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September 2024 5-a-day

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September 2024

30 sheets · 150 questions · Higher tier

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  1. 1st September 2024A class interval has width 5 and frequency 20. Find the frequency density.
  2. 2nd September 2024A data set has Q1 = 20 and Q3 = 32. Is a value of 55 an outlier? Use the 1.5 x IQR rule.
  3. 3rd September 2024P(A) = 1/2, P(B) = 1/3, P(A and B) = 1/6. Find P(A or B).
  4. 4th September 2024The 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.
  5. 5th September 2024What is wrong with the question 'How old are you and do you smoke?'
  6. 6th September 2024Find the 3-point moving average of 10, 14, 18.
  7. 7th September 2024P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.35, where A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  8. 8th September 2024A histogram has bars of equal width. True or false: the height of each bar represents the frequency for that class.
  9. 9th September 2024Name the five values needed to draw a box plot.
  10. 10th September 2024A 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.
  11. 11th September 2024A normally distributed data set has mean 40 and standard deviation 3. Estimate the percentage of values above 43.
  12. 12th September 2024A 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.
  13. 13th September 2024A 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.
  14. 14th September 2024A data set has Q1 = 12 and Q3 = 20. Calculate the IQR and the upper outlier boundary.
  15. 15th September 2024Out 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.
  16. 16th September 2024A class interval 0-10 has frequency 6. Find frequency x midpoint.
  17. 17th September 2024A survey question offers the response options 'Never, Sometimes, Always'. State one improvement that could be made.
  18. 18th September 2024Find the 4-point moving average of 12, 16, 20, 10.
  19. 19th September 2024Are 'rolling an even number' and 'rolling a 5' on a normal six-sided dice mutually exclusive?
  20. 20th September 2024A 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?
  21. 21st September 2024A box plot shows minimum 4 and maximum 36, with median 20. State the range of the data.
  22. 22nd September 2024A 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.
  23. 23rd September 2024A normal distribution has mean 50 and standard deviation 5. What range of values contains approximately 68% of the data?
  24. 24th September 2024For a data set, Sxy = 45 and Sxx = 60. Find the gradient b of the regression line.
  25. 25th September 2024A histogram bar has height (frequency density) 2.5 and covers the interval 0-8. Find the frequency it represents.
  26. 26th September 2024A 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.
  27. 27th September 2024In 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.
  28. 28th September 2024Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  29. 29th September 2024What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  30. 30th September 2024What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?

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