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June 2011 5-a-day

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June 2011

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  1. 1st June 2011A random sample of 50 packets of crisps from a production run of 8000 found 3 were underweight. Estimate how many packets in the whole run are underweight.
  2. 2nd June 2011Find the range of 22, 9, 31, 14, 6, 27.
  3. 3rd June 2011A gym has 900 members. A sample of 45 is needed using systematic sampling, with a random start of 12. Find the 4th person selected.
  4. 4th June 2011In a medicine trial, half the patients receive the real drug and half receive a dummy pill, and neither the patients nor the doctors know who received which until after results are recorded. What is this type of trial called, and why is it used?
  5. 5th June 2011Using the data in the previous question (12, 18, 25, 31, 9, 22, 15), state the frequency of the interval 20 <= x < 30.
  6. 6th June 2011A sector has an angle of 72 degrees in a pie chart representing 50 people in total. How many people does this sector represent?
  7. 7th June 2011In a Venn diagram, what does the region where two circles overlap represent?
  8. 8th June 2011A scatter graph shows points that generally fall from top left to bottom right. What type of correlation does this show?
  9. 9th June 2011A study finds a positive correlation between shoe size and reading ability in primary school children. Does having big feet cause better reading?
  10. 10th June 2011A researcher finds rs = 0.99 between a town's number of ice cream vans and its number of sunburn cases, and concludes the vans cause sunburn. Explain why this conclusion may be wrong.
  11. 11th June 2011A tick-box question has the options '0-10', '10-20', '20-30'. What problem would a pilot survey likely identify with this?
  12. 12th June 2011Is 'number of pets owned' discrete or continuous data?
  13. 13th June 2011Group A has 6 items with mean 15. Group B has 9 items with mean 25. Find the combined mean.
  14. 14th June 2011A frequency table for test scores out of 10 shows: score 6 has frequency 5, score 7 has frequency 8, score 8 has frequency x, score 9 has frequency 3, and the total frequency is 25. Find x.
  15. 15th June 2011Two composite bars compare tea and coffee drinkers: Monday has a total of 60 drinks, of which 35 are tea; Tuesday has a total of 72 drinks, of which 40 are tea. On which day was a greater proportion of drinks tea?
  16. 16th June 2011A stem-and-leaf diagram has the row '1 | 4 7 9' with key '1|4 means 14'. What three data values does this row represent?
  17. 17th June 2011Explain why a value read from a cumulative frequency graph, such as the median, is described as an estimate rather than an exact value.
  18. 18th June 2011On a choropleth map shaded from white (lowest) to black (highest), a region is coloured mid-grey. What does this suggest about its value?
  19. 19th June 2011A cumulative frequency graph shows that a value of 18 corresponds to a cumulative frequency of 45 out of 60 total data points. Find the percentile.
  20. 20th June 2011A column of 8 test scores is in cells D2 to D9. Give the formula for the mean score.
  21. 21st June 2011Name the first stage of the statistical enquiry cycle.
  22. 22nd June 2011State one advantage secondary data has over primary data for a project on rainfall over the last 50 years.
  23. 23rd June 2011A data set has Q1 = 22 and Q3 = 35. State the interquartile range and explain what it measures.
  24. 24th June 2011A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 4 books. A row has 2 and a half symbols. How many books does the row represent?
  25. 25th June 2011Two fair coins are flipped. How many equally likely outcomes are in the sample space?
  26. 26th June 2011A frequency table has classes 0-10, 10-20, 20-30 with frequencies 3, 9, 6. State all three coordinates for the frequency polygon.
  27. 27th June 2011On a time series graph, what is always plotted on the horizontal axis?
  28. 28th June 2011Group A has a risk of 0.08 of an event happening; Group B has a risk of 0.02. Find the relative risk of Group A compared with Group B.
  29. 29th June 2011A bag has 3 red, 4 green and 5 blue balls (12 total). One ball is removed at random and is blue. A second ball is then removed. Find P(second ball is red given the first ball was blue).
  30. 30th June 2011A 3D pie chart is used to show market share. Explain why 3D charts can be misleading.

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