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  1. 1st August 2024Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  2. 2nd August 2024A 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).
  3. 3rd August 2024Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  4. 4th August 2024A 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?
  5. 5th August 2024A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  6. 6th August 2024IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  7. 7th August 2024A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  8. 8th August 2024Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  9. 9th August 2024A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  10. 10th August 2024P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  11. 11th August 2024A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  12. 12th August 2024Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  13. 13th August 2024Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  14. 14th August 2024P(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).
  15. 15th August 2024A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  16. 16th August 2024Box plot A has a median of 50 and box plot B has a median of 42, for the same type of data. What does this tell you about the two data sets?
  17. 17th August 2024A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  18. 18th August 2024A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  19. 19th August 2024A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  20. 20th August 2024A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.
  21. 21st August 2024A cumulative frequency graph for 100 test scores gives Q1 = 40, median = 58, Q3 = 70, minimum = 5, maximum = 98. Determine which of the minimum and maximum should be plotted as individual outliers.
  22. 22nd August 2024P(A) = 0.6, P(A or B) = 0.75, and P(A and B) = 0.2. Find P(B).
  23. 23rd August 2024The table shows weights, in kg, of 20 parcels: 0-5 (freq 4), 5-10 (freq 10), 10-15 (freq 6). Estimate the mean weight.
  24. 24th August 2024Rewrite the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' so that they no longer overlap.
  25. 25th August 2024A series of 4-point moving averages is 45, 48, 52, 55. Describe the trend shown by these values.
  26. 26th August 2024A bag has only red, blue and green counters. P(red) = 0.5 and P(blue) = 0.2. Find P(green).
  27. 27th August 2024State one reason why a histogram has no gaps between its bars, unlike a bar chart.
  28. 28th August 2024Box 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?
  29. 29th August 2024Using 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.
  30. 30th August 2024Test scores are normally distributed with mean 65 and standard deviation 8. Estimate the percentage of students scoring between 65 and 81.
  31. 31st August 2024For a data set, Sxy = 30, Sxx = 50, Syy = 40. Calculate the PMCC to 3 significant figures.

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