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December 2022 5-a-day

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December 2022

31 sheets · 155 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st December 2022Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  2. 2nd December 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.
  3. 3rd December 2022A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  4. 4th December 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.
  5. 5th December 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.
  6. 6th December 2022A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  7. 7th December 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.
  8. 8th December 2022A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  9. 9th December 2022A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  10. 10th December 2022Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  11. 11th December 2022Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  12. 12th December 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?
  13. 13th December 2022A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  14. 14th December 2022A 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.
  15. 15th December 2022A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  16. 16th December 2022For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  17. 17th December 2022A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  18. 18th December 2022A 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.
  19. 19th December 2022In 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.
  20. 20th December 2022Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  21. 21st December 2022What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  22. 22nd December 2022What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  23. 23rd December 2022A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  24. 24th December 2022A 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.
  25. 25th December 2022A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  26. 26th December 2022Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  27. 27th December 2022The 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.
  28. 28th December 2022The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  29. 29th December 2022A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  30. 30th December 2022Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  31. 31st December 2022P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).

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