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July 2016 5-a-day

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July 2016

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  1. 1st July 2016Using the two-coin sample space, find P(exactly one head).
  2. 2nd July 2016A frequency polygon has classes of unequal width: 0-10 and 10-30. Explain why comparing the heights of the two plotted points directly can be misleading.
  3. 3rd July 2016Explain why using a time series trend to estimate a value many years into the future is less reliable than estimating one year ahead.
  4. 4th July 2016Using your answers to the previous question, find the relative risk for phone users compared with non-users, and interpret it.
  5. 5th July 2016A pack of 10 cards is numbered 1 to 10. One card is drawn and not replaced; it is even. A second card is then drawn. Find P(second card is even given the first card was even).
  6. 6th July 2016A pie chart is drawn showing 3 sectors that look visually equal in size, but the data is 50%, 30% and 20%. What is wrong?
  7. 7th July 2016A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  8. 8th July 2016What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  9. 9th July 2016What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  10. 10th July 2016P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  11. 11th July 2016A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  12. 12th July 2016A box plot for 40 values has lower quartile 15 and upper quartile 25. Roughly how many of the 40 values lie between 15 and 25?
  13. 13th July 2016Explain why the median might be a more appropriate average to use on a data set with an outlier, instead of removing the outlier first.
  14. 14th July 2016A population falls from 8,000 to 7,600. Find the percentage rate of change, stating whether it is an increase or decrease.
  15. 15th July 2016A population of 90 people is split into 3 age groups: 30 aged 18 to 30, 40 aged 31 to 50, and 20 aged 51 or over. A stratified sample of 27 is needed. Find how many from the 51-or-over group should be sampled.
  16. 16th July 2016Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the range.
  17. 17th July 2016Team 1 has median height 165 cm and Team 2 has median height 172 cm. Write one comparison in context.
  18. 18th July 2016A base year value is 40 and this year's value is 50. Find the index number.
  19. 19th July 2016A spinner has 8 equal sections numbered 1 to 8. What is P(the spinner lands on a number greater than 5)?
  20. 20th July 2016A coin is flipped 50 times and lands on heads 27 times. Find the relative frequency of heads.
  21. 21st July 2016On a tree diagram, what do you do to find the probability of a single path through the branches?
  22. 22nd July 2016On 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?
  23. 23rd July 2016Describe, using the mean and median, how you could tell that a distribution is positively skewed without drawing a graph.
  24. 24th July 2016A 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.
  25. 25th July 2016Find the mean of 4, 7, 9, 12, 18.
  26. 26th July 2016A 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.
  27. 27th July 2016What is a control group used for?
  28. 28th July 2016A 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.
  29. 29th July 2016A pie chart represents 200 people. One sector has an angle of 45 degrees. How many people does it represent?
  30. 30th July 2016Out of 25 pupils, 12 like football, 9 like tennis, and 4 like both. How many like neither sport?
  31. 31st July 2016A scatter graph shows points that generally rise from bottom left to top right. What type of correlation does this show?

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