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October 2024

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  1. 1st October 2024A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  2. 2nd October 2024A 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.
  3. 3rd October 2024A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  4. 4th October 2024Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  5. 5th October 2024The 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.
  6. 6th October 2024The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  7. 7th October 2024A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  8. 8th October 2024Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  9. 9th October 2024P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  10. 10th October 2024Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  11. 11th October 2024Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  12. 12th October 2024Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  13. 13th October 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).
  14. 14th October 2024Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  15. 15th October 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?
  16. 16th October 2024A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  17. 17th October 2024IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  18. 18th October 2024A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  19. 19th October 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.
  20. 20th October 2024A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  21. 21st October 2024P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  22. 22nd October 2024A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  23. 23rd October 2024Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  24. 24th October 2024Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  25. 25th October 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).
  26. 26th October 2024A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  27. 27th October 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?
  28. 28th October 2024A data set of ages is: 12, 13, 12, 14, -12, 13. Which value is clearly an error, and why?
  29. 29th October 2024A normal distribution has mean 100 and standard deviation 15. What range contains approximately 95% of the data?
  30. 30th October 2024A PMCC value of r = -0.2 is calculated. Describe the correlation.
  31. 31st October 2024A class interval 10-30 (width 20) has frequency density 3. Find the frequency.

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