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May 2019 5-a-day

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May 2019

31 sheets · 155 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st May 2019Using two fair six-sided dice added together, how many ways can you score a total of 7?
  2. 2nd May 2019Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  3. 3rd May 2019A company's yearly profits are 10, 12, 11, 15, 14 thousand pounds over five years. Describe the general trend.
  4. 4th May 2019Out of 200 people who ate a certain meal, 10 became ill. What is the risk of becoming ill, as a fraction in its simplest form?
  5. 5th May 2019A class has 12 boys and 8 girls. One student, a girl, leaves the room. A second student is then chosen at random from those remaining. Find P(second student chosen is a girl given the first was a girl).
  6. 6th May 2019A newspaper bar chart showing company profit over 5 years has no vertical axis labels or scale, just bars of different heights. Explain the problem with this.
  7. 7th May 2019Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  8. 8th May 2019What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  9. 9th May 2019Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  10. 10th May 2019A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  11. 11th May 2019A histogram for exam scores has bars of equal width 10 marks, covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, with heights 2, 8, 15, 5. How many students took the exam?
  12. 12th May 2019Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  13. 13th May 2019Give one reason you might choose to keep an outlier in a data set rather than remove it.
  14. 14th May 2019A region records 90 crimes in a population of 45,000. Find the crude crime rate per 1000 people.
  15. 15th May 2019A youth club has 45 members under 13 and 75 members aged 13 to 17 (120 total). A stratified sample of 40 members is needed. How many aged 13 to 17 should be sampled?
  16. 16th May 2019A different table shows test scores out of 5 for 30 students: 1 (freq 3), 2 (freq 5), 3 (freq 9), 4 (freq 8), 5 (freq 5). Find the mean score.
  17. 17th May 2019Class A has a mean test score of 62 and Class B has a mean of 58. Which class did better on average?
  18. 18th May 2019A rent index shows 2019 = 100 and 2024 = 118. Find the actual rent in 2024 if the 2019 rent was 650 pounds.
  19. 19th May 2019A fair coin is flipped once. What is P(heads)?
  20. 20th May 2019Student 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?
  21. 21st May 2019A coin is flipped twice. Find the probability of getting two heads.
  22. 22nd May 2019A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  23. 23rd May 2019A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  24. 24th May 2019A 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.
  25. 25th May 2019A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  26. 26th May 2019A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  27. 27th May 2019What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  28. 28th May 2019Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  29. 29th May 2019Chart 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?
  30. 30th May 2019Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  31. 31st May 2019A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.

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