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March 2011 5-a-day

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March 2011

31 sheets · 155 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st March 2011A 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.
  2. 2nd March 2011What is a control group used for?
  3. 3rd March 2011A 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.
  4. 4th March 2011A pie chart represents 200 people. One sector has an angle of 45 degrees. How many people does it represent?
  5. 5th March 2011Out of 25 pupils, 12 like football, 9 like tennis, and 4 like both. How many like neither sport?
  6. 6th March 2011A scatter graph shows points that generally rise from bottom left to top right. What type of correlation does this show?
  7. 7th March 2011A scatter graph shows that as temperature increases, the number of hot drinks sold decreases. What type of correlation is this?
  8. 8th March 2011For a class, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between shoe size and spelling test score is rs = 0.15. Describe the correlation.
  9. 9th March 2011A 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.
  10. 10th March 2011A student uses last year's census results for her project instead of running her own survey. Is this primary or secondary data?
  11. 11th March 2011A 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.
  12. 12th March 2011A survey of favourite colours gives: Red 6, Blue 9, Green 4, Yellow 5. How many people were surveyed in total?
  13. 13th March 2011A 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?
  14. 14th March 2011A stem-and-leaf diagram has rows: 0|5 8, 1|2 2 6, 2|1. How many data values are there in total?
  15. 15th March 2011For 80 data values, at what cumulative frequency do you read across to find the lower quartile?
  16. 16th March 2011Two neighbouring regions on a choropleth map are shaded the same colour. What can you conclude about their values?
  17. 17th March 2011Which percentile is the same as the median?
  18. 18th March 2011A spreadsheet shows the formula =SUM(F1:F5)/COUNT(F1:F5) in cell F6. What statistical measure does this formula calculate?
  19. 19th March 2011State two things that should be decided during the planning stage of the enquiry cycle.
  20. 20th March 2011State whether interviewing shoppers face-to-face about their favourite supermarket is primary or secondary data collection.
  21. 21st March 2011For the ordered data 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 28, find the interquartile range.
  22. 22nd March 2011A 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?
  23. 23rd March 2011A 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)?
  24. 24th March 2011A class interval is 20-30 with frequency 8. Give the coordinates of the point plotted for this class.
  25. 25th March 2011A time series shows sales peaking every December for five years in a row. What is this repeating pattern called?
  26. 26th March 2011Express a risk of 1/20 as a percentage.
  27. 27th March 2011A 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).
  28. 28th March 2011A 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?
  29. 29th March 2011Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  30. 30th March 2011A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  31. 31st March 2011Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.

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