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August 2019 5-a-day

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August 2019

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  1. 1st August 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.
  2. 2nd August 2019A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  3. 3rd August 2019A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  4. 4th August 2019Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  5. 5th August 2019Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  6. 6th August 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?
  7. 7th August 2019A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  8. 8th August 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.
  9. 9th August 2019A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  10. 10th August 2019For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  11. 11th August 2019A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  12. 12th August 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.
  13. 13th August 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.
  14. 14th August 2019Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  15. 15th August 2019What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  16. 16th August 2019What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  17. 17th August 2019A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  18. 18th August 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.
  19. 19th August 2019A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  20. 20th August 2019Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  21. 21st August 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.
  22. 22nd August 2019The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  23. 23rd August 2019A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  24. 24th August 2019Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  25. 25th August 2019P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  26. 26th August 2019Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  27. 27th August 2019Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  28. 28th August 2019Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  29. 29th August 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).
  30. 30th August 2019Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  31. 31st August 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?

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