Daily Practice · Foundation
December 2022 5-a-day
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The batch download puts all 2 tiers' December 2022 sheets in a single PDF, each tier behind its own divider page - 62 sheets in one file.
Every sheet in December 2022
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st December 2022In a class of 30 students, a student's mark is at the 90th percentile. Roughly how many students scored less than or equal to that mark?
- 2nd December 2022Data on 200 students' exam scores is in a spreadsheet. Give one advantage of using a spreadsheet rather than calculating the mean and range by hand.
- 3rd December 2022Which stage of the statistical enquiry cycle comes immediately after collecting the data?
- 4th December 2022A student uses figures from a government website for her project. Is this primary or secondary data?
- 5th December 2022Find the median of: 3, 5, 8, 10.
- 6th December 2022Two rows of a pictogram show 4.5 symbols and 3.5 symbols, with a key of 1 symbol = 20 pounds. Work out the combined total for both rows.
- 7th December 2022Using two fair six-sided dice added together, find P(total is 7).
- 8th December 2022Two frequency polygons are drawn on the same axes for boys' and girls' test scores. What feature of the graphs shows which group generally scored higher?
- 9th December 2022A time series graph generally slopes upward from left to right over several years. What is this called?
- 10th December 2022Out of 600 drivers who used a phone while driving, 24 had an accident that year, compared with 9 out of 900 drivers who did not use a phone. Calculate the risk of an accident for each group.
- 11th December 2022In a survey of 40 students, 25 like Maths. Of those 25, 18 also like Science. Find P(likes Science given likes Maths).
- 12th December 2022A bar chart's vertical axis runs from 0 to 10 in equal steps of 2. Is this axis likely to be misleading?
- 13th December 2022The table shows ages, in years, of 50 people at a gym: 10-20 (freq 6), 20-30 (freq 18), 30-40 (freq 16), 40-50 (freq 10). Estimate the mean age.
- 14th December 2022Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
- 15th December 2022Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
- 16th December 2022Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
- 17th December 2022A histogram of ages has 5 equal-width bars covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50 with heights 3, 7, x, 9, 2, and a total of 35 people. Find x.
- 18th December 2022Box plot A has an interquartile range of 8 and box plot B has an interquartile range of 15. What does this tell you about the spread of the middle 50 percent of each data set?
- 19th December 2022A data set of test scores out of 100 is: 55, 60, 58, 62, 59, -10. Which value must be an error, and why?
- 20th December 2022A country of population 2,000,000 records 3,000 deaths in a year. Find the crude death rate per 100,000 people.
- 21st December 2022A college has 120 Maths students, 80 Science students and 100 English students (300 total). A stratified sample of size 60 is needed. Find the number sampled from each subject.
- 22nd December 2022A table shows number of siblings: 0 (freq 4), 1 (freq 10), 2 (freq 4), 3 (freq 2). Find the mode.
- 23rd December 2022Shop A's daily sales have an IQR of 40 pounds and Shop B's have an IQR of 15 pounds. Which shop has more variable daily sales?
- 24th December 2022The price of milk was 0.80 pounds in the base year and 0.92 pounds this year. Find the index number for milk this year.
- 25th December 2022A fair six-sided dice is rolled. What is P(rolling a 5)?
- 26th December 2022A spinner is spun 80 times and lands on blue 20 times. Estimate the probability of landing on blue.
- 27th December 2022Three branches from a single point are labelled 0.4, 0.35 and x. Find x.
- 28th December 2022Country A's pyramid has a wide base and narrow top; Country B's has a narrow base and a wide middle/top. Which country most likely has the higher birth rate?
- 29th December 2022A shop's till receipts have mode 5 pounds, median 8 pounds, mean 15 pounds. State the type of skew and give a reason.
- 30th December 2022A random sample of 50 packets of crisps from a production run of 8000 found 3 were underweight. Estimate how many packets in the whole run are underweight.
- 31st December 2022Find the range of 22, 9, 31, 14, 6, 27.