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  1. 1st July 2017A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  2. 2nd July 2017IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  3. 3rd July 2017A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  4. 4th July 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.
  5. 5th July 2017A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  6. 6th July 2017P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  7. 7th July 2017A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  8. 8th July 2017Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  9. 9th July 2017Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  10. 10th July 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).
  11. 11th July 2017A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  12. 12th July 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?
  13. 13th July 2017A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  14. 14th July 2017A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  15. 15th July 2017A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  16. 16th July 2017A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  17. 17th July 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.
  18. 18th July 2017P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  19. 19th July 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.
  20. 20th July 2017Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  21. 21st July 2017A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  22. 22nd July 2017A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  23. 23rd July 2017State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  24. 24th July 2017Box 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?
  25. 25th July 2017Using 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.
  26. 26th July 2017Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  27. 27th July 2017For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  28. 28th July 2017A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  29. 29th July 2017A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  30. 30th July 2017P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  31. 31st July 2017The table shows ages, in years, of 50 people at a gym: 10-20 (freq 6), 20-30 (freq 18), 30-40 (freq 16), 40-50 (freq 10). Estimate the mean age.

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