35

in both the Ianguages.
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speakl#iiany.of t@-e languages ? i.4 4 r iiilrr:t5' : i.

16. Compute Quartile dadation.

t
x 0-10 10-20 20-30 30 *5:,ltii;,J&
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SECTION - C

Answer any 2 questions. Each question carries I marks.

17. Compute Laspeyre's, Paasche's, Marshall - Edgeworth, Dorbish - Bowley and

Fishe/s lndex numbers from the following data.

Base Year Gurrent Year

Items
Price Expenditure.. price Expenditure
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A 50 -:i:'. .
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B 40 200
C 100 1$,,::rtr, lrriri;,1,20,,,, 12
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D 20 ..,,,,,.,.,....... 8U""""i'l'l:ii.:i:i,:,,.,:jl ...Ii1 LU ijiii. 100
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18. The following is the marks I b*irtffi students in a college. Find the
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10-19 ,7:

20-29 'l'5
30-39 1 8 ,,.::

4A- 49.,
50-:59-,,."".
60-69
70-79 to
80-89 7
90-99 2

19. Find out S.D.

Productisr in tones: 50 100 125 150 204 250 300

No. of factories : 2 5 7 12 9 5 3
(2x8=16)
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Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 40

PART - A

Answer any six questions from the following. Each question carries 1 mark.

1. What do you mean by statistical investigation ?

2. What do you mean by weighted average ?

3. Calculate Quadile Deviation and its coefficient:Q1 = 70; Qg = 145; N = 12.

4. Define lndex Numbers. Why index numbers are called "Economic Barometers" ?
[cos0 -sinOl
s. Find the determinant of the marrix
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t-r s 71
' B. rt n= |lt -r 2 s I tnen check whether A + Ar is a symmetric matrix.
[r -z -3]
7. Find the roots of the equation 70x - 63 =7x2.
8. lf A= {1,2,3,4,5}andB-{3,4,5,6,7}, thenfind (A-B) u (B-A). (6x1=5)

PART -B
Answer any six questions from the following. Each question carries 3 marks.

9. Explain the important functions of statistics.

10. A Bus runs 20 kms at a speed of 40 km per hour; 10 kms at 30 km per hour
and 30 kms at 60 km per hour. What is the average speed of the Bus ? p.r.o.
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11. Calculate standard deviation and coefficient of variation : N - 50; Ix = -100;

Ix2 = 1000; where x is the deviation from assumed mean 14.5.
12. Explain the problems in the construction of index numbers.

lx-v 2x+21 [-t 5l ,n"n find the values of x, y, z, w.

13. lf = .,g],
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14. Prove that (A u B)' = A'n B'.
15. Find the two numbers whose difference is 2 whose product ts224.

1G. solve the equatian (51$=18)

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PART - C

Answer any two questions from the following. The each question carries 8 marks.

17. Find out mode from the following series.

I$,arks {Below) 5 10 15 2A 25 30 35 40 45
No. of Students 20 44 76 104 124 140 174 184 192

18. Calculate Fisher's ldeal lndex from the following data and show whether it
satisfies both time reversal and factor reversal tests.

2@O 2021
Gommodity
Price Expenditure Price Expenditun
A I BO 10 120
B 10 120 12 96
c 5 40 5 50
D 4 56 3 60
E 2A 100 25 150

19. Solve the system of linear equations; x - y + 2z =7, 3x + 4y -Sz = -5 and

Zx-y +32-12. (2x8=16)
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Time : 3 Hours Max. Marks : 40

SECTION _ A

Answer any 6 questions. Each question carries 1 mark. (6xl=6)

1. Define mean deviation and standard deviation.
2. What is statistical unit ?
3. Write the formulae of standard deviation of the combined series.
4. What is quartile deviation ?
S. A man travels from Cochin to Trivandrum by a car and takes 4 hr to cover
the distance. ln the first hour he maintains a speed of 50 km/h, in the second
hour his speed remains 64 km/hr, in the third 80 kmh, and in the fourth hour
he travels at the speed of 55 km/h. Calculate the average speed of the motor
car.
6. What is meant by tabulation of data ?

7. lf A be the set of all.prime numbers and M = {0, 1 ,2,31find S tr M.

8. What do you mean by an 'AVERAGE' in statistics ?

SECTION - B

Answer any 6 questions. Each question carries 3 marks. (6x3=1Q)

9. Solve the equations using determinants

5x-7y=46
3x+4Y=$
10. Explain properties of a good measure of'dispersion.
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11. Determine the anO llland 3d quaftile vatues using following data.
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12' The mean and standard deviation of 200 items were found
to be 60 and 20
respectively. At the time of calculation, two items were wrongty
taken as S
and 67 instead of 13 and 17. Find correct mean and standard
deviation.
13' in a class of 100 students; 45 students read Physics, 52 students read Chemistry
and 15 students read both the subjects. finO tne number of
students who
study neither physics nor Chemistry.

14. Solve the system of equation using matrixes

5x-6y + 4z=15

2x+y+62=46
15' The distribution of age at the marriage of grooms with
brides of age group 15
to 39 is as follows. Calculate mean Oeviailon

16' List out anQ explain the precautions to be taken in the use of secondary data.

SECTION C
Answer any 2 questions. Each question carries g marks.
(2x8=16)
17. calculate weighted price index from foilowing data.

Materials required
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Calculate Laspyre's, Paasche's and Fisher's indices for the following data.
Also examine which of the above indices satisfy (i) Time reversal test
(ii) factor reversal test.

Commodity Base year Current vear

Prie Otv Price Qtv
A 6.5 500 10.8 560
B 2.8 124 2.9 148
c 4.7 69 8.2 78
D 10.9 38 13.4 24
E 8.6 49 10.8 27

19. ln two factories A and B engaged in the same industry, the average weekly
wages and standard deviations are as follows.

Factory Average weekly SD of wages No. of employees

wase (Rs.)
A 460 50 100
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B 490 40 80
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i) Which factory A or B pays a higher arnount as weekly wages ?
ii) Which factory,shows grealer variability in the distribution of wages ?
r iii) What is the mean and standard deviation of all the workers in the two
factories taken together ?

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Max. Marks : 40
Time : 3 Hours

SECTION . A

Answer anY Six qLlestions Each

question carries 1 mark' (1x6=6)

1. Define quartile deviation

3.Whatismutuallyexclusiveevents?Writeanexample.
what
4. 11 4={3,6,9}, B={3,4;5,6,7,} and'U= t1 '2'g'4'5'6'7'8'9}' then
isAwBod,AnEl
' 5, Write any three limitations of statistics'
231
6. Write the transpose of the matrix I =4
: I
175
7. What is the rank of a matrix?
8. Define Keily's method ,
,.:::i,H?:';nd write its equation'
I

(6x3=18)
Answer any six questions. Each question carries 3 marks'
I -l 1

9. Find the inverse, if it exists, of the matrixl=0 ', ; P.T.O.

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10. Use matrix inverse methods to solve the system

Xr-Xz+X. =-5
2x"-x"=2
Zxr+3x"=-3
11. A city has two daily newspapers, the Senfinel and the iournal. The
foltowing information was obtained from a survey of 100 city residents:
85 people subscribe to the Senfinel, 60 subscribe to the Joumal, and 20
subscribe to both newspapers.
a) How many people subscribe to the Sentinetbut not to the Journa{?
b) How many subscribe to the ioumatbut not to the Sentinef?
c) How many do not subscribe to either paper?
d) Organize this information in a table,
lZ. Calculate'the mean and standard deviation for the following table giving
the age distrtbution at 542 members-
Age in years: 20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90
No.of members: 3 61 lgl 153 14O 51 2

13, Find the determinant of the given matrix

2-3 I
A=2 0 -1
t45
14. For a group of 200 candidates, the mean and standald deviation of
scores were found to be 40 and 15 respectively. Later on it was
discovered that the scores 43 and 35 were misread as 34 and 53
respectively. Find the corrected mean and standard deviation
corresponding to the corrected figures.
15. Let the universal set U be the set of positive integers less than or equal
to 100. Let A be the set of muttiples of 3 in U, and let B be the set of
multiples of 5 in U.
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a) Find n(A n B), n(A a B'), n(B a A'),a,nd n(A,n B,)

b) Draw a venn diagram with circles labeiled A and B, indicating the

numbers of elements in the subsets of part(A).
16. From the following table showing the wage distribution in a certain factory,
determine:
a) The mean wage, :

b) The median wage,

c) The mode wage
Weekly wage No of employees
20-4A I
40-60 12
60-80 2A
80 -100 30
1 00-1 20 +a
12A-14A 35
140-160 18
160-180 7
180-200 5

sEcTIOtrt - c
Answer any TWO questions. Each question canies 8 marks. (2xg=16)
17 - An anqtysis of monthty wages paid to the workers of the firms A and B
belonging to the same industry gives the following results:

Firm A Firm B
No of workers 500 600
Average monthly wage 186 175
Variance of distribution of wages 81 100
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a) Which firm. A o.r B. has the larger wage. bill?

b) ln which firm. A or B, is therb greater variability in individual wages?
c) Calculate the aver-age monthly wage and variance of distribution of
wages of all workers in both firm worked together.
18. Frorn'the following find out the paasche's price index and check for time
reversal and factor reversal test.
Commodity Base year Current year year
Base Current year
price price quantity quantity
A 400 850
B 320 690 .2060
c 72A 1600 10 10

D 720 2100 10 20

19. Solve the following system of equations using Crame/s rule

-4x+2y-92=2

- 3x+4!+Z=5
x-3y+ 2z=8