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March 2003 5-a-day

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March 2003

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  1. 1st March 2003A rent index shows 2019 = 100 and 2024 = 118. Find the actual rent in 2024 if the 2019 rent was 650 pounds.
  2. 2nd March 2003A fair coin is flipped once. What is P(heads)?
  3. 3rd March 2003Student 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?
  4. 4th March 2003A coin is flipped twice. Find the probability of getting two heads.
  5. 5th March 2003A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  6. 6th March 2003A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  7. 7th March 2003A 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.
  8. 8th March 2003A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  9. 9th March 2003A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  10. 10th March 2003What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  11. 11th March 2003Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  12. 12th March 2003Chart 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?
  13. 13th March 2003Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  14. 14th March 2003A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
  15. 15th March 2003What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
  16. 16th March 2003The 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.
  17. 17th March 2003Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  18. 18th March 2003Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  19. 19th March 2003Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  20. 20th March 2003The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  21. 21st March 2003A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  22. 22nd March 2003A 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?
  23. 23rd March 2003On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  24. 24th March 2003Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  25. 25th March 2003In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  26. 26th March 2003Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  27. 27th March 2003A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  28. 28th March 2003Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  29. 29th March 2003Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  30. 30th March 2003A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  31. 31st March 2003Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?

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