Daily Practice · Foundation
March 2020 5-a-day
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- 1st March 2020A 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.
- 2nd March 2020A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
- 3rd March 2020A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
- 4th March 2020What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
- 5th March 2020Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
- 6th March 2020Chart 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?
- 7th March 2020Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
- 8th March 2020A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
- 9th March 2020What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
- 10th March 2020The 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.
- 11th March 2020Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
- 12th March 2020Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
- 13th March 2020Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
- 14th March 2020The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
- 15th March 2020A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
- 16th March 2020A 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?
- 17th March 2020On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
- 18th March 2020Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
- 19th March 2020In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
- 20th March 2020Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
- 21st March 2020A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
- 22nd March 2020Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
- 23rd March 2020Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
- 24th March 2020A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
- 25th March 2020Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
- 26th March 2020What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
- 27th March 2020A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?
- 28th March 2020In a trial, 3 out of 150 patients taking a new drug had side effects. Write this risk in '1 in n' form.
- 29th March 2020A drawer has 7 black socks and 5 white socks. Two socks are taken without replacement. Find P(second sock is black given the first sock was black).
- 30th March 2020A line graph's horizontal (time) axis has unequal gaps between the years labelled: 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016. Why could this mislead a reader?
- 31st March 2020The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.