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March 2010 5-a-day

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March 2010

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  1. 1st March 2010The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  2. 2nd March 2010A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  3. 3rd March 2010A 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?
  4. 4th March 2010On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  5. 5th March 2010Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  6. 6th March 2010In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  7. 7th March 2010Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  8. 8th March 2010A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  9. 9th March 2010Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  10. 10th March 2010Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  11. 11th March 2010A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  12. 12th March 2010Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  13. 13th March 2010What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  14. 14th March 2010A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
  15. 15th March 2010In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
  16. 16th March 2010A 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).
  17. 17th March 2010A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
  18. 18th March 2010The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  19. 19th March 2010Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  20. 20th March 2010A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  21. 21st March 2010A game has four mutually exclusive outcomes: win, draw, lose, abandoned. P(win) = 0.45, P(draw) = 0.2, P(abandoned) = 0.05. Find P(lose).
  22. 22nd March 2010State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  23. 23rd March 2010Box plot A has a median of 50 and box plot B has a median of 42, for the same type of data. What does this tell you about the two data sets?
  24. 24th March 2010A shop records daily sales in pounds: 340, 355, 360, 348, 2, 352. Which value looks like a data entry error?
  25. 25th March 2010A town of population 10,000 records 20 births in a year. Find the crude birth rate per 1000 people.
  26. 26th March 2010A researcher wants a stratified sample of 30 from a population of 300 split into three regions: North (90 people), South (150 people) and East (60 people). She actually samples 9 from the North, 14 from the South and 7 from the East. Show whether her sample is correctly stratified, stating the correct numbers if not.
  27. 27th March 2010Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the median number of siblings.
  28. 28th March 2010Data set X has a range of 12 and data set Y has a range of 5. Which data set is more consistent?
  29. 29th March 2010An index number is 140 with a base value of 20. Find this year's value.
  30. 30th March 2010A bag has 4 yellow and 6 white balls. What is P(picking a yellow ball)?
  31. 31st March 2010A dice is rolled 120 times and shows a 6 on 15 of those rolls. Find the relative frequency of rolling a 6.

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