Daily Practice · Foundation
September 2024 5-a-day
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Every sheet in September 2024
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- 1st September 2024A sample of 80 light bulbs from a batch of 2000 found 4 were faulty. Estimate the number of faulty bulbs in the whole batch.
- 2nd September 2024The mean of 6 numbers is 15. Five of the numbers are 10, 12, 14, 18, 20. Find the sixth number.
- 3rd September 2024State one advantage of random sampling.
- 4th September 2024What is meant by a control variable?
- 5th September 2024Values of 12, 18, 25, 31, 9, 22, 15 are grouped using intervals 0 <= x < 10, 10 <= x < 20, 20 <= x < 30, 30 <= x < 40. State the frequency of the interval 10 <= x < 20.
- 6th September 2024A pie chart shows four categories with angles 90, 120, 60 and x degrees. Find x.
- 7th September 2024Events A and B are mutually exclusive with P(A) = 0.3 and P(B) = 0.25. Find P(A or B).
- 8th September 2024Explain why estimating a y-value for x = 50 would be unreliable if all the plotted data only covers x-values from 0 to 20.
- 9th September 2024Two variables have a correlation coefficient close to 0. What does this suggest?
- 10th September 2024The Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between temperature and ice cream sales for 8 days is rs = 0.95. Describe the correlation.
- 11th September 2024A pilot survey shows that many respondents left a question blank. What might this suggest about the question?
- 12th September 2024A researcher records the exact temperature of 30 cups of tea to the nearest 0.1 degrees C. State the type of data, giving two features.
- 13th September 2024Group A has 4 items with mean 12. Group B has 4 items with mean 20. Find the combined mean.
- 14th September 2024The number of pets owned by 15 households, recorded as collected, is: 0,1,2,1,0,3,1,2,0,1,1,2,0,1,2. Complete a frequency table for the number of pets and state the total frequency.
- 15th September 2024A bar chart shows 3 bars: Dogs 12, Cats 9, Rabbits 5. How many pets are shown in total?
- 16th September 2024Using the same diagram (0|5 8, 1|2 2 6, 2|1), what is the range?
- 17th September 2024A cumulative frequency graph shows that a cumulative frequency of 45 corresponds to a value of 60 on the horizontal axis, out of 90 total data values. How many data values are above 60?
- 18th September 2024What is the purpose of the key on a choropleth map?
- 19th September 2024A data set of 50 exam scores has the 20th percentile at 42 marks and the 80th percentile at 78 marks. Explain what these two values tell you about the middle 60% of scores.
- 20th September 2024Which spreadsheet formula would you use to find the total of the values in cells B2 to B20?
- 21st September 2024A supermarket wants to know if a new till layout reduces queuing time. Write a suitable statistical question for the start of the enquiry cycle.
- 22nd September 2024Give one disadvantage of an observation study.
- 23rd September 2024Two classes have the same median test score. Class A has IQR = 6 and Class B has IQR = 15. Which class's scores are more consistent, and why?
- 24th September 2024A pictogram has a key of 1 symbol = 4 people. A town has 22 people who play chess. How many symbols, including any part-symbol, should be drawn?
- 25th September 2024Using two fair six-sided dice added together, how many ways can you score a total of 7?
- 26th September 2024Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
- 27th September 2024A company's yearly profits are 10, 12, 11, 15, 14 thousand pounds over five years. Describe the general trend.
- 28th September 2024Out of 200 people who ate a certain meal, 10 became ill. What is the risk of becoming ill, as a fraction in its simplest form?
- 29th September 2024A class has 12 boys and 8 girls. One student, a girl, leaves the room. A second student is then chosen at random from those remaining. Find P(second student chosen is a girl given the first was a girl).
- 30th September 2024A newspaper bar chart showing company profit over 5 years has no vertical axis labels or scale, just bars of different heights. Explain the problem with this.