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March 2018 5-a-day

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March 2018

31 sheets · 155 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st March 2018State whether interviewing shoppers face-to-face about their favourite supermarket is primary or secondary data collection.
  2. 2nd March 2018For the ordered data 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 28, find the interquartile range.
  3. 3rd March 2018A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 6 cakes. A row has 1 symbol and a third of a symbol. How many cakes does the row represent?
  4. 4th March 2018A spinner with sections A, B and C is spun alongside a fair coin. How many outcomes are in the sample space, and what is P(getting C and Heads)?
  5. 5th March 2018A class interval is 20-30 with frequency 8. Give the coordinates of the point plotted for this class.
  6. 6th March 2018A time series shows sales peaking every December for five years in a row. What is this repeating pattern called?
  7. 7th March 2018Express a risk of 1/20 as a percentage.
  8. 8th March 2018A box has 4 chocolate and 6 plain biscuits. One biscuit is eaten (it was chocolate), then a second is taken at random. Find P(second is chocolate given first was chocolate).
  9. 9th March 2018A pictogram uses one whole apple symbol to represent 10 apples sold, but one row shows a half apple symbol with no key given for partial symbols. Why could this be misleading?
  10. 10th March 2018Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  11. 11th March 2018A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  12. 12th March 2018Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  13. 13th March 2018A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  14. 14th March 2018A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  15. 15th March 2018A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  16. 16th March 2018A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, 13, 99. Which value is most likely an outlier?
  17. 17th March 2018A city's population grows from 50,000 to 52,000 in one year. Find the percentage rate of change.
  18. 18th March 2018A company has 60 male and 90 female employees (150 total). A stratified sample of 30 employees is taken. How many males should be sampled?
  19. 19th March 2018Using the same table (0:4, 1:10, 2:4, 3:2), find the total number of students.
  20. 20th March 2018Two classes sit the same test. Class P: mean 70, range 10. Class Q: mean 55, range 30. Write a full comparison.
  21. 21st March 2018An item has an index number of 88 compared to its base year. State whether the value has increased or decreased, and by what percentage.
  22. 22nd March 2018An event has a probability of 0.2 of happening. What is the probability that it does not happen?
  23. 23rd March 2018Using the relative frequency from the spinner above, estimate how many times it would land on blue in 300 spins.
  24. 24th March 2018A spinner has P(win) = 0.3. It is spun twice, independently. Find the probability of winning both times.
  25. 25th March 2018On a population pyramid, which axis shows the age groups?
  26. 26th March 2018A box plot shows a long whisker on the left and a short whisker on the right, with the median close to the right of the box. What type of skew does this suggest?
  27. 27th March 2018A survey of 30 shoppers out of 900 in a store found the mean amount spent was 18.50 pounds. What is the best estimate of the mean amount spent by all 900 shoppers?
  28. 28th March 2018Find the median of 8, 3, 15, 3, 10.
  29. 29th March 2018A school of 600 students wants a sample of 30. A teacher decides to only survey students in her own class of 30. State one problem with this method.
  30. 30th March 2018A scientist tests a new plant food but only uses it on the healthiest-looking plants. Explain why this is a flawed design.
  31. 31st March 2018The frequencies for four class intervals are 6, 9, 11, 4. Find the total number of data values.

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