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September 2009 5-a-day

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September 2009

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st September 2009State two things that should be decided during the planning stage of the enquiry cycle.
  2. 2nd September 2009State whether interviewing shoppers face-to-face about their favourite supermarket is primary or secondary data collection.
  3. 3rd September 2009For the ordered data 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 28, find the interquartile range.
  4. 4th September 2009A 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?
  5. 5th September 2009A 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)?
  6. 6th September 2009A class interval is 20-30 with frequency 8. Give the coordinates of the point plotted for this class.
  7. 7th September 2009A time series shows sales peaking every December for five years in a row. What is this repeating pattern called?
  8. 8th September 2009Express a risk of 1/20 as a percentage.
  9. 9th September 2009A box has 4 chocolate and 6 plain biscuits. One biscuit is eaten (it was chocolate), then a second is taken at random. Find P(second is chocolate given first was chocolate).
  10. 10th September 2009A pictogram uses one whole apple symbol to represent 10 apples sold, but one row shows a half apple symbol with no key given for partial symbols. Why could this be misleading?
  11. 11th September 2009Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  12. 12th September 2009A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  13. 13th September 2009Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  14. 14th September 2009A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  15. 15th September 2009A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  16. 16th September 2009A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  17. 17th September 2009A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, 13, 99. Which value is most likely an outlier?
  18. 18th September 2009A city's population grows from 50,000 to 52,000 in one year. Find the percentage rate of change.
  19. 19th September 2009A company has 60 male and 90 female employees (150 total). A stratified sample of 30 employees is taken. How many males should be sampled?
  20. 20th September 2009Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the total number of students.
  21. 21st September 2009Two classes sit the same test. Class P: mean 70, range 10. Class Q: mean 55, range 30. Write a full comparison.
  22. 22nd September 2009An item has an index number of 88 compared to its base year. State whether the value has increased or decreased, and by what percentage.
  23. 23rd September 2009An event has a probability of 0.2 of happening. What is the probability that it does not happen?
  24. 24th September 2009Using the relative frequency from the spinner above, estimate how many times it would land on blue in 300 spins.
  25. 25th September 2009A spinner has P(win) = 0.3. It is spun twice, independently. Find the probability of winning both times.
  26. 26th September 2009On a population pyramid, which axis shows the age groups?
  27. 27th September 2009A box plot shows a long whisker on the left and a short whisker on the right, with the median close to the right of the box. What type of skew does this suggest?
  28. 28th September 2009A survey of 30 shoppers out of 900 in a store found the mean amount spent was 18.50 pounds. What is the best estimate of the mean amount spent by all 900 shoppers?
  29. 29th September 2009Find the median of 8, 3, 15, 3, 10.
  30. 30th September 2009A school of 600 students wants a sample of 30. A teacher decides to only survey students in her own class of 30. State one problem with this method.

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