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January 2000 5-a-day

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January 2000

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  1. 1st January 2000P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  2. 2nd January 2000The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  3. 3rd January 2000Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  4. 4th January 2000A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  5. 5th January 2000A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  6. 6th January 2000State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  7. 7th January 2000Box plot A has an interquartile range of 8 and box plot B has an interquartile range of 15. What does this tell you about the spread of the middle 50 percent of each data set?
  8. 8th January 2000Using the boundaries from the previous question (2 and 50), state whether a value of 55 in the data set would be classed as an outlier.
  9. 9th January 2000Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  10. 10th January 2000For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  11. 11th January 2000A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  12. 12th January 2000A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  13. 13th January 2000P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  14. 14th January 2000The table shows ages, in years, of 50 people at a gym: 10-20 (freq 6), 20-30 (freq 18), 30-40 (freq 16), 40-50 (freq 10). Estimate the mean age.
  15. 15th January 2000What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  16. 16th January 2000Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  17. 17th January 2000P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  18. 18th January 2000A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  19. 19th January 2000Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  20. 20th January 2000A data set of 10 house prices, in thousands of pounds, has a mean of 210 without an outlier of 900 included, but a mean of 279 when the 900 is included. Explain why a statistician might exclude the 900 when reporting a typical house price.
  21. 21st January 2000A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  22. 22nd January 2000A regression line y = 12 + 1.5x is used to predict y when x = 200, even though the original x-values ranged only from 5 to 20. Explain why this prediction may be unreliable.
  23. 23rd January 2000A histogram has classes 20-25 (frequency density 4), 25-35 (frequency density 2.4), 35-50 (frequency density 1.6). Find the total number of data values represented.
  24. 24th January 2000A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  25. 25th January 2000Out of 50 people surveyed, 20 like tea, 25 like coffee, and 10 like both. Find the probability that a randomly chosen person likes tea or coffee.
  26. 26th January 2000A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  27. 27th January 2000A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  28. 28th January 2000Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  29. 29th January 2000Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  30. 30th January 2000A histogram for exam scores has bars of equal width 10 marks, covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, with heights 2, 8, 15, 5. How many students took the exam?
  31. 31st January 2000A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.

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