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Class 11 Commerce Measures of Central Tendency — practice questions

Explore 13 free Measures of Central Tendency questions in Class 11 Commerce Economics. Open each question or exercise to read its content, reference answers and available explanation.

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A single value that represents the entire data set around which observations cluster is a measure of:Read the answer and worked solution →The arithmetic mean of a set of observations is obtained by dividing the sum of the observations by:Read the answer and worked solution →The value that divides an arranged data set into two equal halves is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The value that occurs most frequently in a data set is the:Read the answer and worked solution →The arithmetic mean of the values 4, 6, 8 and 10 is:Read the answer and worked solution →The median of the data 3, 7, 9, 11, 13 is:Read the answer and worked solution →The mode of the data 2, 4, 4, 5, 7 is:Read the answer and worked solution →A data set that has two modes is described as:Read the answer and worked solution →The median and mode are known as ___ averages because they depend on the position of values:Read the answer and worked solution →Which measure of central tendency is most affected by extreme (very large or small) values?Read the answer and worked solution →The empirical relationship among the three averages is Mode = 3 Median −:Read the answer and worked solution →If the marks of a student are 60, 70 and 80, the arithmetic mean is:Read the answer and worked solution →For finding the most common shoe size sold in a shop, the most suitable average is the:Read the answer and worked solution →

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A single value that represents the entire data set around which observations cluster is a measure of:

  1. skewness
  2. central tendency
  3. correlation
  4. dispersion
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Correct answer: B. central tendency

A measure of central tendency is one representative value of the whole data.

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The arithmetic mean of a set of observations is obtained by dividing the sum of the observations by:

  1. the range
  2. the number of observations
  3. the largest observation
  4. the middle observation
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Correct answer: B. the number of observations

Arithmetic mean = sum of observations / number of observations.

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The value that divides an arranged data set into two equal halves is the:

  1. median
  2. mean
  3. range
  4. mode
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Correct answer: A. median

The median splits ordered data into two equal halves.

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