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January 1995 5-a-day

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January 1995

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  1. 1st January 1995A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  2. 2nd January 1995Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  3. 3rd January 1995P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  4. 4th January 1995Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  5. 5th January 1995Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  6. 6th January 1995Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  7. 7th January 1995A game has four mutually exclusive outcomes: win, draw, lose, abandoned. P(win) = 0.45, P(draw) = 0.2, P(abandoned) = 0.05. Find P(lose).
  8. 8th January 1995Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  9. 9th January 1995A box plot for 40 values has lower quartile 15 and upper quartile 25. Roughly how many of the 40 values lie between 15 and 25?
  10. 10th January 1995A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  11. 11th January 1995IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  12. 12th January 1995A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  13. 13th January 1995Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  14. 14th January 1995A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  15. 15th January 1995P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  16. 16th January 1995A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  17. 17th January 1995Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  18. 18th January 1995Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  19. 19th January 1995P(rain) = 0.3 and P(snow) = 0.05 on a given day, and rain and snow are mutually exclusive that day. Find P(rain or snow).
  20. 20th January 1995A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  21. 21st January 1995Box plot A has a median of 50 and box plot B has a median of 42, for the same type of data. What does this tell you about the two data sets?
  22. 22nd January 1995A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  23. 23rd January 1995A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  24. 24th January 1995A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  25. 25th January 1995A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  26. 26th January 1995A cumulative frequency graph for 100 test scores gives Q1 = 40, median = 58, Q3 = 70, minimum = 5, maximum = 98. Determine which of the minimum and maximum should be plotted as individual outliers.
  27. 27th January 1995P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  28. 28th January 1995The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  29. 29th January 1995Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  30. 30th January 1995A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  31. 31st January 1995A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).

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