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August 1998 5-a-day

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August 1998

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  1. 1st August 1998The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  2. 2nd August 1998A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  3. 3rd August 1998A 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?
  4. 4th August 1998On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  5. 5th August 1998Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  6. 6th August 1998In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  7. 7th August 1998Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  8. 8th August 1998A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  9. 9th August 1998Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  10. 10th August 1998Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  11. 11th August 1998A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  12. 12th August 1998Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  13. 13th August 1998What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  14. 14th August 1998A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
  15. 15th August 1998In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
  16. 16th August 1998A 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).
  17. 17th August 1998A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
  18. 18th August 1998The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  19. 19th August 1998Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  20. 20th August 1998A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  21. 21st August 1998A 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).
  22. 22nd August 1998State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  23. 23rd August 1998Box 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?
  24. 24th August 1998A shop records daily sales in pounds: 340, 355, 360, 348, 2, 352. Which value looks like a data entry error?
  25. 25th August 1998A town of population 10,000 records 20 births in a year. Find the crude birth rate per 1000 people.
  26. 26th August 1998A 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.
  27. 27th August 1998Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the median number of siblings.
  28. 28th August 1998Data set X has a range of 12 and data set Y has a range of 5. Which data set is more consistent?
  29. 29th August 1998An index number is 140 with a base value of 20. Find this year's value.
  30. 30th August 1998A bag has 4 yellow and 6 white balls. What is P(picking a yellow ball)?
  31. 31st August 1998A dice is rolled 120 times and shows a 6 on 15 of those rolls. Find the relative frequency of rolling a 6.

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