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February 2005

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  1. 1st February 2005Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  2. 2nd February 2005A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  3. 3rd February 2005P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  4. 4th February 2005A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  5. 5th February 2005Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  6. 6th February 2005Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  7. 7th February 2005P(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).
  8. 8th February 2005A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  9. 9th February 2005Box 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?
  10. 10th February 2005A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  11. 11th February 2005A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  12. 12th February 2005A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  13. 13th February 2005A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  14. 14th February 2005A 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.
  15. 15th February 2005P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  16. 16th February 2005The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  17. 17th February 2005Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  18. 18th February 2005A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  19. 19th February 2005A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  20. 20th February 2005State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  21. 21st February 2005Box 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?
  22. 22nd February 2005Using 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.
  23. 23rd February 2005Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  24. 24th February 2005For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  25. 25th February 2005A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  26. 26th February 2005A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  27. 27th February 2005P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  28. 28th February 2005The 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.

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