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February 2007 5-a-day

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February 2007

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  1. 1st February 2007A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  2. 2nd February 2007A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  3. 3rd February 2007A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  4. 4th February 2007A 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.
  5. 5th February 2007P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  6. 6th February 2007The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  7. 7th February 2007Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  8. 8th February 2007A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  9. 9th February 2007A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  10. 10th February 2007State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  11. 11th February 2007Box 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?
  12. 12th February 2007Using 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.
  13. 13th February 2007Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  14. 14th February 2007For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  15. 15th February 2007A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  16. 16th February 2007A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  17. 17th February 2007P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  18. 18th February 2007The 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.
  19. 19th February 2007What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  20. 20th February 2007Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  21. 21st February 2007P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  22. 22nd February 2007A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  23. 23rd February 2007Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  24. 24th February 2007A data set of 10 house prices, in thousands of pounds, has a mean of 210 without an outlier of 900 included, but a mean of 279 when the 900 is included. Explain why a statistician might exclude the 900 when reporting a typical house price.
  25. 25th February 2007A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  26. 26th February 2007A regression line y = 12 + 1.5x is used to predict y when x = 200, even though the original x-values ranged only from 5 to 20. Explain why this prediction may be unreliable.
  27. 27th February 2007A histogram has classes 20-25 (frequency density 4), 25-35 (frequency density 2.4), 35-50 (frequency density 1.6). Find the total number of data values represented.
  28. 28th February 2007A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.

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