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July 2013 5-a-day

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July 2013

31 sheets · 155 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st July 2013For a class, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between shoe size and spelling test score is rs = 0.15. Describe the correlation.
  2. 2nd July 2013A 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.
  3. 3rd July 2013A student uses last year's census results for her project instead of running her own survey. Is this primary or secondary data?
  4. 4th July 2013A 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.
  5. 5th July 2013A survey of favourite colours gives: Red 6, Blue 9, Green 4, Yellow 5. How many people were surveyed in total?
  6. 6th July 2013A 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?
  7. 7th July 2013A stem-and-leaf diagram has rows: 0|5 8, 1|2 2 6, 2|1. How many data values are there in total?
  8. 8th July 2013For 80 data values, at what cumulative frequency do you read across to find the lower quartile?
  9. 9th July 2013Two neighbouring regions on a choropleth map are shaded the same colour. What can you conclude about their values?
  10. 10th July 2013Which percentile is the same as the median?
  11. 11th July 2013A spreadsheet shows the formula =SUM(F1:F5)/COUNT(F1:F5) in cell F6. What statistical measure does this formula calculate?
  12. 12th July 2013State two things that should be decided during the planning stage of the enquiry cycle.
  13. 13th July 2013State whether interviewing shoppers face-to-face about their favourite supermarket is primary or secondary data collection.
  14. 14th July 2013For the ordered data 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 28, find the interquartile range.
  15. 15th July 2013A 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?
  16. 16th July 2013A 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)?
  17. 17th July 2013A class interval is 20-30 with frequency 8. Give the coordinates of the point plotted for this class.
  18. 18th July 2013A time series shows sales peaking every December for five years in a row. What is this repeating pattern called?
  19. 19th July 2013Express a risk of 1/20 as a percentage.
  20. 20th July 2013A 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).
  21. 21st July 2013A 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?
  22. 22nd July 2013Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  23. 23rd July 2013A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  24. 24th July 2013Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  25. 25th July 2013A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  26. 26th July 2013A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  27. 27th July 2013A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  28. 28th July 2013A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, 13, 99. Which value is most likely an outlier?
  29. 29th July 2013A city's population grows from 50,000 to 52,000 in one year. Find the percentage rate of change.
  30. 30th July 2013A company has 60 male and 90 female employees (150 total). A stratified sample of 30 employees is taken. How many males should be sampled?
  31. 31st July 2013Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the total number of students.

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