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July 2005 5-a-day

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July 2005

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  1. 1st July 2005A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  2. 2nd July 2005A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  3. 3rd July 2005What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  4. 4th July 2005Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  5. 5th July 2005Chart 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?
  6. 6th July 2005Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  7. 7th July 2005A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
  8. 8th July 2005What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
  9. 9th July 2005The 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.
  10. 10th July 2005Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  11. 11th July 2005Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  12. 12th July 2005Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  13. 13th July 2005The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  14. 14th July 2005A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  15. 15th July 2005A 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?
  16. 16th July 2005On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  17. 17th July 2005Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  18. 18th July 2005In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  19. 19th July 2005Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  20. 20th July 2005A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  21. 21st July 2005Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  22. 22nd July 2005Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  23. 23rd July 2005A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  24. 24th July 2005Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  25. 25th July 2005What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  26. 26th July 2005A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
  27. 27th July 2005In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
  28. 28th July 2005A 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).
  29. 29th July 2005A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
  30. 30th July 2005The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  31. 31st July 2005Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.

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