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September 2021 5-a-day

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September 2021

30 sheets · 150 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st September 2021Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  2. 2nd September 2021A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  3. 3rd September 2021A 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?
  4. 4th September 2021Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  5. 5th September 2021Give one reason you might choose to keep an outlier in a data set rather than remove it.
  6. 6th September 2021A region records 90 crimes in a population of 45,000. Find the crude crime rate per 1000 people.
  7. 7th September 2021A 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?
  8. 8th September 2021A 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.
  9. 9th September 2021Class A has a mean test score of 62 and Class B has a mean of 58. Which class did better on average?
  10. 10th September 2021A rent index shows 2019 = 100 and 2024 = 118. Find the actual rent in 2024 if the 2019 rent was 650 pounds.
  11. 11th September 2021A fair coin is flipped once. What is P(heads)?
  12. 12th September 2021Student 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?
  13. 13th September 2021A coin is flipped twice. Find the probability of getting two heads.
  14. 14th September 2021A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  15. 15th September 2021A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  16. 16th September 2021A 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.
  17. 17th September 2021A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  18. 18th September 2021A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  19. 19th September 2021What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  20. 20th September 2021Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  21. 21st September 2021Chart 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?
  22. 22nd September 2021Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  23. 23rd September 2021A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
  24. 24th September 2021What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
  25. 25th September 2021The 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.
  26. 26th September 2021Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  27. 27th September 2021Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  28. 28th September 2021Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  29. 29th September 2021The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  30. 30th September 2021A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?

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