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September 2000 5-a-day

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September 2000

30 sheets · 150 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st September 2000Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  2. 2nd September 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?
  3. 3rd September 2000A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  4. 4th September 2000A data set has lower quartile Q1 = 20 and upper quartile Q3 = 32. Using the rule 'outlier if more than 1.5 x IQR beyond Q1 or Q3', find the outlier boundaries.
  5. 5th September 2000A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  6. 6th September 2000For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  7. 7th September 2000A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  8. 8th September 2000A cumulative frequency table gives Q1 = 18, median = 25, Q3 = 34 for the ages of 60 people at a conference. Calculate the IQR and state the upper outlier boundary.
  9. 9th September 2000In a group of 40 students, 22 play football, 18 play rugby, and P(football or rugby) = 0.85. Find the number of students who play both sports.
  10. 10th September 2000Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  11. 11th September 2000What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  12. 12th September 2000What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  13. 13th September 2000A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  14. 14th September 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.
  15. 15th September 2000A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  16. 16th September 2000Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  17. 17th September 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.
  18. 18th September 2000The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  19. 19th September 2000A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  20. 20th September 2000Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  21. 21st September 2000P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  22. 22nd September 2000Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  23. 23rd September 2000Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  24. 24th September 2000Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  25. 25th September 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).
  26. 26th September 2000Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  27. 27th September 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?
  28. 28th September 2000A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  29. 29th September 2000IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  30. 30th September 2000A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.

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