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November 2008 5-a-day

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November 2008

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st November 2008On a pyramid where male bars point left and female bars point right, the bar for females aged 20-24 is longer than the bar for males aged 20-24. What does this tell you?
  2. 2nd November 2008Describe, using the mean and median, how you could tell that a distribution is positively skewed without drawing a graph.
  3. 3rd November 2008A sample of 25 students from a school of 500 found that 5 walk to school. Estimate how many of all 500 students walk to school.
  4. 4th November 2008Find the mean of 4, 7, 9, 12, 18.
  5. 5th November 2008A researcher wants a sample of 50 from a population of 500 using systematic sampling, with a random start of 4. List the first three people selected.
  6. 6th November 2008What is a control group used for?
  7. 7th November 2008A grouped frequency table has intervals of unequal width, 0 <= x < 10 and 10 <= x < 40. Explain why this could make the table misleading when drawing a histogram.
  8. 8th November 2008A pie chart represents 200 people. One sector has an angle of 45 degrees. How many people does it represent?
  9. 9th November 2008Out of 25 pupils, 12 like football, 9 like tennis, and 4 like both. How many like neither sport?
  10. 10th November 2008A scatter graph shows points that generally rise from bottom left to top right. What type of correlation does this show?
  11. 11th November 2008A scatter graph shows that as temperature increases, the number of hot drinks sold decreases. What type of correlation is this?
  12. 12th November 2008For a class, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between shoe size and spelling test score is rs = 0.15. Describe the correlation.
  13. 13th November 2008A company pilots its customer feedback survey on 20 customers before sending it to all 5000 customers. Explain why using only 20 people is still useful.
  14. 14th November 2008A student uses last year's census results for her project instead of running her own survey. Is this primary or secondary data?
  15. 15th November 2008A class of 15 students has a mean score of 30. When combined with another class of 25 students, the combined mean of all 40 students is 40. Find the mean score of the second class.
  16. 16th November 2008A survey of favourite colours gives: Red 6, Blue 9, Green 4, Yellow 5. How many people were surveyed in total?
  17. 17th November 2008A bar chart shows the bar for 'Bus' with height 40 and the bar for 'Walk' with height 25. How many more pupils travel by bus than walk?
  18. 18th November 2008A stem-and-leaf diagram has rows: 0|5 8, 1|2 2 6, 2|1. How many data values are there in total?
  19. 19th November 2008For 80 data values, at what cumulative frequency do you read across to find the lower quartile?
  20. 20th November 2008Two neighbouring regions on a choropleth map are shaded the same colour. What can you conclude about their values?
  21. 21st November 2008Which percentile is the same as the median?
  22. 22nd November 2008A spreadsheet shows the formula =SUM(F1:F5)/COUNT(F1:F5) in cell F6. What statistical measure does this formula calculate?
  23. 23rd November 2008State two things that should be decided during the planning stage of the enquiry cycle.
  24. 24th November 2008State whether interviewing shoppers face-to-face about their favourite supermarket is primary or secondary data collection.
  25. 25th November 2008For the ordered data 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 28, find the interquartile range.
  26. 26th November 2008A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 6 cakes. A row has 1 symbol and a third of a symbol. How many cakes does the row represent?
  27. 27th November 2008A spinner with sections A, B and C is spun alongside a fair coin. How many outcomes are in the sample space, and what is P(getting C and Heads)?
  28. 28th November 2008A class interval is 20-30 with frequency 8. Give the coordinates of the point plotted for this class.
  29. 29th November 2008A time series shows sales peaking every December for five years in a row. What is this repeating pattern called?
  30. 30th November 2008Express a risk of 1/20 as a percentage.

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