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June 2016 5-a-day

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June 2016

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st June 2016An index number is 140 with a base value of 20. Find this year's value.
  2. 2nd June 2016A bag has 4 yellow and 6 white balls. What is P(picking a yellow ball)?
  3. 3rd June 2016A dice is rolled 120 times and shows a 6 on 15 of those rolls. Find the relative frequency of rolling a 6.
  4. 4th June 2016A bag has 4 green and 6 yellow balls. One ball is drawn, replaced, then a second is drawn. Find P(both yellow).
  5. 5th June 2016A pyramid has a wide base and a narrow top. What does this suggest about the population?
  6. 6th June 2016A distribution has a long tail of high values on the right. What type of skew is this?
  7. 7th June 2016A quality inspector samples 120 items from a batch of 15000 and finds 3 defective, but the sample was taken only from items made in the last hour of the day. Explain why her estimate might not be reliable, and give the estimate assuming the sample were representative.
  8. 8th June 2016Find the mode of 5, 6, 5, 8, 6, 6, 9.
  9. 9th June 2016State one disadvantage of quota sampling.
  10. 10th June 2016Give one reason why participants should be assigned to groups at random.
  11. 11th June 2016A class interval is written 10 <= x < 20. Which of these values belong in it: 10, 20, 15?
  12. 12th June 2016A pie chart represents 60 people. What angle represents 1 person?
  13. 13th June 2016A rectangle labelled 20 contains two non-overlapping circles for events A and B with 8 and 5 inside them. How many outcomes are outside both circles?
  14. 14th June 2016Using the line of best fit from the previous question, estimate the y-value when x = 6.
  15. 15th June 2016Define correlation in your own words.
  16. 16th June 2016The Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between the age of a used car and its price is rs = -0.88. Describe the correlation.
  17. 17th June 2016State one change a researcher might make to a questionnaire as a result of a pilot survey.
  18. 18th June 2016State whether 'shoe size' is discrete or continuous, and explain why.
  19. 19th June 2016Group A has 18 items with mean 62. Group B has 22 items with mean 70. Find the combined mean.
  20. 20th June 2016A tally shows 4 full groups of five plus 2 extra marks for one category. What is the frequency?
  21. 21st June 2016A composite bar chart shows exam grades at a school: the bar has a section from 0 to 10 for Grade 9-7, a section from 10 to 34 for Grade 6-4, and a section from 34 to 40 for Grade 3-1. How many students got Grade 6-4?
  22. 22nd June 2016Using the diagram from the question above, what is the mode?
  23. 23rd June 2016A cumulative frequency graph for 80 data values is used to estimate the median. At what cumulative frequency value do you read across to the curve?
  24. 24th June 2016A choropleth map uses class intervals of 0-10, 10-30, 30-40 and 40-90. Why might this be misleading?
  25. 25th June 2016What percentage of data lies below the 40th percentile?
  26. 26th June 2016Which spreadsheet formula would you use to find how many values are in the range C1 to C50?
  27. 27th June 2016A researcher decides her sample size was too small after seeing her results. Which stage of the cycle does this belong to?
  28. 28th June 2016A question asks: 'Don't you agree that the new bus timetable is an improvement?' State what is wrong with this question.
  29. 29th June 2016For the ordered data 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, find the lower quartile (Q1) and upper quartile (Q3).
  30. 30th June 2016A pictogram shows 5 full symbols for apples sold, with a key of 1 symbol = 12 apples. How many apples were sold?

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