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  1. 1st March 2011The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  2. 2nd March 2011A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  3. 3rd March 2011Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  4. 4th March 2011P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  5. 5th March 2011Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  6. 6th March 2011Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  7. 7th March 2011Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  8. 8th March 2011A 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).
  9. 9th March 2011Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  10. 10th March 2011A 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?
  11. 11th March 2011A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  12. 12th March 2011IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  13. 13th March 2011A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  14. 14th March 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.
  15. 15th March 2011A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  16. 16th March 2011P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  17. 17th March 2011A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  18. 18th March 2011Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  19. 19th March 2011Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  20. 20th March 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).
  21. 21st March 2011A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  22. 22nd March 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?
  23. 23rd March 2011A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  24. 24th March 2011A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  25. 25th March 2011A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  26. 26th March 2011A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  27. 27th March 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.
  28. 28th March 2011P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  29. 29th March 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.
  30. 30th March 2011Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  31. 31st March 2011A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.

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