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February 2013 5-a-day

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February 2013

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  1. 1st February 2013Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  2. 2nd February 2013A 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?
  3. 3rd February 2013A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  4. 4th February 2013A 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.
  5. 5th February 2013A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  6. 6th February 2013For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  7. 7th February 2013A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  8. 8th February 2013A 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.
  9. 9th February 2013In 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.
  10. 10th February 2013Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  11. 11th February 2013What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  12. 12th February 2013What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  13. 13th February 2013A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  14. 14th February 2013A histogram of ages has 5 equal-width bars covering 0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40, 40-50 with heights 3, 7, x, 9, 2, and a total of 35 people. Find x.
  15. 15th February 2013A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  16. 16th February 2013Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  17. 17th February 2013The masses of 500 apples are normally distributed with mean 120 g and standard deviation 10 g. Estimate the number of apples with a mass between 110 g and 130 g.
  18. 18th February 2013The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  19. 19th February 2013A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  20. 20th February 2013Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  21. 21st February 2013P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  22. 22nd February 2013Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  23. 23rd February 2013Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  24. 24th February 2013Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  25. 25th February 2013A 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).
  26. 26th February 2013Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  27. 27th February 2013A 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?
  28. 28th February 2013A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.

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