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March 1996 5-a-day

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March 1996

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  1. 1st March 1996A pictogram has a key of 1 symbol = 4 people. A town has 22 people who play chess. How many symbols, including any part-symbol, should be drawn?
  2. 2nd March 1996Using two fair six-sided dice added together, how many ways can you score a total of 7?
  3. 3rd March 1996Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  4. 4th March 1996A company's yearly profits are 10, 12, 11, 15, 14 thousand pounds over five years. Describe the general trend.
  5. 5th March 1996Out of 200 people who ate a certain meal, 10 became ill. What is the risk of becoming ill, as a fraction in its simplest form?
  6. 6th March 1996A class has 12 boys and 8 girls. One student, a girl, leaves the room. A second student is then chosen at random from those remaining. Find P(second student chosen is a girl given the first was a girl).
  7. 7th March 1996A newspaper bar chart showing company profit over 5 years has no vertical axis labels or scale, just bars of different heights. Explain the problem with this.
  8. 8th March 1996Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  9. 9th March 1996What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  10. 10th March 1996Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  11. 11th March 1996A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  12. 12th March 1996A histogram for exam scores has bars of equal width 10 marks, covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, with heights 2, 8, 15, 5. How many students took the exam?
  13. 13th March 1996Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  14. 14th March 1996Give one reason you might choose to keep an outlier in a data set rather than remove it.
  15. 15th March 1996A region records 90 crimes in a population of 45,000. Find the crude crime rate per 1000 people.
  16. 16th March 1996A youth club has 45 members under 13 and 75 members aged 13 to 17 (120 total). A stratified sample of 40 members is needed. How many aged 13 to 17 should be sampled?
  17. 17th March 1996A different table shows test scores out of 5 for 30 students: 1 (freq 3), 2 (freq 5), 3 (freq 9), 4 (freq 8), 5 (freq 5). Find the mean score.
  18. 18th March 1996Class A has a mean test score of 62 and Class B has a mean of 58. Which class did better on average?
  19. 19th March 1996A rent index shows 2019 = 100 and 2024 = 118. Find the actual rent in 2024 if the 2019 rent was 650 pounds.
  20. 20th March 1996A fair coin is flipped once. What is P(heads)?
  21. 21st March 1996Student A rolls a dice 20 times and gets a 6 four times. Student B rolls the same dice 300 times and gets a 6 forty-eight times. Whose relative frequency is a more reliable estimate of the true probability, and what is it?
  22. 22nd March 1996A coin is flipped twice. Find the probability of getting two heads.
  23. 23rd March 1996A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  24. 24th March 1996A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  25. 25th March 1996A garden centre sampled 45 out of 3000 trees and found 40 had survived the winter. Estimate how many of the 3000 trees survived the winter.
  26. 26th March 1996A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  27. 27th March 1996A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  28. 28th March 1996What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  29. 29th March 1996Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  30. 30th March 1996Chart A represents 80 votes and has a 'Green Party' sector of 45 degrees. Chart B represents 150 votes and has a 'Green Party' sector of 30 degrees. Which chart represents more actual Green Party votes?
  31. 31st March 1996Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).

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