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April 2015 5-a-day

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April 2015

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st April 2015A country of population 2,000,000 records 3,000 deaths in a year. Find the crude death rate per 100,000 people.
  2. 2nd April 2015A college has 120 Maths students, 80 Science students and 100 English students (300 total). A stratified sample of size 60 is needed. Find the number sampled from each subject.
  3. 3rd April 2015A table shows number of siblings: 0 (freq 4), 1 (freq 10), 2 (freq 4), 3 (freq 2). Find the mode.
  4. 4th April 2015Shop A's daily sales have an IQR of 40 pounds and Shop B's have an IQR of 15 pounds. Which shop has more variable daily sales?
  5. 5th April 2015The price of milk was 0.80 pounds in the base year and 0.92 pounds this year. Find the index number for milk this year.
  6. 6th April 2015A fair six-sided dice is rolled. What is P(rolling a 5)?
  7. 7th April 2015A spinner is spun 80 times and lands on blue 20 times. Estimate the probability of landing on blue.
  8. 8th April 2015Three branches from a single point are labelled 0.4, 0.35 and x. Find x.
  9. 9th April 2015Country A's pyramid has a wide base and narrow top; Country B's has a narrow base and a wide middle/top. Which country most likely has the higher birth rate?
  10. 10th April 2015A shop's till receipts have mode 5 pounds, median 8 pounds, mean 15 pounds. State the type of skew and give a reason.
  11. 11th April 2015A 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.
  12. 12th April 2015Find the range of 22, 9, 31, 14, 6, 27.
  13. 13th April 2015A gym has 900 members. A sample of 45 is needed using systematic sampling, with a random start of 12. Find the 4th person selected.
  14. 14th April 2015In 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?
  15. 15th April 2015Using the data in the previous question (12, 18, 25, 31, 9, 22, 15), state the frequency of the interval 20 <= x < 30.
  16. 16th April 2015A sector has an angle of 72 degrees in a pie chart representing 50 people in total. How many people does this sector represent?
  17. 17th April 2015In a Venn diagram, what does the region where two circles overlap represent?
  18. 18th April 2015A scatter graph shows points that generally fall from top left to bottom right. What type of correlation does this show?
  19. 19th April 2015A study finds a positive correlation between shoe size and reading ability in primary school children. Does having big feet cause better reading?
  20. 20th April 2015A 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.
  21. 21st April 2015A tick-box question has the options '0-10', '10-20', '20-30'. What problem would a pilot survey likely identify with this?
  22. 22nd April 2015Is 'number of pets owned' discrete or continuous data?
  23. 23rd April 2015Group A has 6 items with mean 15. Group B has 9 items with mean 25. Find the combined mean.
  24. 24th April 2015A 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.
  25. 25th April 2015Two 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?
  26. 26th April 2015A 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?
  27. 27th April 2015Explain why a value read from a cumulative frequency graph, such as the median, is described as an estimate rather than an exact value.
  28. 28th April 2015On a choropleth map shaded from white (lowest) to black (highest), a region is coloured mid-grey. What does this suggest about its value?
  29. 29th April 2015A 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.
  30. 30th April 2015A column of 8 test scores is in cells D2 to D9. Give the formula for the mean score.

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