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March 2005 5-a-day

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March 2005

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  1. 1st March 2005Which stage of the statistical enquiry cycle comes immediately after collecting the data?
  2. 2nd March 2005A student uses figures from a government website for her project. Is this primary or secondary data?
  3. 3rd March 2005Find the median of: 3, 5, 8, 10.
  4. 4th March 2005Two rows of a pictogram show 4.5 symbols and 3.5 symbols, with a key of 1 symbol = 20 pounds. Work out the combined total for both rows.
  5. 5th March 2005Using two fair six-sided dice added together, find P(total is 7).
  6. 6th March 2005Two frequency polygons are drawn on the same axes for boys' and girls' test scores. What feature of the graphs shows which group generally scored higher?
  7. 7th March 2005A time series graph generally slopes upward from left to right over several years. What is this called?
  8. 8th March 2005Out of 600 drivers who used a phone while driving, 24 had an accident that year, compared with 9 out of 900 drivers who did not use a phone. Calculate the risk of an accident for each group.
  9. 9th March 2005In a survey of 40 students, 25 like Maths. Of those 25, 18 also like Science. Find P(likes Science given likes Maths).
  10. 10th March 2005A bar chart's vertical axis runs from 0 to 10 in equal steps of 2. Is this axis likely to be misleading?
  11. 11th March 2005The table shows ages, in years, of 50 people at a gym: 10-20 (freq 6), 20-30 (freq 18), 30-40 (freq 16), 40-50 (freq 10). Estimate the mean age.
  12. 12th March 2005Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  13. 13th March 2005Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  14. 14th March 2005Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  15. 15th March 2005A histogram of ages has 5 equal-width bars covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50 with heights 3, 7, x, 9, 2, and a total of 35 people. Find x.
  16. 16th March 2005Box plot A has an interquartile range of 8 and box plot B has an interquartile range of 15. What does this tell you about the spread of the middle 50 percent of each data set?
  17. 17th March 2005A data set of test scores out of 100 is: 55, 60, 58, 62, 59, -10. Which value must be an error, and why?
  18. 18th March 2005A country of population 2,000,000 records 3,000 deaths in a year. Find the crude death rate per 100,000 people.
  19. 19th March 2005A college has 120 Maths students, 80 Science students and 100 English students (300 total). A stratified sample of size 60 is needed. Find the number sampled from each subject.
  20. 20th March 2005A table shows number of siblings: 0 (freq 4), 1 (freq 10), 2 (freq 4), 3 (freq 2). Find the mode.
  21. 21st March 2005Shop A's daily sales have an IQR of 40 pounds and Shop B's have an IQR of 15 pounds. Which shop has more variable daily sales?
  22. 22nd March 2005The price of milk was 0.80 pounds in the base year and 0.92 pounds this year. Find the index number for milk this year.
  23. 23rd March 2005A fair six-sided dice is rolled. What is P(rolling a 5)?
  24. 24th March 2005A spinner is spun 80 times and lands on blue 20 times. Estimate the probability of landing on blue.
  25. 25th March 2005Three branches from a single point are labelled 0.4, 0.35 and x. Find x.
  26. 26th March 2005Country A's pyramid has a wide base and narrow top; Country B's has a narrow base and a wide middle/top. Which country most likely has the higher birth rate?
  27. 27th March 2005A shop's till receipts have mode 5 pounds, median 8 pounds, mean 15 pounds. State the type of skew and give a reason.
  28. 28th March 2005A random sample of 50 packets of crisps from a production run of 8000 found 3 were underweight. Estimate how many packets in the whole run are underweight.
  29. 29th March 2005Find the range of 22, 9, 31, 14, 6, 27.
  30. 30th March 2005A gym has 900 members. A sample of 45 is needed using systematic sampling, with a random start of 12. Find the 4th person selected.
  31. 31st March 2005In a medicine trial, half the patients receive the real drug and half receive a dummy pill, and neither the patients nor the doctors know who received which until after results are recorded. What is this type of trial called, and why is it used?

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