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CHAPTER 2
MEASURE OF DISPERSION
Range
1. Find the range and the coefficient of range for the
following observations.
65, 70, 82, 59, 81, 76, 57, 60, 55, and 50
[Ans.: 32, 0.24]
2. The following table gives the age distribution of a
group of 50 individuals.
Age (in 16- 21- 26- 31-
years) 20 25 30 36
No of 10 15 17 8
Persons
Calculate range and the coefficient of range.
[Ans.: 20 years, 0.385]
Population Standard Deviation
3. Calculate standard deviation of the following marks
obtained by 5 students in a tutorial group: 8, 12, 13, 15,
22
[Ans.: 4.6]
4. Find the S.D. of the following frequency distribution:
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Class- 10 20 30 40
Mark
Frequency 2 3 5 2
[Ans.: 9.55]
5. Find the standard deviation of the following data using:
❖ Direct method.
❖ Assume mean Method.
❖ Deviation From Arithmetic mean
Class 0- 10- 20- 30- 40-
10 20 30 40 50
Frequency 5 10 15 10 5
[Ans.: 11.54]
Coefficient of variation (the relative Measure of S.D)
6. Find the coefficient of variation, if the sum of squares
of the deviations of 10 observations taken from the
mean 50 is 250.
[Ans.: 10%]
7. If the mean is 10 and the coefficient of variation 5,
then what is the standard deviation?
[Ans.: 0.5]
8. To analysis of the monthly wages paid to the workers
in two firms A and B, belonging to the same industry,
gave the following results:
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Firm Firm
A B
No of workers 160 150
Average wage 560 575
Variance of wage 400 625
distribution
Find out:
❖ Which firm pays larger amount as monthly
wages?
❖ In which firm is there greater variability in
individual wages?
9. A batsman Mr. A is more consistent in his last 10
innings as compared to another batsman Mr. B.
Therefore, Mr. A. is also a higher run getter".
Comment.
[Ans.: The given statement is not necessarily true]
10. “After settlement, the average weekly wage in a
factory had increased from Rs 800 to Rs 1200 and the
standard deviation had increased from Rs 100 to Rs
150. After settlement, the wage has become highland
more uniform/' Comment.
[Ans.; The wage has increased, but not more
uniform]
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11. The arithmetic mean and standard deviation of
two Brands of bulbs are given below:
Brand I Brand II
Arithmetic Mean 800 Hours 770 Hours
Standard Deviation 100 Hours 60 Hours
Calculate the coefficient of variation for the two brands.
[Ans.: 12.5%, 7.79%]
12. Show that the coefficient of variation for the first N
natural numbers is
n+ 1
√
given by 3 ( n − 1)
)
Correction the Standard Deviation and Variance
13. Mean and coefficient of standard deviation of l00
items are found by a student as 50 and 0.1. If at the
time of calculations two items are:
wrongly taken as 40 and 50 instead of 60 and 30, find
the correct mean and standard deviation.
[Ans.: 50, 5.39]
14. Define Dispersion. The Mean and the Standard
Deviation of a series of 100 items were, found to be 60
and 10 respectively. While calculating, two items were
wrongly taken as 5 and 45 instead of 30 and 20.
Calculate corrected variance and corrected coefficient
of variation. [Ans.: 92.5, 16.03%]
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Properties of Standard Deviation
15. The following are the various properties of standard
deviation:
Property 1: Sum of the squares of deviations.
The sum of the squares of deviations of a set of
observations from their actual arithmetic mean is the
least.
16. The sum of squares of deviations measured from
mean is the.............
[DU B.Com. (H), 2006 (Corr.)] [Ans.: Least]
Property 2: Standard Deviation of 1st n Natural
Numbers
17. State and prove the formula for computing
standard deviation of first V natural numbers 1, 2, ..., n.
[Ans : n2-1 / 12]
18. Find the standard deviation of 1st10 natural
numbers. [Ans.; 2.87]
Property 3: Effect of change of origin and scale.
What is the effect on standard-deviation, if:
❖ All the items are increased by 5.
❖ All the items are decreased by 5.
❖ All the items are multiplied by 5.
❖ All the items are divided by 5.
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19. What is the effect on standard-deviation, if:
❖ All the items are increased by 5.
❖ All the items are decreased by 5.
❖ All the items are multiplied by
❖ All the items are divided by 5.
20. If 20 is subtracted from every observation in a data
set, then the coefficient of variation of the resulting
data set is 20%. If 40 is added to every observation of
the same data set, then the coefficient of variation of
the resulting set of data is 10%. Find the mean and
standard deviation of the original set of data.
[Ans.: 80 and 12]
Property 4: Combined Standard Deviation
21. For a group of 100 items, mean and standard
deviation are 8 and 10.5 respectively. For 50
observations selected from these 100 observations,
mean and standard deviation are 10 and 2 respectively.
Find mean and standard deviation of remaining 50
observations.
[Ans.: 6, 3]
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22. Find the missing information from the following:
Group Group Group Combined
I II III
Number 50 ? 90 200
Standard 6 7 ? 7.746
Deviation
Mean 113 ? 115 116
[Ans.: 60, 120, 8]
Sample Standard deviation
23. For the Data 29.5 , 49.3 ,30.6 ,28.2 ,26.3 ,33.9 ,29.4 ,
23.5 ,31.6.
Compute the following.
❖ The Sample Range [Ans :25.8]
❖ Sample Variance and Standard Deviation
[Ans: 49.3112 , 7.0222]
24. Consider the Following information with n=4 . ×̅=
76831 s = 180 , Smallest x=76683 ,Largest
x=77048..Determine the Value of Two Middle
observation.
[Ans: 76683 ,76910]
25. Suppose for 15 observation Sample means is 12.58
and Sample standard deviation is .512mm. 16th
observation is 11.8. Using the Q29 find the Sample
mean and standard deviation of all 16 observation
[Ans., 12.53, .532]
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26. If ×̅n and S2n denote the sample mean and the
variance for the sample X1, X2…. Xn and ×̅n+1 and
S2n+1denote these when an additional observation X n+1
is added.
Prove that nS2n+1 = (n – 1) S2n + (n/n+1) (Xn+1–×̅n)2
