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January 2023 5-a-day

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January 2023

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  1. 1st January 2023A gym has 900 members. A sample of 45 is needed using systematic sampling, with a random start of 12. Find the 4th person selected.
  2. 2nd January 2023In a medicine trial, half the patients receive the real drug and half receive a dummy pill, and neither the patients nor the doctors know who received which until after results are recorded. What is this type of trial called, and why is it used?
  3. 3rd January 2023Using the data in the previous question (12, 18, 25, 31, 9, 22, 15), state the frequency of the interval 20 <= x < 30.
  4. 4th January 2023A sector has an angle of 72 degrees in a pie chart representing 50 people in total. How many people does this sector represent?
  5. 5th January 2023In a Venn diagram, what does the region where two circles overlap represent?
  6. 6th January 2023A scatter graph shows points that generally fall from top left to bottom right. What type of correlation does this show?
  7. 7th January 2023A study finds a positive correlation between shoe size and reading ability in primary school children. Does having big feet cause better reading?
  8. 8th January 2023A researcher finds rs = 0.99 between a town's number of ice cream vans and its number of sunburn cases, and concludes the vans cause sunburn. Explain why this conclusion may be wrong.
  9. 9th January 2023A tick-box question has the options '0-10', '10-20', '20-30'. What problem would a pilot survey likely identify with this?
  10. 10th January 2023Is 'number of pets owned' discrete or continuous data?
  11. 11th January 2023Group A has 6 items with mean 15. Group B has 9 items with mean 25. Find the combined mean.
  12. 12th January 2023A frequency table for test scores out of 10 shows: score 6 has frequency 5, score 7 has frequency 8, score 8 has frequency x, score 9 has frequency 3, and the total frequency is 25. Find x.
  13. 13th January 2023Two composite bars compare tea and coffee drinkers: Monday has a total of 60 drinks, of which 35 are tea; Tuesday has a total of 72 drinks, of which 40 are tea. On which day was a greater proportion of drinks tea?
  14. 14th January 2023A stem-and-leaf diagram has the row '1 | 4 7 9' with key '1|4 means 14'. What three data values does this row represent?
  15. 15th January 2023Explain why a value read from a cumulative frequency graph, such as the median, is described as an estimate rather than an exact value.
  16. 16th January 2023On a choropleth map shaded from white (lowest) to black (highest), a region is coloured mid-grey. What does this suggest about its value?
  17. 17th January 2023A cumulative frequency graph shows that a value of 18 corresponds to a cumulative frequency of 45 out of 60 total data points. Find the percentile.
  18. 18th January 2023A column of 8 test scores is in cells D2 to D9. Give the formula for the mean score.
  19. 19th January 2023Name the first stage of the statistical enquiry cycle.
  20. 20th January 2023State one advantage secondary data has over primary data for a project on rainfall over the last 50 years.
  21. 21st January 2023A data set has Q1 = 22 and Q3 = 35. State the interquartile range and explain what it measures.
  22. 22nd January 2023A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 4 books. A row has 2 and a half symbols. How many books does the row represent?
  23. 23rd January 2023Two fair coins are flipped. How many equally likely outcomes are in the sample space?
  24. 24th January 2023A frequency table has classes 0-10, 10-20, 20-30 with frequencies 3, 9, 6. State all three coordinates for the frequency polygon.
  25. 25th January 2023On a time series graph, what is always plotted on the horizontal axis?
  26. 26th January 2023Group A has a risk of 0.08 of an event happening; Group B has a risk of 0.02. Find the relative risk of Group A compared with Group B.
  27. 27th January 2023A bag has 3 red, 4 green and 5 blue balls (12 total). One ball is removed at random and is blue. A second ball is then removed. Find P(second ball is red given the first ball was blue).
  28. 28th January 2023A 3D pie chart is used to show market share. Explain why 3D charts can be misleading.
  29. 29th January 2023A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  30. 30th January 2023Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  31. 31st January 2023Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.

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