Exercise 16.

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1. The number of rooms in 25 houses of a locality is as given below:
4, 3, 2, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3,5, 1, 6, 1, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 3,5
(i) Arrange the above data in ascending order.
(ii) Find the range of the data.
(iit) Construct frequency distribution table for the above data.
(io) Find the number of houses which have 4 or more than 4 rooms.
(o) Draw bar graph to represent the above data.

2. The adjoining bar graph shows the 600 Scale: 1 cm = 100 books
number of books sold by a bookstore
during five consecutive years. Read the 500
400
bar graph and answer the following
300
questions:
(i) About how many books were sold in 200
2008, 2009 and 2011 years? 100

ii) In which years were about 475 books

and 225 books sold? Years
3. Iw indred students of 6th and Data Handling 32
olour so as to
colour decide upon what 7th
class were asked
The results are shown in the should be the colour to name their favourite
of their school
Favourite colour
following
ing table: building
Red
Number of students Green Blue Yellow
43
19 Orange
Represent the given data on a bar
55 49 34
Answer the graph.
following questions with the help of the bar
( Which is the most graph:
(i) Which is the least
preferred colour?
preferred colour?
(ii) How many colours are
there in all? What are
4. Sale of English and Hindi books in they?
four consecutive
years is given below:
Years 2008 2009 2010 2011
English 350 400 450 620
Hindi 500 525 600 650
Draw a double bar graph to represent the above data and answer the following
questiorns:
(i) In which yearthe difference in the sale of two language books least?
was

(i)
Can you say that the demand for English books rose faster?
fustifyyouranswer
5. Consider the data collected from
following a survey of a
colony:
Favourite sport Cricket Basket Ball Swimming Hockey Athletics
510 430
Watching 1240 470 250

320 320 250 110

Participating 620
scale.
Draw double bar graph choosing an appropriate
a
the bar graph:
Answer the following questions using
(i) Which sports is most popular?
or participating in sports?
22) Which is more preferred, watching
Exercise 16.2 rrrA
1. Find the mean of the following data:
() 40, 30, 30, 0, 26, 60 (ii) 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15.
2. Find the of the first five whole numbers.
mean
3. A batsman scored the following number of runs in six
innings:
36, 35, 50, 46, 60, 55
Calculate the mean runs scored by him in an inning.
4. The enrolment in a school during six consecutive years was as follows:
1555, 1670, 1750, 2013, 2540, 2825
Find the mean enrolment of the school for this period.
5. The marks (out of 100) obtained by a group of students in a science test are:
85, 76, 90, 85, 39, 48, 56, 95, 81, 75
Find the
i) highest and lowest marks obtained by the students
(i) range of the marks obtained.
(iii) mean marks obtained by the students.
6. The heights of 10 girls were measured in cm and the results are as follows:
135, 150, 139, 128, 151, 132, 146, 149, 143, 141
() What is the height of the tallest girl?
(ii) What is the height of the shortest girl1?
(ii1) What is the mean height of the girls?
(iv) How many girls have heights more than the mean height?
7. If the arithmetic mean of 8, 4, 6, x, 2, 7 is 5, then find the value of x.
8. Find the mean of the following data:
Marks obtained 2 3 4 7 10
Number of students 3 2 6 1 2
Exercise 16.3
1. Find the median of the following data:
() 3, 1, 5, 6, 3, 4, 5 (i) 3, 1, 5, 6, 3, 4, 5,6
Find the mode of the Data Handling 327
() 3, 1, 5, 6, 3, 4,
5,3
following data:
(ii) Marks obtained
15
Number of students 17 20 22 25
17 12 18 13
3, Find the median and
the mode of the data:
13, 16, 12, 14, 19, 12, 14,
4. The sCores in 13, 14
mathematics test (out of 25) of 15 students is as
19, 25, 23, 20, 9, 20, followS:
15, 10, 5, 16, 25, 20, 24, 12, 20
Find the mode and
median of this data. Are
3.The weights (in kg) of 15 students of they same?
a class are:
38, 42, 35, 37, 45, 50, 32, 43,
43, 40, 36, 38, 43, 38, 47
(i) Find the median and mode of this data.
(ii) Is there than one mode?
more
6. The runs scored in a cricket match
by 11 players is as follows:
6, 15, 120, 50, 100, 80, 10, 15, 8, 10, 15
Find the mean, mode and median of this data. Are the three same?
7. Find the mode of the following data:
12, 14, 12, 15, 16, 13, 14, 18, 19, 12, 14, 15, 16, 15, 16, 16, 15, 17, 13, 16, 16, 15,
15, 13, 15, 17, 15, 14, 15, 13, 15, 14.
Exercise 16.4 aans
1. Tell whether the
but not certain: following certain to happen, impossible
is
to happen, can happen
() You are older today than
(ii) Two hundred yesterday. C
people
can sit in
Maruti car.T
a
(ii) A tossed coin will land
heads up.
(iv) A die when tossed shall land
up with 8 on top.I
() India will win the next test
series.Y
(vi) Tomorrow will be a cloudy day.
(vi)The next traffic light seen will be green.
2. A coin is flipped to decide which team starts the game. What is the probability
that your team will start the game? 1/2
3. There are 6 marbles in a box with numbers 1 to 6 marked on them,,
) What is the probability of drawing a marble with number 5? /6
What is the probability of drawing a marble with number 2?
(i) (
4. A die is tossed once. Find the probability of getting
number less than 3. (i) a prime numberl/n
(i) a
(ii) a greater than 2.215
number
and 21 good mangoes. One mango is drawn
5. A box contains 3 defective mangoes
the probability of getting
from the box at random. Find
(ii) a good mango.8
8
) a defective mango well-shuffled pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probabilitu
6. A card is drawn from a
of getting
(i) a
(i)
king yU a card
of spades.
I/q
() a red card(
Objective Type Questions
MENTAL MATHS
1. Fill in the blanks:
(1) The number of times a particular observation occurs in a data is called... of that
observation.
(i) The frequency of 9
is written symbolically as using tally markS.
(111) In a bar graph, the height (or length) of a bar is equal to or proportional to the

frequency of the.
(iv) Double bar graphs help us in comparing two ... at a glance.
value of a statistical data is the ... of the
() The most common representative
data.
(U1) Mode of a data is the observation which occurs ... number of times in the given
data.
(vit) The arithmetic mean of first 10 natural numbers is..
(viii) When a die is rolled, the probability of getting a number more than 5 is ..
(ix) The probability of an.. event is 0.
(x) The probability of a event is 1.
...

observations is
(xi) Median is one of the observations in the data if the number of
. . .

2. State whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F):
(i) Mean is the value of observation that occurs most frequently.
(i) The range of the data -3, 4,-5, 1,-2,0 is - .
(ii) Mode is always one of the numbers in a data.
(iv) There is only one mode for a given data.
(o) Mean is always one of the numbers in a data.
(vi) The data 6, 4, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13, 9 has mean 9.
(vii) Median of the data may may not be from the given data.
or
and
(viii) The measures of central tendency may not ie between the maximum
minimum value of data.
order
(ix) If the extreme observations on both ends of a data arranged in ascending
are removed, then the median gets
affected.
(x) The probability of getting an ace out of a deck of playing cards can be greater
than 1.
Median of 4, 5, 9, 2, 6, 8, 7 is 2.
(xi)
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Choose the correct answer from the given four options (3
to 18):
a central tendency of a data?
3. Which of the following is not
(a) Mean (6) Median (c) Mode (d) Range
the highest and the lowest observations in a data is its
4. The difference between
(b) width (c) range (d) mode
(a) frequency
38, 79, 25, 52, 0, 8, 100 runs in seven innings. The range of the runs
5. A cricketer scored
scored is
(b) 92 (c) 52 (d) 38
(a) 100
of 3, 1, 5, x and 9 is 4, then the value of x is
6. If the mean
(b) 4 (c) 2 (d) 0
a) 6
 mber
of goals
scored by Data Handling 333
4, 1, 3. The median of this
a
football team in
data is a
series of matches are: 3,
(a) 3 (b) 2 5, 0, ly

The median of the first 49 c) 2.5

natural numbers is (d) 1
(a) 24
(b) 25
The mean of three differernt natural (c) 25.5 (d)2 6
ossible number of numbers is 40. If lowest is
(a) 40
remaining two numbers? 19, what could be highest
(b) 71
The mode of the data : 3, 5, 1, 2, 0, (c) 81 (d) 100
2, 3, 5, 0, 2, 1, 6is
(a) 6 (b) 3
(c) 2 (d) 1
11. The probability of a sure event is
(a) 0 (6) (d) 1
12. The probability ot an impossible eventi

(a)-1 (b) 0 ( (d) 1

13. The probability of a newly born baby to be a girl is
(d) 1
(a) 0 (b)
of selecting letter G from the word GIRL is
14. The probability
(a) 1 )
ALPHABET is
vowel from the word
15. The probability of selecting a 3
1 (d) 8
a) (6) number is
composite
probability of getting
a

16. When a die is thrown, the

() (b) a white ball

The probability of drawing
balls and 10 black balls.
white
17. A bag contains 5
from the bag is 10 (d) 1

(b) 15
5 15 in a quiz.
What is the probability
can participate
students
out of 5 it to the
competition?
18. In a school, only 2 makes (d) 20%
picked at r a n d o m (c) 30%
that a student
(6) 40%

(a) 50%

lent
studen of class VII in a day:
ValueBased Questions hours) spent
by a
the time (in Studying Others
shows T.V
table Watching
1. The following
ng Playing 2 2
Sleeping 3
School 1
8 T.V. for 3 hours and
Activity c o r r e c t
to watch
data. Is it
Number of Hours above
72 if
the
head and he pays
to
represent
R5 if gets
he gets
f he of earning
Draw bar graph
gra h o u r s daily? is paid a good way
bar gambling
gamblin
A person
5 . Is
studying just 2 is
tossed.
winning
coin of
fair
2. In a gar a p r o b a b i l i t y

ame,
the
Find
he gets tail.
money?
334 Learning Mathematics-VII

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)-

1. The mean of 6 observations is 17.5. If five of them are 14, 9, 23, 25 and 10, find the sixth
observation.
157.6 and
height of 10 students is 151.8 cm. Two more students of heights
cm
2. The mean
154.4 cm join the group. What is the new mean height?
3. The observations have been arranged in ascending order. If the median of
following
the data is 13, find the value of x:
3, 6, 7, 10, x, x + 4, 19, 20, 25, 28
4. If the mean of the data (given below) is 4.5, then find the median of the data:
5, 7,7, 8, x, 3, 1, 5, 4, 2
5. Find the probability of getting 53 Sunday's in a leap year.