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May 2026 5-a-day

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  1. 1st May 2026Student 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?
  2. 2nd May 2026A coin is flipped twice. Find the probability of getting two heads.
  3. 3rd May 2026A pyramid is roughly the same width all the way up, with only a slightly narrower top. What does this suggest?
  4. 4th May 2026A distribution has mean = mode = median. What does this suggest about its shape?
  5. 5th May 2026A 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.
  6. 6th May 2026A set of 7 numbers has a mean of 12. Find the total of all 7 numbers.
  7. 7th May 2026A population has 200 members and a sample of 20 is needed using systematic sampling. Find the sampling interval.
  8. 8th May 2026What is meant by the independent variable in an experiment?
  9. 9th May 2026Why must class intervals in a grouped frequency table not overlap?
  10. 10th May 2026Chart 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?
  11. 11th May 2026Using the pupils in the previous question, find P(likes football only).
  12. 12th May 2026A line of best fit passes through the points (0, 4) and (10, 24). Find its gradient.
  13. 13th May 2026What word describes a situation where one variable directly causes a change in another?
  14. 14th May 2026The 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.
  15. 15th May 2026Give one reason a researcher would carry out a pilot survey.
  16. 16th May 2026Is 'favourite ice cream flavour' qualitative or quantitative data?
  17. 17th May 2026Group A has 10 items with mean 50. Group B has 5 items with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
  18. 18th May 2026The frequencies for four categories are 8, 5, 12, 3. What is the total number of data items?
  19. 19th May 2026A composite bar for Year 7 shows Boys 20 stacked below Girls, with a total bar height of 45. How many girls are there?
  20. 20th May 2026A back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram compares two classes' test scores. For stem 7, Class A (left side) has 3 leaves and Class B (right side) has 4 leaves. Which class had more students scoring in the 70s?
  21. 21st May 2026On a cumulative frequency graph, what do you plot each cumulative frequency against?
  22. 22nd May 2026Give one limitation of choropleth maps.
  23. 23rd May 2026In a data set of 200 values, at what position, counting from the smallest, would you expect to find the 25th percentile?
  24. 24th May 2026Which formula finds the highest value in the range E1 to E30?
  25. 25th May 2026A researcher draws a bar chart from her results. Which stage of the cycle is this?
  26. 26th May 2026Give one advantage of using a questionnaire to collect data.
  27. 27th May 2026Find the median of: 4, 7, 9, 12, 15.
  28. 28th May 2026A pictogram key shows 1 symbol = 10 pupils. A row has 3 full symbols. How many pupils does the row represent?
  29. 29th May 2026Two fair six-sided dice are rolled and the scores are multiplied together. How many cells are in the sample space diagram?
  30. 30th May 2026What value do you plot on the horizontal axis for each class of a frequency polygon?
  31. 31st May 2026A time series of monthly temperatures shows one May with a temperature far below every other May on record. What might this value be called?

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