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March 2012 5-a-day
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- 1st March 2012Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
- 2nd March 2012A 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).
- 3rd March 2012Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
- 4th March 2012A 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?
- 5th March 2012A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
- 6th March 2012IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
- 7th March 2012A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
- 8th March 2012Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
- 9th March 2012A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
- 10th March 2012P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
- 11th March 2012A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
- 12th March 2012Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
- 13th March 2012Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
- 14th March 2012P(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).
- 15th March 2012A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
- 16th March 2012Box 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?
- 17th March 2012A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
- 18th March 2012A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
- 19th March 2012A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
- 20th March 2012A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
- 21st March 2012A 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.
- 22nd March 2012P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
- 23rd March 2012The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
- 24th March 2012Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
- 25th March 2012A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
- 26th March 2012A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
- 27th March 2012State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
- 28th March 2012Box 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?
- 29th March 2012Using 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.
- 30th March 2012Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
- 31st March 2012For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.