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December 2020 5-a-day

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December 2020

31 sheets · 155 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st December 2020Class A has a mean test score of 62 and Class B has a mean of 58. Which class did better on average?
  2. 2nd December 2020A rent index shows 2019 = 100 and 2024 = 118. Find the actual rent in 2024 if the 2019 rent was 650 pounds.
  3. 3rd December 2020A fair coin is flipped once. What is P(heads)?
  4. 4th December 2020Student 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?
  5. 5th December 2020A coin is flipped twice. Find the probability of getting two heads.
  6. 6th December 2020A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  7. 7th December 2020A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  8. 8th December 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.
  9. 9th December 2020A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  10. 10th December 2020A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  11. 11th December 2020What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  12. 12th December 2020Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  13. 13th December 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?
  14. 14th December 2020Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  15. 15th December 2020A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
  16. 16th December 2020What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
  17. 17th December 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.
  18. 18th December 2020Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  19. 19th December 2020Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  20. 20th December 2020Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  21. 21st December 2020The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  22. 22nd December 2020A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  23. 23rd December 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?
  24. 24th December 2020On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  25. 25th December 2020Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  26. 26th December 2020In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  27. 27th December 2020Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  28. 28th December 2020A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  29. 29th December 2020Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  30. 30th December 2020Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  31. 31st December 2020A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?

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