Daily Practice · Foundation
January 2014 5-a-day
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Every sheet in January 2014
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 2014Chart 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?
- 2nd January 2014Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
- 3rd January 2014A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
- 4th January 2014What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
- 5th January 2014The Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between hours spent watching TV and test score is rs = -0.4. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
- 6th January 2014Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
- 7th January 2014Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
- 8th January 2014Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
- 9th January 2014The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
- 10th January 2014A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
- 11th January 2014A 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?
- 12th January 2014On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
- 13th January 2014Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
- 14th January 2014In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
- 15th January 2014Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
- 16th January 2014A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
- 17th January 2014Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
- 18th January 2014Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
- 19th January 2014A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
- 20th January 2014Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
- 21st January 2014What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
- 22nd January 2014A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
- 23rd January 2014In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
- 24th January 2014A 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).
- 25th January 2014A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
- 26th January 2014The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
- 27th January 2014Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
- 28th January 2014A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
- 29th January 2014A 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).
- 30th January 2014State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
- 31st January 2014Box 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?