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September 2019 5-a-day

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September 2019

30 sheets · 150 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st September 2019A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  2. 2nd September 2019IQ 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 September 2019A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  4. 4th September 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.
  5. 5th September 2019A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  6. 6th September 2019P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  7. 7th September 2019A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  8. 8th September 2019Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  9. 9th September 2019Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  10. 10th September 2019P(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 September 2019A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  12. 12th September 2019Box 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 September 2019A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  14. 14th September 2019A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  15. 15th September 2019A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  16. 16th September 2019A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  17. 17th September 2019A 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 September 2019P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  19. 19th September 2019The 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 September 2019Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  21. 21st September 2019A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  22. 22nd September 2019A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  23. 23rd September 2019State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  24. 24th September 2019Box 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 September 2019Using 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 September 2019Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  27. 27th September 2019For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  28. 28th September 2019A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  29. 29th September 2019A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  30. 30th September 2019P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).

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