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1. The mean of the ten numbers listed below is 5.5.
4, 3, a, 8, 7, 3, 9, 5, 8, 3
(a) Find the value of a.
(b) Find the median of these numbers.
(Total 4 marks)
2. The table shows the number of children in 50 families.
Number of Frequency Cumulative
children frequency
1 3 3
2 m 22
3 12 34
4 p q
5 5 48
6 2 50
T
(a) Write down the value of T.
(b) Find the values of m, p and q.
(Total 4 marks)
3. The following table shows the age distribution of teachers who smoke at Laughlin High School.
Ages Number of smokers
20 ≤ x < 30 5
30 ≤ x < 40 4
40 ≤ x < 50 3
50 ≤ x < 60 2
60 ≤ x < 70 3
(a) Calculate an estimate of the mean smoking age.
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(b) On the following grid, construct a histogram to represent this data.
(Total 4 marks)
4. David looked at a passage from a book. He recorded the number of words in each sentence as
shown in the following frequency table.
Class interval Frequency
(number of words) f
1–5 16
6–10 28
11–15 26
16–20 14
21–25 10
26–30 3
31–35 1
36–40 0
41–45 2
(a) Find the class interval in which the median lies.
(b) Estimate, correct to the nearest whole number, the mean number of words in a
sentence.
(Total 4 marks)
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5. For the set of {8, 4, 2, 10, 2, 5, 9, 12, 2, 6}
(a) calculate the mean;
(b) find the mode;
(c) find the median.
(Total 4 marks)
6. The following table shows the times, to the nearest minute, taken by 100 students to complete a
mathematics task.
Time (t) minutes 11–15 16–20 21–25 26–30 31–35 36–40
Number of students 7 13 25 28 20 7
(a) Construct a cumulative frequency table. (Use upper class boundaries 15.5, 20.5 and so
on.)
(2)
(b) On graph paper, draw a cumulative frequency graph, using a scale of 2 cm to represent 5
minutes on the horizontal axis and 1 cm to represent 10 students on the vertical axis.
(3)
(c) Use your graph to estimate
(i) the number of students that completed the task in less than 17.5 minutes;
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(ii) the time it will take for of the students to complete the task.
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(2)
(Total 7 marks)
7. The bar chart below shows the number of people in a selection of families.
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Number of
families 4
0
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Number of people in a family
(a) How many families are represented?
(b) Write down the mode of the distribution.
(c) Find, correct to the nearest whole number, the mean number of people in a family.
(Total 4 marks)
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8. Twenty students are asked how many detentions they received during the previous week at
school. The results are summarised in the frequency distribution table below.
Number of Number of
detentions students fx
x f
0 6
1 3
2 10
3 1
Total 20
(a) What is the modal number of detentions received?
(b) (i) Complete the table.
(ii) Find the mean number of detentions received.
(Total 4 marks)
9. The cumulative frequency graph has been drawn from a frequency table showing the time it
takes a number of students to complete a computer game.
f
200
180
160
Number of students
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60
Time in minutes
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(a) From the graph find
(i) the median time;
(ii) the interquartile range.
(5)
The graph has been drawn from the data given in the table below.
Time in minutes Number of students
0<x≤5 20
5 < x ≤ 15 20
15 < x ≤ 20 p
20 < x ≤ 25 40
25 < x ≤ 35 60
35 < x ≤ 50 q
50 < x ≤ 60 10
(b) Using the graph, find the values of p and q.
(2)
(c) Calculate an estimate of the mean time taken to finish the computer game.
(4)
(Total 11 marks)
10. A group of students has measured the heights of 90 trees. The class calculate the mean height to
be x = 12.4 m with standard deviation s = 5.35 m. One student notices that two of the
measurements, 44.5 m and 43.2 m, are much too big and must be wrong.
(a) How many standard deviations away from the mean of 12.4 is the value 44.5?
The incorrect measurements of 44.5 m and 43.2 m must be removed from the data.
(b) Calculate the new value of x after removing the two unwanted values.
(Total 8 marks)
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11. The cumulative frequency table below shows the ages of 200 students at a college.
Age Number of Students Cumulative Frequency
17 3 3
18 72 75
19 62 137
20 31 m
21 12 180
22 9 189
23–25 5 194
> 25 6 n
(a) What are the values of m and n?
(b) How many students are younger than 20?
(c) Find the value in years of the lower quartile.
(Total 8 marks)
12. The heights of 200 students are recorded in the following table.
Height (h) in cm Frequency
140 ≤ h < 150 2
150 ≤ h < 160 28
160 ≤ h < 170 63
170 ≤ h < 180 74
180 ≤ h < 190 20
190 ≤ h < 200 11
200 ≤ h < 210 2
(a) Write down the modal group.
(1)
(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean and standard deviation of the heights.
(4)
The cumulative frequency curve for this data is drawn below.
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200
180
160
number of students
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210
height in cm
(c) Write down the median height.
(1)
(d) The upper quartile is 177.3 cm. Calculate the interquartile range.
(2)
(e) Find the percentage of students with heights less than 165 cm.
(2)
(Total 10 marks)
13. The weight in kilograms of 12 students in a class are as follows.
63 76 99 65 63 51 52 95 63 71 65 83
(a) State the mode.
(1)
(b) Calculate
(i) the mean weight;
(ii) the standard deviation of the weights.
(2)
When one student leaves the class, the mean weight of the remaining 11 students becomes
70 kg.
(c) Find the weight of the student who left.
(2)
(Total 5 marks)
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14. The following stem and leaf diagram gives the heights in cm of 39 schoolchildren.
Stem Leaf Key 13 2 represents 132 cm.
13 2, 3, 3, 5, 8,
14 1, 1, 1, 4, 5, 5, 9,
15 3, 4, 4, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9,
16 1, 2, 2, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8,
17 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6,
18 0,
(a) (i) State the lower quartile height,
(ii) State the median height
(iii) State the upper quartile height.
(b) Draw a box-and-whisker plot of the data using the axis below.
120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190
height in cm
(Total 6 marks)
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15. (a) The exam results for 100 boys are displayed in the following diagram:
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
(i) Find the range of the results.
(ii) Find the interquartile range.
(iii) Write down the median.
(b) The exam results for 100 girls are displayed in the diagram below:
100
90
number of girls cumulative frequency
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
exam results
(i) Write down the median.
(ii) Find the inter quartile range.
(c) Write down the set of results that are the most spread out and give a reason for your
answer.
(Total 6 marks)
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16. The following results give the heights of sunflowers in centimetres.
180 184 195 177 175 173 169 167 197 173 166 183 161 195 177
192 161 165
Represent the data by a stem and leaf diagram.
(Total 6 marks)
17. Peter has marked 80 exam scripts. He has calculated the mean for the scripts to be 62.1. Maria
has marked 60 scripts with a mean of 56.8.
(a) Peter discovers an error in his marking. He gives two extra each to eleven of the scripts.
Calculate the new value of the mean for Peter's scripts.
(b) After the corrections have been made and the changed, Peter and Maria put all their
scripts together. Calculate the value of the mean for all the scripts.
(Total 4 marks)
18. The number of hours that a professional footballer trains each day in the month of June is
represented in the following histogram.
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number of days
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
number of hours
(a) Write down the modal number of hours trained each day.
(b) Calculate the mean number of hours he trains each day.
(Total 8 marks)
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