Is it true to say that the mean, mode and median of grouped data will always be different? Justify your answer.
The median of an ungrouped data and the median calculated when the same data is grouped are always the same. Do you think that this is a correct statement? Give reason.
In any situation that has only two possible outcomes, each outcome will have probability 1/2 . True or false? Why?
Is it correct to say that an ogive is a graphical representation of a frequency distribution? Give reason.
The mean of ungrouped data and the mean calculated when the same data is grouped are always the same. Do you agree with this statement? Give reason for your answer.
A school has five houses A, B, C, D and E. A class has 23 students, 4 from house A, 8 from house B, 5 from house C, 2 from house D and rest from house E. A single student is selected at random to be the class monitor. The probability that the selected student is not from A, B and C is
(A) 4/23 (B)6/23(C)8/23 (D)17/23
One ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbered 1 to 40. The probability that the selected ticket has a number which is a multiple of 5 is
(A) 1/5 (B)3/5 (C)4/5 (D)1/3
A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 0.08. If 6000 tickets are sold, how many tickets has she bought?
(A) 40 (B) 240 (C) 480 (D) 750
The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in the lot is
(A) 7 (B) 14 (C) 21 (D) 28