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  1. 1st May 2025In 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.
  2. 2nd May 2025Find the midpoint of the class interval 10-20.
  3. 3rd May 2025What is wrong with the question 'Do you not think school lunches are too expensive?'
  4. 4th May 2025What does a moving average smooth out in seasonal data, and what does the result reveal?
  5. 5th May 2025A card is drawn at random from a normal 52-card pack. Find P(drawing a King or a Queen).
  6. 6th May 2025A 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.
  7. 7th May 2025A box plot has lower quartile 10 and upper quartile 22. Find the interquartile range.
  8. 8th May 2025Test scores out of 50 are: 32, 28, 35, 30, 29, 31, 95. Which score cannot be correct, and why?
  9. 9th May 2025The 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.
  10. 10th May 2025The equation of a regression line is y = 3 + 2x. Find y when x = 5.
  11. 11th May 2025A frequency table has intervals 0-10 (frequency 15) and 10-15 (frequency 20). Calculate the frequency density for each.
  12. 12th May 2025Using the data in the previous question, a delegate aged 65 attends. Is this delegate's age an outlier? Explain.
  13. 13th May 2025P(A) = 0.4, P(B) = 0.3, P(A and B) = 0.1. Find P(A or B).
  14. 14th May 2025Find the midpoint of the class interval 30-50.
  15. 15th May 2025Explain why a pilot survey should be carried out before the full survey is sent out.
  16. 16th May 2025Find the 3-point moving average of 14, 18, 20.
  17. 17th May 2025A 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).
  18. 18th May 2025Using the same histogram, how many students scored between 10 and 30 marks?
  19. 19th May 2025A 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?
  20. 20th May 2025A set of weekly pocket money amounts, in pounds, is: 5, 6, 5, 500, 7, 6. Identify the likely outlier.
  21. 21st May 2025IQ scores are normally distributed with mean 100 and standard deviation 15. Out of 1000 people, estimate how many have an IQ above 130.
  22. 22nd May 2025A PMCC value of r = 0.85 is calculated for two variables. Describe the strength and direction of the correlation.
  23. 23rd May 2025Two intervals both have frequency 30: one has width 5 and one has width 15. Explain which interval has the taller histogram bar, and why.
  24. 24th May 2025A data set has Q1 = 15 and Q3 = 45. Calculate both outlier boundaries.
  25. 25th May 2025P(A) = 0.55 and P(B) = 0.4. Events A and B are mutually exclusive. Find P(A or B).
  26. 26th May 2025A table has class intervals with frequency x midpoint totals of 45, 120, 90 and frequencies 5, 8, 6. Find the estimated mean.
  27. 27th May 2025Give one reason why the response options '0-5, 5-10, 10-15' are a poor choice for hours of homework.
  28. 28th May 2025Find the 4-point moving average of 8, 12, 16, 20.
  29. 29th May 2025P(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).
  30. 30th May 2025A histogram has unequal class widths. Explain why the height of a bar can no longer be read directly as the frequency.
  31. 31st May 2025Box 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?

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