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April 2017 5-a-day

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April 2017

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st April 2017A 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?
  2. 2nd April 2017A choropleth map uses class intervals of 0-10, 10-30, 30-40 and 40-90. Why might this be misleading?
  3. 3rd April 2017What percentage of data lies below the 40th percentile?
  4. 4th April 2017Which spreadsheet formula would you use to find how many values are in the range C1 to C50?
  5. 5th April 2017A researcher decides her sample size was too small after seeing her results. Which stage of the cycle does this belong to?
  6. 6th April 2017A question asks: 'Don't you agree that the new bus timetable is an improvement?' State what is wrong with this question.
  7. 7th April 2017For the ordered data 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, find the lower quartile (Q1) and upper quartile (Q3).
  8. 8th April 2017A pictogram shows 5 full symbols for apples sold, with a key of 1 symbol = 12 apples. How many apples were sold?
  9. 9th April 2017Using the two-coin sample space, find P(exactly one head).
  10. 10th April 2017A 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.
  11. 11th April 2017Explain why using a time series trend to estimate a value many years into the future is less reliable than estimating one year ahead.
  12. 12th April 2017Using your answers to the previous question, find the relative risk for phone users compared with non-users, and interpret it.
  13. 13th April 2017A 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).
  14. 14th April 2017A pie chart is drawn showing 3 sectors that look visually equal in size, but the data is 50%, 30% and 20%. What is wrong?
  15. 15th April 2017A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  16. 16th April 2017What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  17. 17th April 2017What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  18. 18th April 2017P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  19. 19th April 2017A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  20. 20th April 2017A 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?
  21. 21st April 2017Explain why the median might be a more appropriate average to use on a data set with an outlier, instead of removing the outlier first.
  22. 22nd April 2017A population falls from 8,000 to 7,600. Find the percentage rate of change, stating whether it is an increase or decrease.
  23. 23rd April 2017A 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.
  24. 24th April 2017Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the range.
  25. 25th April 2017Team 1 has median height 165 cm and Team 2 has median height 172 cm. Write one comparison in context.
  26. 26th April 2017A base year value is 40 and this year's value is 50. Find the index number.
  27. 27th April 2017A spinner has 8 equal sections numbered 1 to 8. What is P(the spinner lands on a number greater than 5)?
  28. 28th April 2017A coin is flipped 50 times and lands on heads 27 times. Find the relative frequency of heads.
  29. 29th April 2017On a tree diagram, what do you do to find the probability of a single path through the branches?
  30. 30th April 2017On 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?

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