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March 2019 5-a-day

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March 2019

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  1. 1st March 2019Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  2. 2nd March 2019P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  3. 3rd March 2019A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  4. 4th March 2019Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  5. 5th March 2019A 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.
  6. 6th March 2019A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  7. 7th March 2019A 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.
  8. 8th March 2019A 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.
  9. 9th March 2019A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  10. 10th March 2019Out 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.
  11. 11th March 2019A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  12. 12th March 2019A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  13. 13th March 2019Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  14. 14th March 2019Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  15. 15th March 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?
  16. 16th March 2019A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  17. 17th March 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.
  18. 18th March 2019A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  19. 19th March 2019For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  20. 20th March 2019A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  21. 21st March 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.
  22. 22nd March 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.
  23. 23rd March 2019Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  24. 24th March 2019What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  25. 25th March 2019What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  26. 26th March 2019A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  27. 27th March 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.
  28. 28th March 2019A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  29. 29th March 2019Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  30. 30th March 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.
  31. 31st March 2019The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.

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