Means - Arithmetic, Geometric, and Harmonic

Covers arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic mean calculations including formulas, relationships, grouped frequency distributions, and applications

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The harmonic mean of $\dfrac { a }{ 1-ab } and \dfrac { a }{ 1+ab }$ is:

  1. $a$
  2. $\dfrac { a }{ 1-{ a }^{ 2 }b^{ 2 } }$
  3. $\dfrac { 1 }{ 1-{ a }^{ 2 }b^{ 2 } }$
  4. $\dfrac { a }{ 1+{ a }^{ 2 }b^{ 2 } }$
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The relation among AM, GM and HM is

  1. $AM\times GM=HM$
  2. $HM=\sqrt{AM\times GM}$
  3. $GM^2=AM\times HM$
  4. $AM^2=GM\times HM$
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$\bar{x} = A + \dfrac{\sum fd}{N}$ is the formula of

  1. Median
  2. Mode
  3. Arithmetic mean
  4. Mean deviation
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Class-intervals 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-50
Frequency   12    11    14    10    13

Find the arithmetic mean for the given grouped frequency distribution.

  1. $\displaystyle 15\frac{1}{6}$
  2. $\displaystyle 25\frac{1}{6}$
  3. $\displaystyle 35\frac{1}{6}$
  4. $\displaystyle 45\frac{1}{6}$
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Below is given the distribution of money (in Rs.) collected by students for flood relief fund. Find mean of money (in Rs.) collected by a student

Money (in Rs.) 0 - 10 10 - 20 20 - 30 30 - 40 40 - 50
No. of students   5    7    5    2    6
  1. Rs.$ 22.80$
  2. Rs.$ 23.80$
  3. Rs. $24.80$
  4. Rs.$ 25.80$
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The measurements (in mm) of the diameters of the head of screws are given below :
Calculate mean diameter of head of a screw.

Diameter (in mm) 33 - 35 36 - 38 39 - 41 42 - 44 45 - 47
No. of screw   10   19   23   21   27
  1. $38.08$ mm
  2. $40.08$ mm
  3. $41.08$ mm
  4. $45.08 $ mm
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the mean marks from the following data:

Marks Number of students
Below 10 5
Below 20 9
Below 30 17
Below 40 29
Below 50 45
Below 60 60
Below 70 70
Below 80 78
Below 90 83
Below 100 85
  1. $37.12$ marks
  2. $41.5$ marks
  3. $44.26$ marks
  4. $48.4$ marks
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A survey was conducted by a group of students as a part of their environment awareness programme, in which they collected the following data regarding the number of plants in 20 houses in a locality. Find the mean number of plants per house.

Number of Plants 0-2 2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 12-14
Number of houses 1 2 1 5 6 2 3

Which method did you use for finding the mean, and why?

  1. $8.2$ plants
  2. $6.5$ plants
  3. $5.7$ plants
  4. None of these
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Record of no. of days of medical leave taken by $ 30$ employees within a year is given below.

No. of days 0 - 10 10 - 20 20 - 30 30 - 40 40 - 50
No. of employees 5 7 11 4 3

Find mean number of days of medical leave taken by an employee in a year.

  1. $29.67$ days
  2. $25.67$ days
  3. $22.67$ days
  4. $20.6$ days
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

To find the concentration of $SO _2$ in the air (in parts, per

million), the data was collected for 30 localities, in a certain city

and is presented below:

Concentration of $SO _2$ (in ppm) Frequency
0.00-0.04 4
0.04-0.08 9
0.08-0.12 9
0.12-0.16 2
0.16-0.20 4
0.20-0.24 2

Find the mean concentrations of $SO _2$ in the air.

  1. $0.099$ ppm
  2. $0.09$ ppm
  3. $0.99$ ppm
  4. $0.0909$ ppm
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The following table gives the per day income of 50 pupils. Find the arithmetic mean of their per day income.

Income/day (Rs) 70-74 74-78 78-82 82-86 86-90
No. of people    8    10      11    17    4

  1. $75.92$
  2. $79.92$
  3. $80.92$
  4. None of these
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Compute the missing frequencies $'f _1'$ and $'f _2'$ in the following data, if the mean is $166\frac {9}{26}$ and the sum of the observation is 52.

Classes Frequency
140-150 5
150-160 $f _1$
160-170 20
170-180 $f _2$
180-190 6
190-200 2
Total 52
  1. $f _1=7, f _2=3$
  2. $f _1=10, f _2=6$
  3. $f _1=9, f _2=8$
  4. None of these
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In a frequency dist. if $\displaystyle d _{i}$ is deviation of variates from a number e and mean = $\displaystyle e+\frac{\Sigma f _{i}d _{i}}{\Sigma f _{i}}$, then e is

  1. Lower limit
  2. Assumed mean
  3. Number of observation
  4. Class interval
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the mean of four observations is $20$ and when a constant  is added to each observation the mean becomes $22$ The value of $c$ is?

  1. $-2$
  2. $2$
  3. $4$
  4. $6$
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

HM of 3 and 5 is

  1. $\displaystyle\dfrac{15}{4}$
  2. $\displaystyle\dfrac{15}{8}$
  3. $\displaystyle\dfrac{3}{4}$
  4. $\displaystyle\dfrac{5}{8}$
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

GM of 4 and 64 is

  1. 32
  2. 8
  3. 16
  4. 24
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The harmonic mean of 20 and 30 is

  1. 25
  2. 28
  3. 26
  4. 24
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the sum of 5 geometric means between $\displaystyle\frac{1}{3}$ and 243, by taking common ratio positive.

  1. 121
  2. 126
  3. 81
  4. 111
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The geometric mean of $10$ observations on a certain variable was calculated as $16.2$. It was later discovered that one of the observations was wrongly recorded as $12.9$; infact it was $21.9$. The correct geometric mean is:

  1. $\left (\dfrac {(16.2)^{9}\times 21.9}{21.9}\right )^{1/10}$
  2. $\left (\dfrac {(16.2)^{10}\times 21.9}{21.9}\right )^{1/10}$
  3. $\left (\dfrac {(16.2)^{10}\times 21.9}{12.9}\right )^{1/10}$
  4. $\left (\dfrac {(16.2)^{11}\times 21.9}{21.9}\right )^{1/11}$
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The harmonic mean of the roots of equation $(5+\sqrt {2})x^{2}-(4+\sqrt {5})x+8+2\sqrt {5}=0$ is

  1. $2$
  2. $4$
  3. $6$
  4. $none\ of\ these$
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The mean of the following frequency distribution is 62.8 and the sum of all the frequencies is 50. Compute the missing frequency $\displaystyle f _{1}$ and $\displaystyle f _{2}$.

Class 0-20 20-40 40-60 60-80 80-100 100-120
Frequency 5 $\displaystyle f _{1}$ 10 $\displaystyle f _{2}$ 7 8
  1. $5, 8$
  2. $6, 12$
  3. $8, 11$
  4. $8, 12$

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