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March 2002

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  1. 1st March 2002A sector has an angle of 72 degrees in a pie chart representing 50 people in total. How many people does this sector represent?
  2. 2nd March 2002In a Venn diagram, what does the region where two circles overlap represent?
  3. 3rd March 2002A scatter graph shows points that generally fall from top left to bottom right. What type of correlation does this show?
  4. 4th March 2002A study finds a positive correlation between shoe size and reading ability in primary school children. Does having big feet cause better reading?
  5. 5th March 2002A researcher finds rs = 0.99 between a town's number of ice cream vans and its number of sunburn cases, and concludes the vans cause sunburn. Explain why this conclusion may be wrong.
  6. 6th March 2002A tick-box question has the options '0-10', '10-20', '20-30'. What problem would a pilot survey likely identify with this?
  7. 7th March 2002Is 'number of pets owned' discrete or continuous data?
  8. 8th March 2002Group A has 6 items with mean 15. Group B has 9 items with mean 25. Find the combined mean.
  9. 9th March 2002A frequency table for test scores out of 10 shows: score 6 has frequency 5, score 7 has frequency 8, score 8 has frequency x, score 9 has frequency 3, and the total frequency is 25. Find x.
  10. 10th March 2002Two composite bars compare tea and coffee drinkers: Monday has a total of 60 drinks, of which 35 are tea; Tuesday has a total of 72 drinks, of which 40 are tea. On which day was a greater proportion of drinks tea?
  11. 11th March 2002A stem-and-leaf diagram has the row '1 | 4 7 9' with key '1|4 means 14'. What three data values does this row represent?
  12. 12th March 2002Explain why a value read from a cumulative frequency graph, such as the median, is described as an estimate rather than an exact value.
  13. 13th March 2002On a choropleth map shaded from white (lowest) to black (highest), a region is coloured mid-grey. What does this suggest about its value?
  14. 14th March 2002A cumulative frequency graph shows that a value of 18 corresponds to a cumulative frequency of 45 out of 60 total data points. Find the percentile.
  15. 15th March 2002A column of 8 test scores is in cells D2 to D9. Give the formula for the mean score.
  16. 16th March 2002Name the first stage of the statistical enquiry cycle.
  17. 17th March 2002State one advantage secondary data has over primary data for a project on rainfall over the last 50 years.
  18. 18th March 2002A data set has Q1 = 22 and Q3 = 35. State the interquartile range and explain what it measures.
  19. 19th March 2002A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 4 books. A row has 2 and a half symbols. How many books does the row represent?
  20. 20th March 2002Two fair coins are flipped. How many equally likely outcomes are in the sample space?
  21. 21st March 2002A frequency table has classes 0-10, 10-20, 20-30 with frequencies 3, 9, 6. State all three coordinates for the frequency polygon.
  22. 22nd March 2002On a time series graph, what is always plotted on the horizontal axis?
  23. 23rd March 2002Group A has a risk of 0.08 of an event happening; Group B has a risk of 0.02. Find the relative risk of Group A compared with Group B.
  24. 24th March 2002A bag has 3 red, 4 green and 5 blue balls (12 total). One ball is removed at random and is blue. A second ball is then removed. Find P(second ball is red given the first ball was blue).
  25. 25th March 2002A 3D pie chart is used to show market share. Explain why 3D charts can be misleading.
  26. 26th March 2002A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  27. 27th March 2002Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  28. 28th March 2002Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  29. 29th March 2002P(rain) = 0.3 and P(snow) = 0.05 on a given day, and rain and snow are mutually exclusive that day. Find P(rain or snow).
  30. 30th March 2002Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  31. 31st March 2002A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.

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