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April 2008 5-a-day

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April 2008

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st April 2008Data on 200 students' exam scores is in a spreadsheet. Give one advantage of using a spreadsheet rather than calculating the mean and range by hand.
  2. 2nd April 2008Which stage of the statistical enquiry cycle comes immediately after collecting the data?
  3. 3rd April 2008A student uses figures from a government website for her project. Is this primary or secondary data?
  4. 4th April 2008Find the median of: 3, 5, 8, 10.
  5. 5th April 2008Two 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.
  6. 6th April 2008Using two fair six-sided dice added together, find P(total is 7).
  7. 7th April 2008Two 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?
  8. 8th April 2008A time series graph generally slopes upward from left to right over several years. What is this called?
  9. 9th April 2008Out 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.
  10. 10th April 2008In a survey of 40 students, 25 like Maths. Of those 25, 18 also like Science. Find P(likes Science given likes Maths).
  11. 11th April 2008A bar chart's vertical axis runs from 0 to 10 in equal steps of 2. Is this axis likely to be misleading?
  12. 12th April 2008The 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.
  13. 13th April 2008Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  14. 14th April 2008Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  15. 15th April 2008Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  16. 16th April 2008A 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.
  17. 17th April 2008Box 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?
  18. 18th April 2008A data set of test scores out of 100 is: 55, 60, 58, 62, 59, -10. Which value must be an error, and why?
  19. 19th April 2008A country of population 2,000,000 records 3,000 deaths in a year. Find the crude death rate per 100,000 people.
  20. 20th April 2008A 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.
  21. 21st April 2008A table shows number of siblings: 0 (freq 4), 1 (freq 10), 2 (freq 4), 3 (freq 2). Find the mode.
  22. 22nd April 2008Shop 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?
  23. 23rd April 2008The 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.
  24. 24th April 2008A fair six-sided dice is rolled. What is P(rolling a 5)?
  25. 25th April 2008A spinner is spun 80 times and lands on blue 20 times. Estimate the probability of landing on blue.
  26. 26th April 2008Three branches from a single point are labelled 0.4, 0.35 and x. Find x.
  27. 27th April 2008Country 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?
  28. 28th April 2008A shop's till receipts have mode 5 pounds, median 8 pounds, mean 15 pounds. State the type of skew and give a reason.
  29. 29th April 2008A 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.
  30. 30th April 2008Find the range of 22, 9, 31, 14, 6, 27.

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