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July 1995 5-a-day

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July 1995

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  1. 1st July 1995A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  2. 2nd July 1995A back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram compares two classes' test scores. For stem 7, Class A (left side) has 3 leaves and Class B (right side) has 4 leaves. Which class had more students scoring in the 70s?
  3. 3rd July 1995On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  4. 4th July 1995Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  5. 5th July 1995In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  6. 6th July 1995Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  7. 7th July 1995A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  8. 8th July 1995Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  9. 9th July 1995Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  10. 10th July 1995A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  11. 11th July 1995Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  12. 12th July 1995What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  13. 13th July 1995A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
  14. 14th July 1995In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
  15. 15th July 1995A drawer has 7 black socks and 5 white socks. Two socks are taken without replacement. Find P(second sock is black given the first sock was black).
  16. 16th July 1995A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
  17. 17th July 1995The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  18. 18th July 1995Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  19. 19th July 1995A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  20. 20th July 1995A game has four mutually exclusive outcomes: win, draw, lose, abandoned. P(win) = 0.45, P(draw) = 0.2, P(abandoned) = 0.05. Find P(lose).
  21. 21st July 1995State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  22. 22nd July 1995Box plot A has a median of 50 and box plot B has a median of 42, for the same type of data. What does this tell you about the two data sets?
  23. 23rd July 1995A shop records daily sales in pounds: 340, 355, 360, 348, 2, 352. Which value looks like a data entry error?
  24. 24th July 1995A town of population 10,000 records 20 births in a year. Find the crude birth rate per 1000 people.
  25. 25th July 1995A researcher wants a stratified sample of 30 from a population of 300 split into three regions: North (90 people), South (150 people) and East (60 people). She actually samples 9 from the North, 14 from the South and 7 from the East. Show whether her sample is correctly stratified, stating the correct numbers if not.
  26. 26th July 1995Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the median number of siblings.
  27. 27th July 1995Data set X has a range of 12 and data set Y has a range of 5. Which data set is more consistent?
  28. 28th July 1995An index number is 140 with a base value of 20. Find this year's value.
  29. 29th July 1995A bag has 4 yellow and 6 white balls. What is P(picking a yellow ball)?
  30. 30th July 1995A dice is rolled 120 times and shows a 6 on 15 of those rolls. Find the relative frequency of rolling a 6.
  31. 31st July 1995A bag has 4 green and 6 yellow balls. One ball is drawn, replaced, then a second is drawn. Find P(both yellow).

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