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June 2006 5-a-day

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June 2006

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  1. 1st June 2006What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  2. 2nd June 2006A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  3. 3rd June 2006A 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.
  4. 4th June 2006A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  5. 5th June 2006Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  6. 6th June 2006The 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.
  7. 7th June 2006The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  8. 8th June 2006A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  9. 9th June 2006Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  10. 10th June 2006P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  11. 11th June 2006Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  12. 12th June 2006Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  13. 13th June 2006Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  14. 14th June 2006A 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).
  15. 15th June 2006Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  16. 16th June 2006A 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?
  17. 17th June 2006A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  18. 18th June 2006IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  19. 19th June 2006A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  20. 20th June 2006Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  21. 21st June 2006A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  22. 22nd June 2006P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  23. 23rd June 2006A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  24. 24th June 2006Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  25. 25th June 2006Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  26. 26th June 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).
  27. 27th June 2006A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  28. 28th June 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?
  29. 29th June 2006A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  30. 30th June 2006A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?

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