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GATE 2026 BT – Question 31

Engineering Mathematics · Probability and Statistics: Mean, median, mode, standard deviation, random variables, Poisson, normal and binomial distributions · 1 mark · Numerical answer

The mean of the following series is ______. (rounded off to three decimal places)

0.01, 0.02, 0.03, $\cdots\cdots$, 1

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Correct answer: 0.495 to 0.515

Explanation

The series has 100 terms in arithmetic progression, so the mean is $\frac{0.01 + 1}{2} = 0.505$.