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  1. 1st July 2004A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  2. 2nd July 2004P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  3. 3rd July 2004A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  4. 4th July 2004Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  5. 5th July 2004Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  6. 6th July 2004P(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).
  7. 7th July 2004A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  8. 8th July 2004Box 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?
  9. 9th July 2004A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  10. 10th July 2004A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  11. 11th July 2004A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  12. 12th July 2004A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  13. 13th July 2004A 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.
  14. 14th July 2004P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  15. 15th July 2004The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  16. 16th July 2004Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  17. 17th July 2004A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  18. 18th July 2004A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  19. 19th July 2004State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  20. 20th July 2004Box 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?
  21. 21st July 2004Using 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.
  22. 22nd July 2004Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  23. 23rd July 2004For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  24. 24th July 2004A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  25. 25th July 2004A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  26. 26th July 2004P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  27. 27th July 2004The 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.
  28. 28th July 2004What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  29. 29th July 2004Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  30. 30th July 2004P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  31. 31st July 2004A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.

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