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March 2021 5-a-day

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March 2021

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  1. 1st March 2021A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  2. 2nd March 2021Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  3. 3rd March 2021Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  4. 4th March 2021A 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?
  5. 5th March 2021A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  6. 6th March 2021A 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.
  7. 7th March 2021A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  8. 8th March 2021For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  9. 9th March 2021A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  10. 10th March 2021A 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.
  11. 11th March 2021In 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.
  12. 12th March 2021Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  13. 13th March 2021What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  14. 14th March 2021What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  15. 15th March 2021A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  16. 16th March 2021A 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.
  17. 17th March 2021A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  18. 18th March 2021Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  19. 19th March 2021The 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.
  20. 20th March 2021The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  21. 21st March 2021A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  22. 22nd March 2021Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  23. 23rd March 2021P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  24. 24th March 2021Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  25. 25th March 2021Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  26. 26th March 2021Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  27. 27th March 2021A 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).
  28. 28th March 2021Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  29. 29th March 2021A 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?
  30. 30th March 2021A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  31. 31st March 2021IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.

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