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January 2005 5-a-day

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January 2005

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  1. 1st January 2005Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  2. 2nd January 2005Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  3. 3rd January 2005A 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?
  4. 4th January 2005A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  5. 5th January 2005A 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.
  6. 6th January 2005A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  7. 7th January 2005For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  8. 8th January 2005A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  9. 9th January 2005A 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.
  10. 10th January 2005In 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.
  11. 11th January 2005Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  12. 12th January 2005What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  13. 13th January 2005What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  14. 14th January 2005A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  15. 15th January 2005A 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.
  16. 16th January 2005A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  17. 17th January 2005Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  18. 18th January 2005The 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.
  19. 19th January 2005The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  20. 20th January 2005A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  21. 21st January 2005Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  22. 22nd January 2005P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  23. 23rd January 2005Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  24. 24th January 2005Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  25. 25th January 2005Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  26. 26th January 2005A 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).
  27. 27th January 2005Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  28. 28th January 2005A 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?
  29. 29th January 2005A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  30. 30th January 2005IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  31. 31st January 2005A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.

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