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May 2016 5-a-day

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May 2016

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  1. 1st May 2016Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  2. 2nd May 2016Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  3. 3rd May 2016Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  4. 4th May 2016The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  5. 5th May 2016A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  6. 6th May 2016A 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?
  7. 7th May 2016On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  8. 8th May 2016Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  9. 9th May 2016In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  10. 10th May 2016Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  11. 11th May 2016A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  12. 12th May 2016Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  13. 13th May 2016Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  14. 14th May 2016A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  15. 15th May 2016Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  16. 16th May 2016What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  17. 17th May 2016A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
  18. 18th May 2016In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
  19. 19th May 2016A 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).
  20. 20th May 2016A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
  21. 21st May 2016The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  22. 22nd May 2016Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  23. 23rd May 2016A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  24. 24th May 2016A 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).
  25. 25th May 2016State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  26. 26th May 2016Box 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?
  27. 27th May 2016A shop records daily sales in pounds: 340, 355, 360, 348, 2, 352. Which value looks like a data entry error?
  28. 28th May 2016A town of population 10,000 records 20 births in a year. Find the crude birth rate per 1000 people.
  29. 29th May 2016A researcher wants a stratified sample of 30 from a population of 300 split into three regions: North (90 people), South (150 people) and East (60 people). She actually samples 9 from the North, 14 from the South and 7 from the East. Show whether her sample is correctly stratified, stating the correct numbers if not.
  30. 30th May 2016Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the median number of siblings.
  31. 31st May 2016Data set X has a range of 12 and data set Y has a range of 5. Which data set is more consistent?

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