FIRST TERM EXAMINATIONS - JANUARY 2023
NAME: __________________
YEAR 12 _____ Teacher’s Name:______________
Candidates may use any calculator permitted by Pearson regulations.
INSTRUCTIONS
• Answer all questions and ensure that your answers to parts of questions are
clearly labelled.
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided – there may be more space than
you need.
• You should show sufficient working to make your methods clear. Answers
without working may not gain full credit.
• Values from statistical tables should be quoted in full. If a calculator is used
instead of tables the value should be given to an equivalent degree of accuracy.
• Inexact answers should be given to three significant figures unless otherwise
stated.
INFORMATION
• A booklet ‘Mathematical Formulae and Statistical Tables’ is provided.
• There are 7 questions in this question paper.
The total mark for this paper is 50.
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets – use this as a guide as to
how much time to spend on each question.
ADVICE
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Check your answers if you have time at the end.
• If you change your mind about an answer cross it out and put your new answer and any
working out underneath.
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1. An estate agent is studying the cost of office space in London. He takes a random sample
of 90 offices and calculates the cost, £x per square foot.
His results are given in the table below.
A histogram is drawn for these data and the bar representing 50 ≤ x < 60 is 2cm wide
and 8cm high.
(a) Calculate the width and height of the bar representing 20 ≤ x < 40 (3)
(b) Use linear interpolation to estimate the median cost. (2)
(c) Estimate the mean cost of office space for these data. (2)
(d) Estimate the standard deviation for these data. (2)
(Total for Question 1 is 9 marks)
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2. Sean is studying the time it takes members of his company to travel to the office.
He stands by the door to the office from 08:40 to 08:50 one morning and asks workers, as
they arrive, how long their journey was.
a) What sampling method did he use? Mention one disadvantage in this method. (2)
b) State and briefly describe an alternative method of non-random sampling Sean could
have used to obtain a sample of 40 workers. (2)
St Mary's primary school has 29 girls and 21 boys in year 6. The head teacher wants
20 students to complete a survey and decides to take a sample stratified by gender.
c) Calculate how many boys and girls the head teacher should include in the sample. (2)
(Total for Question 2 is 6 marks)
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3. One end A of an elastic string was attached to a horizontal bar and a mass, m grams, was
attached to the other end B. The mass was suspended freely and allowed to settle
vertically below A. The length AB, l mm was recorded for various masses as follows.
m 100 200 300 400 500 600
l 228 236 256 278 285 301
a) Draw a scatter diagram to show the above information. (3)
The equation of the regression line is l = 211 + 0.153m
b) Give the interpretations for the slope of the line and the intercept of the line on the l -axis.
(2)
c) Estimate the length of the string when a mass of 360 grams is attached at B. (1)
d) State a physical limitation that there might be in using your equation to estimate the
length of the string when a mass of 1200 grams is attached at B. (1)
(Total for Question 3 is 7 marks)
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4. In a factory, three machinists, Amy, Brad and Ceri, are used to sew shirts.
Amy sews 40% of the shirts.
Brad sews 35% of the shirts.
Ceri sews the rest of the shirts.
It is known that 5% of the shirts sewn by Amy are faulty, 2% of the shirts sewn by Brad are
faulty and 3% of the shirts sewn by Ceri are faulty.
a) Draw a tree diagram to illustrate all the possible outcomes and
associated probabilities. (3)
A shirt is selected at random.
b) Calculate the probability that the shirt is sewn by Brad and is not faulty. (2)
c) Calculate the probability that the shirt is faulty. (3)
(Total for Question 4 is 8 marks)
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5. In a large restaurant an average of 3 out of every 5 customers ask for water with their
meal.
A random sample of 10 customers is selected.
a. Find the probability that exactly 6 ask for water with their meal. (2)
b. Find the probability that less than 9 ask for water with their meal. (2)
A second random sample of 50 customers is selected.
c. Find the smallest value of 𝑛 such that
𝑃(𝑋 < 𝑛) ≥ 0.9
where the random variable 𝑋 represents the number of these customers who ask
for water. (3)
(Total for Question 5 is 7 marks)
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6. The Venn diagram shows three events A, B and C, where p, q, r, s and t are probabilities.
P(A) = 0.5, P(B) = 0.6 and P(C) = 0.25 and the events B and C are independent.
(a) Find the value of p and the value of q. (2)
(b) Find the value of r. (2)
(c) Hence write down the value of s and the value of t. (2)
(d) State, giving a reason, whether or not the events A and B are independent. (2)
(Total for Question 6 is 8 marks)
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7. The discrete random variable D has the following probability distribution
where k is a constant.
600
(a) Show that the value of k is
137
(2)
The random variables D1 and D2 are independent and each have the same distribution as D.
(b) Find P (D1 + D2 = 80)
Give your answer to 3 significant figures.
(3)
(Total for Question 7 is 5 marks)
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