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August 2021 5-a-day

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August 2021

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  1. 1st August 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.
  2. 2nd August 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.
  3. 3rd August 2021Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  4. 4th August 2021What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  5. 5th August 2021What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  6. 6th August 2021A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  7. 7th August 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.
  8. 8th August 2021A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  9. 9th August 2021Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  10. 10th August 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.
  11. 11th August 2021The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  12. 12th August 2021A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  13. 13th August 2021Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  14. 14th August 2021P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  15. 15th August 2021Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  16. 16th August 2021Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  17. 17th August 2021Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  18. 18th August 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).
  19. 19th August 2021Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  20. 20th August 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?
  21. 21st August 2021A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  22. 22nd August 2021IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  23. 23rd August 2021A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  24. 24th August 2021Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  25. 25th August 2021A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  26. 26th August 2021P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  27. 27th August 2021A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  28. 28th August 2021Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  29. 29th August 2021Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  30. 30th August 2021P(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).
  31. 31st August 2021A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.

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