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प्रश्न
Classify the given data as primary or secondary data.
In our day to day life, we can collect the following data.
1. Number of females per 1000 males in various states of our country
2. Weights of students of our class
3. Production of wheat in the last 10 years in our country
4. Number of plants in our locality
5. Rainfall in our city in the last 10 years
उत्तर
The information which is collected by the investigator himself with a definite objective in his mind is called as primary data whereas when the information is gathered from a source which already had the information stored, it is called as secondary data. It can be observed that the data in 1, 3, and 5 is secondary data and the data in 2 and 4 is primary data.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Give five examples of data that you can collect from day to day life.
The ages of ten students of a group are given below. The ages have been recorded in years
and months:
8 – 6, 9 – 0, 8 – 4, 9 – 3, 7 – 8, 8 – 11,8 – 7, 9 – 2, 7 – 10, 8 – 8
(i) What is the lowest age?
(ii) What is the highest age?
(iii) Determine the range?
The monthly pocket money of six friends is given below: Rs. 45, Rs. 30, Rs. 40, Rs. 50, Rs.
25, Rs. 45.
(i) What is the highest pocket money?
(ii) What is the lowest pocket money?
(iii) What is the range?
(iv) Arrange the amounts of pocket money in ascending order.
The final marks in mathematics of 30 students are as follows:
53, 61, 48, 60, 78, 68, 55, 100,67,90
75,88,77,37,84,58,60,48,62,56
44, 58, 52, 64, 98, 59, 70, 39, 50, 60
(i) Arrange these marks in the ascending order, 30 to 39 one group, 40 to 49 second group etc.
Now answer the following:
(ii) What is the highest score?
(iii) What is the lowest score?
(iv) What is the range?
(v) If 40 is the pass mark how many have failed?
(vi) How many have scored 75 or more?
(vii) Which observations between 50 and 60 have not actually appeared?
(viii) How many have scored less than 50?
The weights of new born babies (in kg) in a hospital on a particular day are as follows:
2.3, 2.2, 2.1, 2.7, 2.6, 3.0, 2.5, 2.9, 2.8, 3.1, 2.5, 2.8, 2.7, 2.9, 2.4
(i) Rearrange the weights in descending order.
(ii) Determine the highest weight.
(iii) Determine the lowest weight.
(iv) Determine the range.
(v) How many babies were born on that day?
(vi) How many babies weigh below 2.5 kg?
(vii) How many babies weigh more than 2.8 kg?
(viii) How many babies weigh 2.8 kg?
The class size of a distribution is 25 and the first class-interval is 200-224. There are seven
class-intervals.
(i) Write the class-intervals.
(ii) Write the class-marks of each interval.
Classify following information as primary or secondary data.
The information of heights of students was gathered from school records and sent to the head office, as it was to be sent urgently.
Classify following information as primary or secondary data.
In the village Nandpur, the information collected from every house regarding students not attending school.
Which of the following data is not primary?
The range of the data: 25, 18, 20, 22, 16, 6, 17, 15, 12, 30, 32, 10, 19, 8, 11, 20 is ______.
