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February 2017 5-a-day

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February 2017

28 sheets · 140 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st February 2017Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  2. 2nd February 2017Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  3. 3rd February 2017Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  4. 4th February 2017A 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).
  5. 5th February 2017Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  6. 6th February 2017A 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?
  7. 7th February 2017A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  8. 8th February 2017IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  9. 9th February 2017A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  10. 10th February 2017Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  11. 11th February 2017A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  12. 12th February 2017P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  13. 13th February 2017A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  14. 14th February 2017Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  15. 15th February 2017Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  16. 16th February 2017P(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).
  17. 17th February 2017A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  18. 18th February 2017Box 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?
  19. 19th February 2017A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  20. 20th February 2017A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  21. 21st February 2017A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  22. 22nd February 2017A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  23. 23rd February 2017A 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.
  24. 24th February 2017P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  25. 25th February 2017The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  26. 26th February 2017Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  27. 27th February 2017A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  28. 28th February 2017A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).

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