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November 2017 5-a-day

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November 2017

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st November 2017A fair coin is flipped once. What is P(heads)?
  2. 2nd November 2017Student A rolls a dice 20 times and gets a 6 four times. Student B rolls the same dice 300 times and gets a 6 forty-eight times. Whose relative frequency is a more reliable estimate of the true probability, and what is it?
  3. 3rd November 2017A coin is flipped twice. Find the probability of getting two heads.
  4. 4th November 2017A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  5. 5th November 2017A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  6. 6th November 2017A garden centre sampled 45 out of 3000 trees and found 40 had survived the winter. Estimate how many of the 3000 trees survived the winter.
  7. 7th November 2017A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  8. 8th November 2017A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  9. 9th November 2017What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  10. 10th November 2017Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  11. 11th November 2017Chart A represents 80 votes and has a 'Green Party' sector of 45 degrees. Chart B represents 150 votes and has a 'Green Party' sector of 30 degrees. Which chart represents more actual Green Party votes?
  12. 12th November 2017Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  13. 13th November 2017A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
  14. 14th November 2017What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
  15. 15th November 2017The Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between hours spent watching TV and test score is rs = -0.4. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  16. 16th November 2017Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  17. 17th November 2017Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  18. 18th November 2017Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  19. 19th November 2017The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  20. 20th November 2017A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  21. 21st November 2017A 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?
  22. 22nd November 2017On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  23. 23rd November 2017Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  24. 24th November 2017In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  25. 25th November 2017Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  26. 26th November 2017A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  27. 27th November 2017Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  28. 28th November 2017Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  29. 29th November 2017A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  30. 30th November 2017Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?

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