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November 2010 5-a-day

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November 2010

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st November 2010A pictogram has a key of 1 symbol = 4 people. A town has 22 people who play chess. How many symbols, including any part-symbol, should be drawn?
  2. 2nd November 2010Using two fair six-sided dice added together, how many ways can you score a total of 7?
  3. 3rd November 2010Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  4. 4th November 2010A company's yearly profits are 10, 12, 11, 15, 14 thousand pounds over five years. Describe the general trend.
  5. 5th November 2010Out of 200 people who ate a certain meal, 10 became ill. What is the risk of becoming ill, as a fraction in its simplest form?
  6. 6th November 2010A class has 12 boys and 8 girls. One student, a girl, leaves the room. A second student is then chosen at random from those remaining. Find P(second student chosen is a girl given the first was a girl).
  7. 7th November 2010A newspaper bar chart showing company profit over 5 years has no vertical axis labels or scale, just bars of different heights. Explain the problem with this.
  8. 8th November 2010Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  9. 9th November 2010What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  10. 10th November 2010Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  11. 11th November 2010A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  12. 12th November 2010A histogram for exam scores has bars of equal width 10 marks, covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, with heights 2, 8, 15, 5. How many students took the exam?
  13. 13th November 2010Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  14. 14th November 2010Give one reason you might choose to keep an outlier in a data set rather than remove it.
  15. 15th November 2010A region records 90 crimes in a population of 45,000. Find the crude crime rate per 1000 people.
  16. 16th November 2010A youth club has 45 members under 13 and 75 members aged 13 to 17 (120 total). A stratified sample of 40 members is needed. How many aged 13 to 17 should be sampled?
  17. 17th November 2010A different table shows test scores out of 5 for 30 students: 1 (freq 3), 2 (freq 5), 3 (freq 9), 4 (freq 8), 5 (freq 5). Find the mean score.
  18. 18th November 2010Class A has a mean test score of 62 and Class B has a mean of 58. Which class did better on average?
  19. 19th November 2010A rent index shows 2019 = 100 and 2024 = 118. Find the actual rent in 2024 if the 2019 rent was 650 pounds.
  20. 20th November 2010A fair coin is flipped once. What is P(heads)?
  21. 21st November 2010Student A rolls a dice 20 times and gets a 6 four times. Student B rolls the same dice 300 times and gets a 6 forty-eight times. Whose relative frequency is a more reliable estimate of the true probability, and what is it?
  22. 22nd November 2010A coin is flipped twice. Find the probability of getting two heads.
  23. 23rd November 2010A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  24. 24th November 2010A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  25. 25th November 2010A garden centre sampled 45 out of 3000 trees and found 40 had survived the winter. Estimate how many of the 3000 trees survived the winter.
  26. 26th November 2010A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  27. 27th November 2010A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  28. 28th November 2010What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  29. 29th November 2010Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  30. 30th November 2010Chart 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?

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