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February 2006

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  1. 1st February 2006Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  2. 2nd February 2006P(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).
  3. 3rd February 2006A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  4. 4th February 2006Box 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?
  5. 5th February 2006A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  6. 6th February 2006A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  7. 7th February 2006A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  8. 8th February 2006A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  9. 9th February 2006A 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.
  10. 10th February 2006P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  11. 11th February 2006The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  12. 12th February 2006Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  13. 13th February 2006A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  14. 14th February 2006A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  15. 15th February 2006State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  16. 16th February 2006Box 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?
  17. 17th February 2006Using 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.
  18. 18th February 2006Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  19. 19th February 2006For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  20. 20th February 2006A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  21. 21st February 2006A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  22. 22nd February 2006P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  23. 23rd February 2006The 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.
  24. 24th February 2006What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  25. 25th February 2006Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  26. 26th February 2006P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  27. 27th February 2006A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  28. 28th February 2006Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.

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