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January 2011

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  1. 1st January 2011Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  2. 2nd January 2011A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  3. 3rd January 2011P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  4. 4th January 2011A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  5. 5th January 2011Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  6. 6th January 2011Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  7. 7th January 2011P(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).
  8. 8th January 2011A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  9. 9th January 2011Box 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?
  10. 10th January 2011A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  11. 11th January 2011A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  12. 12th January 2011A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  13. 13th January 2011A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  14. 14th January 2011A 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.
  15. 15th January 2011P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  16. 16th January 2011The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  17. 17th January 2011Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  18. 18th January 2011A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  19. 19th January 2011A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  20. 20th January 2011State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  21. 21st January 2011Box 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?
  22. 22nd January 2011Using 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.
  23. 23rd January 2011Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  24. 24th January 2011For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  25. 25th January 2011A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  26. 26th January 2011A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  27. 27th January 2011P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  28. 28th January 2011The 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.
  29. 29th January 2011What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  30. 30th January 2011Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  31. 31st January 2011P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).

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