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December 2002

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  1. 1st December 2002A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  2. 2nd December 2002Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  3. 3rd December 2002A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  4. 4th December 2002P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  5. 5th December 2002A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  6. 6th December 2002Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  7. 7th December 2002Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  8. 8th December 2002P(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).
  9. 9th December 2002A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  10. 10th December 2002Box 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?
  11. 11th December 2002A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  12. 12th December 2002A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  13. 13th December 2002A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  14. 14th December 2002A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  15. 15th December 2002A 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.
  16. 16th December 2002P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  17. 17th December 2002The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  18. 18th December 2002Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  19. 19th December 2002A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  20. 20th December 2002A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  21. 21st December 2002State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  22. 22nd December 2002Box 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?
  23. 23rd December 2002Using 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.
  24. 24th December 2002Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  25. 25th December 2002For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  26. 26th December 2002A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  27. 27th December 2002A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  28. 28th December 2002P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  29. 29th December 2002The 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.
  30. 30th December 2002What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  31. 31st December 2002Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.

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