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June 2015 5-a-day

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June 2015

30 sheets · 150 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st June 2015What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  2. 2nd June 2015Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  3. 3rd June 2015P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  4. 4th June 2015A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  5. 5th June 2015Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  6. 6th June 2015A data set of 10 house prices, in thousands of pounds, has a mean of 210 without an outlier of 900 included, but a mean of 279 when the 900 is included. Explain why a statistician might exclude the 900 when reporting a typical house price.
  7. 7th June 2015A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  8. 8th June 2015A regression line y = 12 + 1.5x is used to predict y when x = 200, even though the original x-values ranged only from 5 to 20. Explain why this prediction may be unreliable.
  9. 9th June 2015A histogram has classes 20-25 (frequency density 4), 25-35 (frequency density 2.4), 35-50 (frequency density 1.6). Find the total number of data values represented.
  10. 10th June 2015A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  11. 11th June 2015Out of 50 people surveyed, 20 like tea, 25 like coffee, and 10 like both. Find the probability that a randomly chosen person likes tea or coffee.
  12. 12th June 2015A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  13. 13th June 2015A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  14. 14th June 2015Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  15. 15th June 2015Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  16. 16th June 2015A 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?
  17. 17th June 2015A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  18. 18th June 2015A 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.
  19. 19th June 2015A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  20. 20th June 2015For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  21. 21st June 2015A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  22. 22nd June 2015A 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.
  23. 23rd June 2015In 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.
  24. 24th June 2015Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  25. 25th June 2015What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  26. 26th June 2015What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  27. 27th June 2015A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  28. 28th June 2015A 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.
  29. 29th June 2015A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  30. 30th June 2015Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?

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