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July 2021 5-a-day

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July 2021

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  1. 1st July 2021A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  2. 2nd July 2021State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  3. 3rd July 2021Box 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?
  4. 4th July 2021Using 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.
  5. 5th July 2021Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  6. 6th July 2021For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  7. 7th July 2021A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  8. 8th July 2021A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  9. 9th July 2021P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  10. 10th July 2021The table shows ages, in years, of 50 people at a gym: 10-20 (freq 6), 20-30 (freq 18), 30-40 (freq 16), 40-50 (freq 10). Estimate the mean age.
  11. 11th July 2021What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  12. 12th July 2021Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  13. 13th July 2021P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  14. 14th July 2021A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  15. 15th July 2021Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  16. 16th July 2021A 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.
  17. 17th July 2021A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  18. 18th July 2021A 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.
  19. 19th July 2021A 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.
  20. 20th July 2021A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  21. 21st July 2021Out 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.
  22. 22nd July 2021A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  23. 23rd July 2021A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  24. 24th July 2021Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  25. 25th July 2021Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  26. 26th July 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?
  27. 27th July 2021A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  28. 28th July 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.
  29. 29th July 2021A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  30. 30th July 2021For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  31. 31st July 2021A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.

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