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October 2023 5-a-day

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October 2023

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  1. 1st October 2023A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  2. 2nd October 2023A 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.
  3. 3rd October 2023In 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.
  4. 4th October 2023Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  5. 5th October 2023What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  6. 6th October 2023What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  7. 7th October 2023A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  8. 8th October 2023A 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.
  9. 9th October 2023A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  10. 10th October 2023Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  11. 11th October 2023The 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.
  12. 12th October 2023The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  13. 13th October 2023A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  14. 14th October 2023Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  15. 15th October 2023P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  16. 16th October 2023Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  17. 17th October 2023Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  18. 18th October 2023Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  19. 19th October 2023A 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).
  20. 20th October 2023Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  21. 21st October 2023A 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?
  22. 22nd October 2023A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  23. 23rd October 2023IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  24. 24th October 2023A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  25. 25th October 2023Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  26. 26th October 2023A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  27. 27th October 2023P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  28. 28th October 2023A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  29. 29th October 2023Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  30. 30th October 2023Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  31. 31st October 2023P(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).

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