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January 1997 5-a-day

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January 1997

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  1. 1st January 1997A 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.
  2. 2nd January 1997A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  3. 3rd January 1997A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  4. 4th January 1997What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  5. 5th January 1997Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  6. 6th January 1997Chart 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?
  7. 7th January 1997Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  8. 8th January 1997A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
  9. 9th January 1997What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
  10. 10th January 1997The Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between hours spent watching TV and test score is rs = -0.4. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  11. 11th January 1997Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  12. 12th January 1997Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  13. 13th January 1997Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  14. 14th January 1997The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  15. 15th January 1997A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  16. 16th January 1997A 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?
  17. 17th January 1997On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  18. 18th January 1997Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  19. 19th January 1997In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  20. 20th January 1997Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  21. 21st January 1997A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  22. 22nd January 1997Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  23. 23rd January 1997Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  24. 24th January 1997A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  25. 25th January 1997Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  26. 26th January 1997What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  27. 27th January 1997A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
  28. 28th January 1997In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
  29. 29th January 1997A 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).
  30. 30th January 1997A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
  31. 31st January 1997The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.

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