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December 2001

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  1. 1st December 2001A 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).
  2. 2nd December 2001Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  3. 3rd December 2001A 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?
  4. 4th December 2001A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  5. 5th December 2001IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  6. 6th December 2001A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  7. 7th December 2001Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  8. 8th December 2001A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  9. 9th December 2001P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  10. 10th December 2001A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  11. 11th December 2001Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  12. 12th December 2001Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  13. 13th December 2001P(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).
  14. 14th December 2001A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  15. 15th December 2001Box 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?
  16. 16th December 2001A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  17. 17th December 2001A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  18. 18th December 2001A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  19. 19th December 2001A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  20. 20th December 2001A 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.
  21. 21st December 2001P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  22. 22nd December 2001The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  23. 23rd December 2001Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  24. 24th December 2001A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  25. 25th December 2001A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  26. 26th December 2001State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  27. 27th December 2001Box 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?
  28. 28th December 2001Using 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.
  29. 29th December 2001Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  30. 30th December 2001For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  31. 31st December 2001A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.

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