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ETHIOPIAN HIGHER EDUCATION ENTRANCE CERTIFICATE MATHEMATICS (ON

STATISTICS) EXAMINATION (from 2004 – 2016E.C)
DIRECTION: Solve each of the following questions and choose the best answer to the
problem from the given alternatives.
2004
1. You are given a data on the age of students, in primary school.

Age 8 10 11 12 13
Number of students 5 15 8 10 2

Which of the following is NOT true about the data?

A. The median is 10.5 C. The mean is 10.5
B. The mode is 10 D. The range is 5
2. The following is a table of simple frequency distribution of a data with variable x.
x 1 3 4 5 7
Frequency 2 5 6 5 2
The standard deviation of the data is equal to:
A. 3 B. 3 C. 2.3 D. 3.6
3. A school has three classrooms for grade 11, namely 11A, 11B, and 11C. The
number of students in these classrooms is 28, 20 and 22, respectively. All the
students took an examination and the average score of students of 11A, 11B and
11C is 60, 70 and 70, respectively. What is the average score in this examination
for all grade 11 students?
A. 66 B. 66.67 C. 65 D. 65.67
2005
4. The mark that students scored in an examination is grouped in class intervals as
shown in the following table.

Class Interval (Mark) 55 - 64 65 -74 75 – 84 85 – 94 95 - 100

Number of students 8 12 20 6 4

What is the median of the mark?

A. 25.0 B. 75.5 C. 77.0 D. 79.5
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5. Among students who took a quiz 15 students scored 6, 20 students scored 7, 10

students scored 8 and 5 students scored 10. What is the average score of
students?
A. 7.8 B. 7.5 C. 7.2 D. 7.0
6. The following table shows a simple frequency distribution of the mark that
students scored in a test.

Score (mark) 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Frequency 5 8 9 14 7 5 3
Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The inter-quartile range of the mark is 3.
B. The 25th percentile of the mark is 5.
C. The 75th percentile of the mark is 7.
D. The top 25% of the students scored greater than or equal to 8.
7. A group of 100 items have a mean of 62. If the mean of 40 of these items is 55,
what is the mean of the remaining items?
A. 69.00 B. 66.67 C. 65.00 D. 64.55
2006
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8. If the list of a measurement is 10,  , 5,  , 5, 10, 20, 15, 20, 5 with mean x , then
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what is the value of  in terms of x ?
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A. 10 x - 90 C. 5 x - 90
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B. 9 x - 90 D. 5 x - 45
9. The following is frequency distribution of a grouped data
Class interval 3-7 8-12 13-17 18-22
Frequency (f) 2 2 10 6
What is the mean and standard deviation of the distribution respectively?
A. 15, 2 5 B. 15, 7.5 C. 12.5, 5 5 D. 12.5, 15
th
10.If Qi, Di and Pi are respectively the i – quartile, decile and percentile of a data
arranged in an increasing order, then which one of the following is necessarily
true?
Q1  Q3
A. Q2 = C. P25 > Q1
2
B. D3 > P25 D. Q2 = mean of the data

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2007

11.The following is set of data representing the average mark of 13 students: 91, 89,
93, 91, 87, 94, 92, 85, 91, 90, 96, 93, 89. Then which one of the following
statements is true about the data?
A. The median is 90.5 C. The range of the mark is 11.
B. The upper quartile is 92. D. The mean is 91.5
2008(Ginbot)

12.The following table shows the frequency distribution of a grouped da in which the
frequency of the first class interval, f1, is missed.
Class Interval (Mark) 3 – 7 8 – 12 13 – 17 18 – 22
Frequency f1 9 4 1
If the mean of the data is 10, what is the frequency f1 of the first class interval?
A. 4 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8
13.Below are the marks of grade 12 students in mathematics out of 100. What is the
variance for the frequency distribution given below?

Marks 20 – 40 40 – 60 60 – 80 80 – 100
Number of students 4 10 4 2
A.107.2 B. 4 C. 304 D. 17.5
14.As shown in the Table below, a measurement is grouped into five class intervals
with the frequency distribution.
Class Interval 45 -55 55 -65 65 -75 75 -85 85 -95
Frequency 26 38 33 16 7

What are the first quartile Q1 and the 75th percentile P75 of the measurement?
A. Q1 = 30.50, P75 = 90.50 C. Q1 = 56.05, P75 = 90.50
B. Q1 = 30.50, P75 = 72.88 D. Q1 = 56.05, P75 = 72.88
2008(Sene)
15.The following is a simple frequency distribution of a data with variable X.

X 3 5 6 7

Frequency 2 5 2 1

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What are the mean ( x ) and variance  2 of the data?
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A. x = 5,  2 = 0.7 C. x = 6,  2 = 0.7
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B. x = 6,  2 = 1.4 D. x = 5,  2 = 1.4
16.There are three children in a room, ages three, four, and five. If a four-year-old
child enters the room then which one of the following is true?
A. mean age will stay the same but the standard deviation will increase.
B. mean age will stay the same but the standard deviation will decrease.
C. mean age and standard deviation will increase.
D. mean age and standard deviation will stay the same.
17.Among ten students who took a test, the list of the marks of eight of the students is:
10, 9, 11, 10, 16, 16, 18, 10. The list misses the marks of two students who scored
equal marks. The median of the marks of all ten students is 13, then the two missed
marks are equal to ______.
A. 12 B. 15 C. 13 D. 14
18.The frequency distribution of the age of chief executive officers (CEO) of
companies in certain region is given in the table below.
Age Number of COEs
25-35 6
35-45 60
45-55 120
55-65 114
(Each class interval does not include its lowest boundary)
Which of the following is true about this frequency distribution?
A. If the frequency of distribution is presented by a pie chart, then the angle for the
modal class is 1500.
B. The age of 75% of the CEOs is greater than or equal to 50.
C. The median age of the CEOs is 52.
D. The age of 50% of the CEOs is greater than or equal to 50.

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2009

19. The following is frequency distribution table of a grouped data with variable x.

X 3 -7 8 – 12 13 – 17 18 – 22
Frequency 4 6 8 2
What are the mean x  and the variance (s ) of the data, respectively?
2

A. x = 12, s2 = 21 C. x = 13, s2 = 9
B. x = 12, s2 = 25 D. x = 13, s2 = 16
20. The expenditure of 100 families is given below.

Expenditure 0–9 10 – 19 20 – 29 30 – 39 40 - 49
No. of families 14 23 f1 21 f2
If the mode of the data is 23.5, what are the values of f1 and f2?
A. f1 = 27, f2 = 15 C. f1 = 25, f2 = 17
B. f1 = 15, f2 = 27 D. f1 = 17, f2 = 25
21. The first group of 10 children has a mean weight of 15.6kg, the second group of
another 10 children has a mean weight of 16kg, and the third group of children has a
mean weight of 20kg. If the mean weight of all the children is 17kg, what is the total
number of children in all of the three groups?
A. 28 B. 29 C. 30 D. 32
2010
22. The time needed to type a sample of 8 business letters in an office is 7, 8, 6, 8, 9, 7, 5,
6 minutes. What are the mean X  and the standard deviation (s) of the data in
minute?
A. X = 7, s = 2 C. X = 8, s = 2
B. X = 8, s = 1.5 D. X = 7, s = 1.5
23.The age distribution of students in a class is given below:

Age 10 -14 15 – 19 20 – 24 25 – 29
Number of students 2 10 6 7
What is the modal value of the distribution?
A. 17.38 B. 18.37 C. 17.83 D. 18.73

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2011
24.Among 2000 students who took a regional exam, the percentile of certain
student`s score is 90. Which of the following is correct about the student`s score?
A. The student`s score is greater than or equal to that of 1800 students.
B. The student have answered 90% of the questions correctly.
C. The student`s score is the same as the top 10% of the scores.
D. The score of the student is as good as that of 90% of the students.
25.The mark of 50 students is given below:

Marks 0 – 10 10 – 20 20 – 30 30 – 40 40 – 50
No. of students 5 8 f1 10 f2

If the median of the data is 26, what are the values of f1 and f2?
A. f1 = 7, f2 = 20 B. f1 = 20, f2 = 7 C. f1 = 12, f2 = 15 D. f1 = 15, f2 = 12
26.There are three children in a room with, ages four, five, and six. If a five-year-old
child enters the room, then which of the following statement is correct?
A. mean age and standard deviation will stay the same.
B. mean age will stay the same but the standard deviation will increase.
C. mean age and standard deviation will increase.
D. mean age will remain the same but the standard deviation will decrease.
2012
27.Which one of the following is discrete variable?
A. Profit earned by a company.
B. Number of road accidents in Ethiopia.
C. The temperature of an object.
D. The speed of a moving object.
28.The frequency distribution table of a grouped data X is given as shown below.
X 10 -14 15 -19 20 – 24 25 – 29
Frequency 2 3 5 4
Which of the following is true about this data?
A. The class mid-point of the 3rd class is 22.5.
B. The lower class limit of the 4th class is 24.5.
C. The upper class boundary of the 3rd class is 24.
D. The class mark of the 2nd class is 17.

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29.What is the 3rd decile (D3) of the data 2, 5, 3, 4, 11, 9, 8, 7, 12, 19?
A. 5.5 B. 4.5 C. 5 D. 4
2013/14
30. Consider the following frequency distribution table.

Value 5 3 7 6 8
Frequency 3 4 5 3 5
What is the sixth decile?
A. 7 B. 7.5 C. 5 D. 6.5
31.Math test scores distribution of 20 students is as given below.

Scores 1 – 5 6 – 10 11 – 15 16 - 20
Frequency 4 6 8 2
What is the standard deviation of the scores?
A. 20 B. 21 C. 4 D. 5
2014/15(Natural)
32.Which of the following is true about the Arithmetic Mean of a given data?
A. It can also be used for qualitative data.
B. It can be obtained even in the absence of some of the values in the data.
C. It is affected by extreme values.
D. There can be two means for a given data.
33.Which of the following is the variance of the data given as: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7?
A. 2.96 B. 2.46 C. 3.70 D. 3.06
34.The following is the distribution of the marks of students obtained in Mathematics
test out of 5.

Range of marks 20-25 26-31 32-37 38-43 44-49

Frequency 15 30 25 20 10

What is the first quartile of the distribution?

A. 26.5 B. 27.5 C. 28 D. 26

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2014/15(Social)
35.Consider the grouped frequency table for students’ weight in a certain school.

Weight (kg) 31-35 36-40 41-45 46-50 51-55

Frequency 3 5 6 7 4

what is the mean weight of the students?

A. 4.5kg B. 43kg C. 43,8kg D. 45.5kg
2016
36.The following table presents the scores of Grade 11 students of a certain school in
a Mathematics Examination.
Score 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100
Number of 10 9 15 12 10 4 2
students

What is the median of the data given in the above table?

A. 60.5 B. 58.5 C. 55.5 D. 50.5

37.Which of the following is true about the Range and Inter-quartile Range of a given
data?
A. Both are measures of variation.
B. Both are considering only the middle 50% of the data.
C. Both are measures of the variability of each item in the data.
D. Both are affected by extreme values in the data.
38.Consider a data set given below:
10, 8, 10, 2, 12, 6, 12, 18, 3, 7, 10, 8, 8
Which one of the following the coefficient of range of the data?
5 4
A. 20 B. C. D. 16
4 5

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39.Which one of the following is a primary data?

A. The data obtained by reading a journal regarding the opinion of the society about
holidays.
B. The data obtained from a chart prepared by Ministry of Health regarding the
spread of HIV/AIDS.
C. The data obtained from a document prepared by the MOE regarding the
achievements of students in National Examination.
D. The data obtained by measuring the weights of students in a certain class.
40. The following data gives the scores of 10 students in a Mathematics examination:
6, 10, 8, 5, 9, 8, 5, 10, 10, 9. Which of the following is the standard deviation of the
given data?
A. 3.6 B. 3.6 C. 5.8 D. 5.8
41.The following table presents the number of traffic accidents in a certain city per
year for five consecutive years from 2019 to 2023.
Year 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Number of accidents 3500 2750 2850 3500 3750
Which of the following number of accidents per year for the given five years?
A. 3270 B. 3250 C. 3210 D. 3200
42.Which one of the following is a quantitative data?
A. Determining the taste of foods in a restaurant.
B. Measuring the heights of each students in the given class.
C. Checking the quality of a new product.
D. Identifying the social status of individuals.

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2017/sept/

43.The following table shows the test scores of students out of 20 in a given class.

Test score 16 12 10 8 7 5
Number of 6 10 4 6 3 1
students

Which one of the following is the mean test score of the students?
A. 13 B. 11 C. 10 D. 12

44.Which of the following statements is true about discrete and continuous variables?
A. Both discrete and continuous variables can take any real values.
B. A continuous variable cannot have negative values but discrete variable takes it.
C. A discrete variable is obtained by counting while a continuous variable is by
measuring
D. Both discrete and continuous variables takes only whole number values.
45.Consider the following data set:

x 20 – 29 30 – 39 40- 49 50 - 59

f 4 8 5 3

Then what is the second quartile?

A. 37 B. 32.5 C. 36 D. 31.5
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