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January 2019 5-a-day

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January 2019

31 sheets · 155 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st January 2019Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  2. 2nd January 2019A 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 January 2019A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  4. 4th January 2019A 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 January 2019A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  6. 6th January 2019For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  7. 7th January 2019A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  8. 8th January 2019A 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 January 2019In 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 January 2019Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  11. 11th January 2019What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  12. 12th January 2019What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  13. 13th January 2019A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  14. 14th January 2019A 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 January 2019A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  16. 16th January 2019Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  17. 17th January 2019The 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 January 2019The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  19. 19th January 2019A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  20. 20th January 2019Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  21. 21st January 2019P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  22. 22nd January 2019Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  23. 23rd January 2019Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  24. 24th January 2019Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  25. 25th January 2019A 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 January 2019Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  27. 27th January 2019A 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 January 2019A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  29. 29th January 2019IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  30. 30th January 2019A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  31. 31st January 2019Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.

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