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  1. 1st July 2013A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  2. 2nd July 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.
  3. 3rd July 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.
  4. 4th July 2013Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  5. 5th July 2013What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  6. 6th July 2013What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  7. 7th July 2013A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  8. 8th July 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.
  9. 9th July 2013A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  10. 10th July 2013Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  11. 11th July 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.
  12. 12th July 2013The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  13. 13th July 2013A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  14. 14th July 2013Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  15. 15th July 2013P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  16. 16th July 2013Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  17. 17th July 2013Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  18. 18th July 2013Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  19. 19th July 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).
  20. 20th July 2013Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  21. 21st July 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?
  22. 22nd July 2013A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  23. 23rd July 2013IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  24. 24th July 2013A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  25. 25th July 2013Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  26. 26th July 2013A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  27. 27th July 2013P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  28. 28th July 2013A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  29. 29th July 2013Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  30. 30th July 2013Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  31. 31st July 2013P(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).

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