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February 2000 5-a-day

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February 2000

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  1. 1st February 2000A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  2. 2nd February 2000A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  3. 3rd February 2000A 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.
  4. 4th February 2000A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  5. 5th February 2000A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  6. 6th February 2000What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  7. 7th February 2000Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  8. 8th February 2000Chart 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?
  9. 9th February 2000Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  10. 10th February 2000A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
  11. 11th February 2000What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
  12. 12th February 2000The 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.
  13. 13th February 2000Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  14. 14th February 2000Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  15. 15th February 2000Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  16. 16th February 2000The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  17. 17th February 2000A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  18. 18th February 2000A 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?
  19. 19th February 2000On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  20. 20th February 2000Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  21. 21st February 2000In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  22. 22nd February 2000Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  23. 23rd February 2000A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  24. 24th February 2000Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  25. 25th February 2000Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  26. 26th February 2000A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  27. 27th February 2000Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  28. 28th February 2000What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  29. 29th February 2000A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?

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