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October 2023 5-a-day

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October 2023

31 sheets · 155 questions · Foundation tier

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  1. 1st October 2023Shop 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?
  2. 2nd October 2023The 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.
  3. 3rd October 2023A fair six-sided dice is rolled. What is P(rolling a 5)?
  4. 4th October 2023A spinner is spun 80 times and lands on blue 20 times. Estimate the probability of landing on blue.
  5. 5th October 2023Three branches from a single point are labelled 0.4, 0.35 and x. Find x.
  6. 6th October 2023Country 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?
  7. 7th October 2023A shop's till receipts have mode 5 pounds, median 8 pounds, mean 15 pounds. State the type of skew and give a reason.
  8. 8th October 2023A 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.
  9. 9th October 2023Find the range of 22, 9, 31, 14, 6, 27.
  10. 10th October 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.
  11. 11th October 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?
  12. 12th October 2023Using the data in the previous question (12, 18, 25, 31, 9, 22, 15), state the frequency of the interval 20 <= x < 30.
  13. 13th October 2023A sector has an angle of 72 degrees in a pie chart representing 50 people in total. How many people does this sector represent?
  14. 14th October 2023In a Venn diagram, what does the region where two circles overlap represent?
  15. 15th October 2023A scatter graph shows points that generally fall from top left to bottom right. What type of correlation does this show?
  16. 16th October 2023A study finds a positive correlation between shoe size and reading ability in primary school children. Does having big feet cause better reading?
  17. 17th October 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.
  18. 18th October 2023A tick-box question has the options '0-10', '10-20', '20-30'. What problem would a pilot survey likely identify with this?
  19. 19th October 2023Is 'number of pets owned' discrete or continuous data?
  20. 20th October 2023Group A has 6 items with mean 15. Group B has 9 items with mean 25. Find the combined mean.
  21. 21st October 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.
  22. 22nd October 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?
  23. 23rd October 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?
  24. 24th October 2023Explain why a value read from a cumulative frequency graph, such as the median, is described as an estimate rather than an exact value.
  25. 25th October 2023On a choropleth map shaded from white (lowest) to black (highest), a region is coloured mid-grey. What does this suggest about its value?
  26. 26th October 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.
  27. 27th October 2023A column of 8 test scores is in cells D2 to D9. Give the formula for the mean score.
  28. 28th October 2023Name the first stage of the statistical enquiry cycle.
  29. 29th October 2023State one advantage secondary data has over primary data for a project on rainfall over the last 50 years.
  30. 30th October 2023A data set has Q1 = 22 and Q3 = 35. State the interquartile range and explain what it measures.
  31. 31st October 2023A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 4 books. A row has 2 and a half symbols. How many books does the row represent?

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