PSEB Solutions for Class 10 Maths Chapter 14 Statistics Ex 14.1

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PSEB 10th Class Maths Solutions Chapter 14 Statistics Ex 14.1

Question 1.
A survey was conducted by a group of students as a part of their enviroment 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.

Which method did you use for finding the mean, and why?
Solution:
Since, number of plants and houses are small in their values; so we must use direct method

Hence, mean number of plants per house is 8.1.

Question 2.
Consider the following distribution of daily wages of 50 workers of a factory.

Find the mean daily wages of the workers of the factory by using an appropriate method.
Solution:

Question 3.
The following distribution shows the daily pocket allowance of children of a locality. The mean pocket allowance is 18. Find the missing frequency f.

Solution;

Question 4.
Thirty women were examined in a hospital by a doctor and the number of heart beats per minute were recorded and summarised as follows. Find the mean heart beats per minute for these women, choosing a suitable method.

Question 5.
In a retail market, fruit vendors were selling mangoes kept in packing boxes. These boxes contained varying number mangoes. The following was the distribution of mangoes according to the number of boxes.

Find the mean number of mangoes kept in a packing box. Which method of finding the mean did you choose?
Solution:
Since, values of number of mamgoes and number of boxes are large numerically. So, we must use step-deviation method.

Question 6.
The table below shows the daily expenditure on food of 25 households in a locality.

Find the mean daily expenditure on food by a suitable method.

Solution:

Question 7.
To find out the concentration of SO₂ in the air (in parts per million, e., ppm), the data was collected for 30 localities in a certain city and is presented below:

Find the mean concentration of SO₂ in the air.
Solution:

Question 8.
A class teacher has the folloing absentee record of 40 students of a class for the whole term. Find the mean number of days a student was absent.