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September 2019 5-a-day

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September 2019

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st September 2019Out of 25 pupils, 12 like football, 9 like tennis, and 4 like both. How many like neither sport?
  2. 2nd September 2019A scatter graph shows points that generally rise from bottom left to top right. What type of correlation does this show?
  3. 3rd September 2019A scatter graph shows that as temperature increases, the number of hot drinks sold decreases. What type of correlation is this?
  4. 4th September 2019For a class, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between shoe size and spelling test score is rs = 0.15. Describe the correlation.
  5. 5th September 2019A company pilots its customer feedback survey on 20 customers before sending it to all 5000 customers. Explain why using only 20 people is still useful.
  6. 6th September 2019A student uses last year's census results for her project instead of running her own survey. Is this primary or secondary data?
  7. 7th September 2019A class of 15 students has a mean score of 30. When combined with another class of 25 students, the combined mean of all 40 students is 40. Find the mean score of the second class.
  8. 8th September 2019A survey of favourite colours gives: Red 6, Blue 9, Green 4, Yellow 5. How many people were surveyed in total?
  9. 9th September 2019A bar chart shows the bar for 'Bus' with height 40 and the bar for 'Walk' with height 25. How many more pupils travel by bus than walk?
  10. 10th September 2019A stem-and-leaf diagram has rows: 0|5 8, 1|2 2 6, 2|1. How many data values are there in total?
  11. 11th September 2019For 80 data values, at what cumulative frequency do you read across to find the lower quartile?
  12. 12th September 2019Two neighbouring regions on a choropleth map are shaded the same colour. What can you conclude about their values?
  13. 13th September 2019Which percentile is the same as the median?
  14. 14th September 2019A spreadsheet shows the formula =SUM(F1:F5)/COUNT(F1:F5) in cell F6. What statistical measure does this formula calculate?
  15. 15th September 2019State two things that should be decided during the planning stage of the enquiry cycle.
  16. 16th September 2019State whether interviewing shoppers face-to-face about their favourite supermarket is primary or secondary data collection.
  17. 17th September 2019For the ordered data 6, 9, 11, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 28, find the interquartile range.
  18. 18th September 2019A 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?
  19. 19th September 2019A 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)?
  20. 20th September 2019A class interval is 20-30 with frequency 8. Give the coordinates of the point plotted for this class.
  21. 21st September 2019A time series shows sales peaking every December for five years in a row. What is this repeating pattern called?
  22. 22nd September 2019Express a risk of 1/20 as a percentage.
  23. 23rd September 2019A 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).
  24. 24th September 2019A 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?
  25. 25th September 2019Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  26. 26th September 2019A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  27. 27th September 2019Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  28. 28th September 2019A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  29. 29th September 2019A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  30. 30th September 2019A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.

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