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October 2004 5-a-day

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October 2004

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  1. 1st October 2004Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  2. 2nd October 2004Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  3. 3rd October 2004Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  4. 4th October 2004The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  5. 5th October 2004A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  6. 6th October 2004A 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?
  7. 7th October 2004On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  8. 8th October 2004Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  9. 9th October 2004In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  10. 10th October 2004Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  11. 11th October 2004A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  12. 12th October 2004Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  13. 13th October 2004Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  14. 14th October 2004A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  15. 15th October 2004Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  16. 16th October 2004What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  17. 17th October 2004A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
  18. 18th October 2004In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
  19. 19th October 2004A 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).
  20. 20th October 2004A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
  21. 21st October 2004The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  22. 22nd October 2004Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  23. 23rd October 2004A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  24. 24th October 2004A 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).
  25. 25th October 2004State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  26. 26th October 2004Box 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?
  27. 27th October 2004A shop records daily sales in pounds: 340, 355, 360, 348, 2, 352. Which value looks like a data entry error?
  28. 28th October 2004A town of population 10,000 records 20 births in a year. Find the crude birth rate per 1000 people.
  29. 29th October 2004A 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.
  30. 30th October 2004Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the median number of siblings.
  31. 31st October 2004Data set X has a range of 12 and data set Y has a range of 5. Which data set is more consistent?

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