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January 2003 5-a-day

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January 2003

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  1. 1st January 2003P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  2. 2nd January 2003A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  3. 3rd January 2003Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  4. 4th January 2003A 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.
  5. 5th January 2003A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  6. 6th January 2003A 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.
  7. 7th January 2003A 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.
  8. 8th January 2003A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  9. 9th January 2003Out 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.
  10. 10th January 2003A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  11. 11th January 2003A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  12. 12th January 2003Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  13. 13th January 2003Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  14. 14th January 2003A 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?
  15. 15th January 2003A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  16. 16th January 2003A 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.
  17. 17th January 2003A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  18. 18th January 2003For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  19. 19th January 2003A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  20. 20th January 2003A 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.
  21. 21st January 2003In 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.
  22. 22nd January 2003Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  23. 23rd January 2003What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  24. 24th January 2003What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  25. 25th January 2003A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  26. 26th January 2003A 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.
  27. 27th January 2003A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  28. 28th January 2003Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  29. 29th January 2003The 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.
  30. 30th January 2003The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  31. 31st January 2003A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.

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