Q1 Find the mean and the median of the following set of numbers:
8, 0, 5, 3, 2, 9, 1, 5, 4, 7, 2, 5.
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Q2 Find the mean and the median of all the (positive) factors of 48.
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Q3 The mean weight of 60 students of a class is 52.75 kg. If the mean weight of 35 of them is 54 kg, find the mean weight of the remaining students.
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Q4 The mean age of 18 students of a class is 14.5 years. Two more students of age 15 years and 16 years join the class. What is the new mean age?
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Q5 If the mean of the five observations x + 1, x + 3, x + 5, 2x + 2, 3x + 3 is 14, find the mean of first three observations.
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Q6 The mean height of 36 students of a class is 150.5 cm. Later on, it was detected that the height of one student was wrongly copied as 165 cm instead of 156 cm. Find the correct mean height.
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Q7 The mean of 40 items is 35. Later on, it was discovered that two items were misread as 36 and 29 instead of 63 and 22. Find the correct mean.
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Q8 The following observations have been arranged in ascending order. If the median of the data is 63, find the value of x.
29, 32, 48, 50, x, x + 2, 72, 75, 87, 91.
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Q9 Draw a histogram showing marks obtained by the students of a school in a Mathematics paper carrying 60 marks.
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Q10 In a class of 60 students, the marks obtained in a surprise test were as under:
Represent the above data by a histogram and a frequency polygon.
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Q11 Construct a combined histogram and frequency polygon for the following distribution:
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Q12 The electricity bills (in rupees) of 40 houses in a locality are given below: