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February 2010 5-a-day

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February 2010

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  1. 1st February 2010P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  2. 2nd February 2010The 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.
  3. 3rd February 2010What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  4. 4th February 2010Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  5. 5th February 2010P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  6. 6th February 2010A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  7. 7th February 2010Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  8. 8th February 2010A 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.
  9. 9th February 2010A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  10. 10th February 2010A 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.
  11. 11th February 2010A 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.
  12. 12th February 2010A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  13. 13th February 2010Out of 50 people surveyed, 20 like tea, 25 like coffee, and 10 like both. Find the probability that a randomly chosen person likes tea or coffee.
  14. 14th February 2010A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  15. 15th February 2010A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  16. 16th February 2010Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  17. 17th February 2010Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  18. 18th February 2010A histogram for exam scores has bars of equal width 10 marks, covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, with heights 2, 8, 15, 5. How many students took the exam?
  19. 19th February 2010A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  20. 20th February 2010A data set has lower quartile Q1 = 20 and upper quartile Q3 = 32. Using the rule 'outlier if more than 1.5 x IQR beyond Q1 or Q3', find the outlier boundaries.
  21. 21st February 2010A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  22. 22nd February 2010For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  23. 23rd February 2010A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  24. 24th February 2010A cumulative frequency table gives Q1 = 18, median = 25, Q3 = 34 for the ages of 60 people at a conference. Calculate the IQR and state the upper outlier boundary.
  25. 25th February 2010In a group of 40 students, 22 play football, 18 play rugby, and P(football or rugby) = 0.85. Find the number of students who play both sports.
  26. 26th February 2010Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  27. 27th February 2010What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  28. 28th February 2010What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?

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