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January 2010 5-a-day

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January 2010

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  1. 1st January 2010Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  2. 2nd January 2010A 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?
  3. 3rd January 2010A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  4. 4th January 2010IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  5. 5th January 2010A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  6. 6th January 2010Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  7. 7th January 2010A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  8. 8th January 2010P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  9. 9th January 2010A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  10. 10th January 2010Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  11. 11th January 2010Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  12. 12th January 2010P(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).
  13. 13th January 2010A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  14. 14th January 2010Box 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?
  15. 15th January 2010A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  16. 16th January 2010A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  17. 17th January 2010A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  18. 18th January 2010A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  19. 19th January 2010A 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.
  20. 20th January 2010P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  21. 21st January 2010The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  22. 22nd January 2010Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  23. 23rd January 2010A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  24. 24th January 2010A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  25. 25th January 2010State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  26. 26th January 2010Box 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?
  27. 27th January 2010Using 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.
  28. 28th January 2010Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  29. 29th January 2010For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  30. 30th January 2010A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  31. 31st January 2010A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.

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