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The average of two numbers are 15.5. One number is 13.5, another number is ____________.

The correct answer is

17.5

The sum of the two numbers equals the average multiplied by 2, so the sum is 15.5 × 2 = 31. Since one number is 13.5, the other number is 31 - 13.5 = 17.5.

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Important Questions from Statistics

  1. The mean and variance of five observations are 14 and 13.2 respectively. Three of the five observations are 11, 16 and 20. What are the other two observations ?

  2. A die is thrown 10 times and obtained the following outputs :

    1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 6, 5, 4

     What will be the mode of data so obtained ?  

  3. Consider the following frequency distribution :

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    f4697

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  4. For data -1, 1, 4, 3, 8, 12, 17, 19, 9, 11; if M is the median of first 5 observations and N is the median of last five observations, then what is the value of 4M - N ?

  5. Let P, Q, R represent mean, median and mode. If for some distribution \(5 P=4 Q=\frac{R}{2}\) then what is \(\frac{P+Q}{2 P+0.7 R}\) equal to ?

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