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September 2004 5-a-day

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September 2004

30 sheets · 150 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st September 2004Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  2. 2nd September 2004Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  3. 3rd September 2004Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  4. 4th September 2004A 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).
  5. 5th September 2004Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  6. 6th September 2004A 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?
  7. 7th September 2004A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  8. 8th September 2004IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  9. 9th September 2004A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  10. 10th September 2004Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  11. 11th September 2004A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  12. 12th September 2004P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  13. 13th September 2004A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  14. 14th September 2004Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  15. 15th September 2004Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  16. 16th September 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).
  17. 17th September 2004A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  18. 18th September 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?
  19. 19th September 2004A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  20. 20th September 2004A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  21. 21st September 2004A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  22. 22nd September 2004A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  23. 23rd September 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.
  24. 24th September 2004P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  25. 25th September 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.
  26. 26th September 2004Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  27. 27th September 2004A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  28. 28th September 2004A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  29. 29th September 2004State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  30. 30th September 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?

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