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February 2022 5-a-day

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February 2022

28 sheets · 140 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st February 2022A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  2. 2nd February 2022A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  3. 3rd February 2022State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  4. 4th February 2022Box 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?
  5. 5th February 2022Using 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.
  6. 6th February 2022Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  7. 7th February 2022For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.
  8. 8th February 2022A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  9. 9th February 2022A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  10. 10th February 2022P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  11. 11th February 2022The 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.
  12. 12th February 2022What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  13. 13th February 2022Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  14. 14th February 2022P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  15. 15th February 2022A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  16. 16th February 2022Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  17. 17th February 2022A 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.
  18. 18th February 2022A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  19. 19th February 2022A 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.
  20. 20th February 2022A 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.
  21. 21st February 2022A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  22. 22nd February 2022Out 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.
  23. 23rd February 2022A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  24. 24th February 2022A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  25. 25th February 2022Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  26. 26th February 2022Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  27. 27th February 2022A 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?
  28. 28th February 2022A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.

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