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  1. 1st July 2000What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  2. 2nd July 2000What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  3. 3rd July 2000A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  4. 4th July 2000A histogram of ages has 5 equal-width bars covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50 with heights 3, 7, x, 9, 2, and a total of 35 people. Find x.
  5. 5th July 2000A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  6. 6th July 2000Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  7. 7th July 2000The masses of 500 apples are normally distributed with mean 120 g and standard deviation 10 g. Estimate the number of apples with a mass between 110 g and 130 g.
  8. 8th July 2000The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  9. 9th July 2000A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  10. 10th July 2000Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  11. 11th July 2000P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  12. 12th July 2000Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  13. 13th July 2000Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  14. 14th July 2000Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  15. 15th July 2000A 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).
  16. 16th July 2000Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  17. 17th July 2000A 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?
  18. 18th July 2000A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  19. 19th July 2000IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  20. 20th July 2000A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  21. 21st July 2000Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  22. 22nd July 2000A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  23. 23rd July 2000P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  24. 24th July 2000A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  25. 25th July 2000Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  26. 26th July 2000Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  27. 27th July 2000P(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).
  28. 28th July 2000A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  29. 29th July 2000Box 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?
  30. 30th July 2000A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  31. 31st July 2000A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?

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