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January 2015 5-a-day

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January 2015

31 sheets · 155 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st January 2015A base year value is 40 and this year's value is 50. Find the index number.
  2. 2nd January 2015A spinner has 8 equal sections numbered 1 to 8. What is P(the spinner lands on a number greater than 5)?
  3. 3rd January 2015A coin is flipped 50 times and lands on heads 27 times. Find the relative frequency of heads.
  4. 4th January 2015On a tree diagram, what do you do to find the probability of a single path through the branches?
  5. 5th January 2015On a pyramid where male bars point left and female bars point right, the bar for females aged 20-24 is longer than the bar for males aged 20-24. What does this tell you?
  6. 6th January 2015Describe, using the mean and median, how you could tell that a distribution is positively skewed without drawing a graph.
  7. 7th January 2015A sample of 25 students from a school of 500 found that 5 walk to school. Estimate how many of all 500 students walk to school.
  8. 8th January 2015Find the mean of 4, 7, 9, 12, 18.
  9. 9th January 2015A 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.
  10. 10th January 2015What is a control group used for?
  11. 11th January 2015A 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.
  12. 12th January 2015A pie chart represents 200 people. One sector has an angle of 45 degrees. How many people does it represent?
  13. 13th January 2015Out of 25 pupils, 12 like football, 9 like tennis, and 4 like both. How many like neither sport?
  14. 14th January 2015A scatter graph shows points that generally rise from bottom left to top right. What type of correlation does this show?
  15. 15th January 2015A scatter graph shows that as temperature increases, the number of hot drinks sold decreases. What type of correlation is this?
  16. 16th January 2015For a class, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between shoe size and spelling test score is rs = 0.15. Describe the correlation.
  17. 17th January 2015A 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.
  18. 18th January 2015A student uses last year's census results for her project instead of running her own survey. Is this primary or secondary data?
  19. 19th January 2015A 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.
  20. 20th January 2015A survey of favourite colours gives: Red 6, Blue 9, Green 4, Yellow 5. How many people were surveyed in total?
  21. 21st January 2015A 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?
  22. 22nd January 2015A stem-and-leaf diagram has rows: 0|5 8, 1|2 2 6, 2|1. How many data values are there in total?
  23. 23rd January 2015For 80 data values, at what cumulative frequency do you read across to find the lower quartile?
  24. 24th January 2015Two neighbouring regions on a choropleth map are shaded the same colour. What can you conclude about their values?
  25. 25th January 2015Which percentile is the same as the median?
  26. 26th January 2015A spreadsheet shows the formula =SUM(F1:F5)/COUNT(F1:F5) in cell F6. What statistical measure does this formula calculate?
  27. 27th January 2015State two things that should be decided during the planning stage of the enquiry cycle.
  28. 28th January 2015State whether interviewing shoppers face-to-face about their favourite supermarket is primary or secondary data collection.
  29. 29th January 2015For the ordered data 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 28, find the interquartile range.
  30. 30th January 2015A 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?
  31. 31st January 2015A 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)?

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