Chapter 16 Interpreting and discussing results

70 marks from 70 questions

Question 1
The frequency diagram shows the heights of the learners in a Stage 8 class.

Heights of learners in Stage 8 class

What fraction of the class is between 120 and 160 cm tall?

Question 2
Below are the marks from a maths test.

Score Frequency

27 7

28

29 4

30 12

If half of the learners scored 28, enter the missing frequency.

Question 3
A class was asked to record how many children are in each of their families.

Number of children per family

How many children are represented in this table?

Question 4
A housing development has 52 families living in it. Jai surveyed the number of TVs in each household
for a school assignment. He displayed the results in this frequency diagram.

Number of TVs

There were a total of 117 televisions in the development. Calculate the missing values for scores 0
and 2.
Score 0 = Score 2 =
Question 5
The frequency diagram shows Jora’s scores in the games of golf she has played this year.

Golf scores

In what percentage of these games did Jora score more than 82?
%

Question 6
The frequency diagram shows the scores out of 10 that Mr O’s class achieved in their latest spelling
test.

Score in spelling test

What was the mean score?

Give your answer to one decimal place.
Question 7

The frequency diagram shows the heights of the learners in Stage 8. Eighteen learners were between
150 and 160 cm tall.
What percentage of the year group is this?
Give your answer to one decimal place.
Question 8
The frequency diagram shows the heights of the learners in a Stage 8 class.

Heights of learners in Stage 8

In which interval is the median height?

a. 100 < h ≤ 120 cm

b. 120 < h ≤ 140 cm
c. 140 < h ≤ 160 cm
d. 160 < h ≤ 180 cm

Question 9

Tickets to this play cost $32 for adults and $18 for children.
What is the total cost of all the tickets for the Saturday performances?
Ticket sales = $
Question 10
By what percentage did the sales of Buzz Electronics rise between February and July?
Give your answer to one decimal place.

Question 11
The graph shows the decline in the world’s cheetah population since 1900.

By what percentage did the world cheetah population fall between 1900 and 2000?
%
Question 12

In 1995 Jai bought a new car for $24 000. Compare the value of the new car to its value after 15 years
and choose all the statements below that best describe the car’s value.

a. The value has fallen by approximately 63%.

b. The car is worth only one quarter of its original value.

c. The car is worth only one half of its original value.

d. The ratio of the original value to its value after 15 years is 8 : 3.

Question 13

By what percentage has the car depreciated after five years? Answer to the nearest whole percent.

The car depreciated by % from its original value.

Question 14
The graphs show the annual profits of two companies since 2010.

What was the precentage difference in profit between the two companies in 2013?
Give your answer to one decimal place.
%

Question 15
The graphs show carbon emissions of four countries since 1850.

Which country has shown the smallest rise in carbon emissions since 1850?
Country
Question 16
The graphs show the annual profits of two companies since 2010.

The two companies compare their profits for the year 2017.
What was the percentage difference between the profits of the two companies in that year, as a
percentage of the profit of company B?
Give your answer to one decimal place.
%

Question 17

The stem-and-leaf diagram shows the number of matches found in boxes of a particular brand.

Key: 3 | 9 means 39 matches

What is the probability that a box picked at random had 48 matches? Give your answer as a fraction
in its simplest form.
Question 18

In a running race, the winner is given a time of zero.

The finishing times for the other runners are recorded as the number of minutes after the winner that
they finished the run.

Key: 0 | 3 means 3 minutes

If the first competitor completed the run in 42 minutes, how long did it take the last competitor?

hours minutes

Question 19

In a running race, the winner is given a time of zero.

The finishing times for the other runners are recorded as the number of minutes after the winner that
they finished the run.

Key: 0 | 3 means 3 minutes

If the first competitor ran the race in 42 minutes and the race started at 10.45 a.m., how many
competitors had finished the race by midday?
Question 20

In a running race, the winner is given a time of zero.

The finishing times for the other runners are recorded as the number of minutes after the winner that
they finished the run.

Key: 0 | 3 means 3 minutes

If the first competitor ran the race in 42 minutes and the race started at 10:45 am, at what time did
the last competitor complete the race?

: pm

Question 21

The stem-and-leaf diagram shows the number of minutes that some trains were delayed during one
hour.

Key: 1 | 2 means 12 minutes

What was the probability that a train would be delayed for more than hour? Answer as a
simple fraction.
Question 22

The scores for a team are arranged into this stem-and-leaf diagram.
The sum of the scores for the team is 1030.

What are the two missing scores? Write the smallest score first and include the stems.

and

Question 23

$14 400 is spent by a club as shown in the pie chart.

$1000 is spent on balls. How much will be spent on equipment and toys?

Question 24

Petrol price shares

The pie chart shows the share of petrol costs for each sector.
The government reduces its share by 3 cents per litre.
The shares for the other sectors remain the same.
What is the new angle for the government taxes sector?

Give your answer to the nearest degree.

Total cost = $1.38/L

Question 25
Last week I noted the birds that visited my garden and recorded my results in this graph.

There were three king parrots. What was the total number of birds that came to my garden?

Question 26

Groups of animals

Total number of animals = 512

If there are five times as many cows as horses, how many horses are there?
Question 27

Petrol price shares

Total cost = $1.38/L

How much does the oil producer make from a sale of 12 million litres?

Question 28
Sasha counted and recorded the number of each colour in a packet of sweets.

Colour of sweet Number

Red 13

Yellow 8

Brown 7

Blue 5

Green 16

Orange 11

Sasha realises that if she makes the angle for brown sweets measure 56°, then she can eat some of the
other sweets.
How many of the other coloured sweets can Sasha eat so that the angle for the brown sector is 56°?
Question 29

Petrol price shares

Total cost = $1.38/L

How much does the government make from a sale of 12 million litres?
$

Question 30

The pie chart shows the proportions of crops grown on a farm.

If the sector for cotton represents 400 tonnes, how many tonnes of crops were grown altogether?
tonnes
Question 31

Two shops compare their sales in June.

Shop A has total sales of $4000.
Both shops have the same value of sales for kitchen equipment.
What is the value of the total sales for both shops in June?
$

Question 32

A survey was completed by a sample of people in the USA and the UK to find out their favourite type
of holiday.
The UK survey asked a sample of 500 people.
The number of people whose favourite type of holiday was a city break was the same for both the USA
and UK samples.
How many people in the USA said that their favourite type of holiday was an activity holiday?
people
Question 33
Arun and Zara go to different schools.
They record the number of minutes it takes them to travel to school each day for a month.
Arun thinks that they should use a scatter graph to compare their results.
Why is a scatter graph not a suitable choice of graph for this data?
a. Their times will not be related to each other
b. They do not go to the same school
c. The data is about time

Question 34
The number of people of each age group in two towns is recorded and the results are compared.
Which of these methods would not be suitable for representing the data?
a. Compound bar chart
b. Pie chart
c. Stem-and-leaf diagram
d. Time series graph

Question 35
A wildlife centre has two groups of baby hedgehogs.
One group is kept indoors and the other group is kept outside.
The weight and length of each hedgehog are recorded every week for two months.
The centre wants to know whether the hedgehogs are developing better indoors or outside.
Which method of representing the data should they use to find this out?
a. Bar chart
b. Venn diagram
c. Time series graph
d. Infographic
Question 36
Shen collects data from the learners in his class by asking them two questions:
Do you play computer games every day?
Do you play a musical instrument?
He collates the data and represents the information in a diagram.
Which diagram would be best for representing this data?
a. Pie chart
b. Carroll diagram
c. Frequency diagram
d. Scatter graph

Question 37

Score (x) Frequency (f)

21 1

22 7

23 2

24 7

25 3

The mode of this set of data is:

a) 7

b) 22 only

c) 24 only

d) 22 and 24

Question 38

At Onick's house, there are eight rooms and the average area of each room is 7.5 m 2.
The total area of the house is m2 .

Question 39
Rana had a mean mark of 72 for three exams.
If she scored 60 and 69 for two of the exams then her mark on the third exam must have been:

a) higher than 72

b) exactly 72

c) lower than 72
Question 40
Bea records the number of minutes a group of buses is late. She finds that every bus comes on time
except one, which was 10 minutes late.
Select all true statements.

a) The mean is 5 minutes late.

b) The mode is 0 minutes late.

c) The median is 5 minutes late.

d) The range is 10 minutes late.

Question 41
A set of six whole numbers is arranged in ascending order.
If the mean of this data is 16, and the data has no mode, what are the two missing numbers?
Enter them in ascending order.
7 12 19 23

Question 42
Samer is a university learner who picks apples in an orchard during the holidays. On four days in a
week he picked a mean of 840 apples per day.
How many apples must Samer pick on the fifth day to get a mean of 900 apples?

Question 43
Ambia calculated the mode, median and range for this set of data.
110 114 114 115 116 117 118
She then added one more piece of data, 90. When Ambia re-calculates the mode, median and range
with this new piece of data added:

a. only the mode and median will change

b. only the median and range will change

c. only the mode and range will change

d. the mode, median and range will all change

e. the only change will be in the range

Question 44
Hani records the hours of homework he does five nights of the week.

Monday 3 hours

Tuesday 4 hours

Wednesday 2 hours

Thursday 1.5 hours

His mean number of hours is 2.5 hours.

How many hours did he spend on homework on Friday?

Question 45
The mean of five scores is 37.
A sixth score of 43 is added.
What is the new mean?

Question 46
A sample is taken of science test scores from two different classes in the same school stage.
The test was out of 20.
Class A: 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 18, 20
Class B: 5, 6, 6, 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 19
The class with the larger mean score and the smaller range will have done better in the science test.
Which class did better is the science test?
a. Class A
b. Class B
Question 47
The number of tomatoes grown on each plant is recorded for two different types of tomato plant.
Type A

Number
of 345 6 7 89101112
tomatoes

Frequency 255111256 1 0 0

Type B

Number
of 3456789101112
tomatoes

Frequency 0055356 2 0 1

A farmer wishes to grow the more reliable type of tomato with the larger number of tomatoes on each
plant.
Which type of tomato plant should the farmer choose?
a. Type A
b. Type B

Question 48
The number of hours of sunshine was recorded on different days in two towns.
Town A: 8, 5, 14, 17, 18, 11, 17, 15, 14, 17, 11, 15
Town B: 0, 8, 15, 4, 5, 16, 5, 9, 3, 6, 10, 9, 5, 18, 7, 4
Why might the results for the two towns be different?
Select all reasons.
a. The data was collected at different times of the year.
b. The towns are in different countries.
c. It might be cold in one of the towns.
d. It might be raining on some days.
Question 49
Below are the class marks from a test.

Score Frequency

27 12

28 10

29 2

30 8

First find the total number of people who sat the test. Then calculate the total of all the scores (eg if
two people scored 29 then these scores add to 58).
Finally, calculate the class average correct to one decimal place.
Average mark = (to one decimal place )

Question 50
Which relationship does this scatter graph show?

a. The lower the temperature the more visitors there were to the beach.
b. The higher the temperature the more visitors there were to the beach.
c. There is no relationship between the temperature and the number of visitors to the beach.
Question 51

Key: 1 | 6 means 16 marks

The stem-and-leaf diagram shows marks in a test.

Three people scored the same mark. What was that mark?

Question 52

Below are the marks in a maths competition.

Key: 1 | 1 means 11 marks

Complete the frequency table for the grouped data.

Group Frequency

0−9 3

10−19

20−29 3

30−39

40−49

50−59
Question 53

Key: 1 | 6 means 16 marks

The stem-and-leaf diagram shows marks in a test.

How many learners got more than 36 marks?

Question 54

Key: 1 | 1 means a value of 11

The mean is the sum of all values divided by the number of scores.

What is the mean value of this data, correct to one decimal place?

Average =
Question 55

Key: 4 | 0 = 40 marks

This stem-and-leaf plot shows marks in a history test out of 100.

The range of the marks is:

Question 56
Sasha has calculated the angles needed to draw a pie chart for the different numbers of coloured lollies
in a jar.

Angle on sector
Colour of lollies Number of lollies
graph

Red 13 78°

Yellow 8 48°

Brown 7 42°

Blue 5 30°

Green 16 76°

Orange 11 66°

To check, she added the angles and found they added to 340°.
Which one of her calculations is incorrect?

a. Red b. Blue c. Green d. Orange

Question 57

60 people were asked which breakfast they preferred. How many chose baked beans and eggs?

Question 58
The pie chart shows what percentage of pizza topping each ingredient makes up.

What percentage of the pizza topping is mushrooms?

%
Question 59

Expenditure for Redhill High

Approximately how much more is spent on salaries than on stationery?

a. $45 000
b. $30 000
c. One third more
d. Three times

Question 60

Today, 24 birds visited my garden.

Representing this information in a

pie chart, what size angle would
represent the Indian king parrots?

Question 61
In five games of basketball, Orhan scored 15, 12, 5, 11 and 12 points.
Orhan's average (mean) score for these games was:
Question 62

Score (x) Frequency (f)

14 1

15 2

16 4

17 5

18 1

The highest frequency in this table is .

The mode for this set of data is .

Question 63
1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9
If the score 5 is changed to 6, this would change the:

a. mode

b. median

c. range

d. mean

Question 64
The mean of five scores is 17.
A sixth score of 17 is now included. Which statement is true?

a. The mean will go up.

b. The mean will go down.

c. The mean will remain 17.

Question 65
Six people were placed in order of descending heights. Their heights were 162 cm, 160 cm, 160 cm,
155 cm, 154 cm and 151 cm.
The median height of these five people is cm
Question 66
Lilli scores 17, 13 and 15 in three mathematics tests. Selim scores 14, 12 and 18 in the same tests.
Which learner got the highest mean?

a. Lilli

b. Selim

c. They both got the same mean.

Question 67
In nine games of basketball, Eva had a mean of 13 points per game. What was Eva's total number of
points for all the nine games?
Total points =

Question 68
A sample is taken from maths test scores from two different classes in the same school stage.
The test was out of 20.
Class A: 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20
Class B: 6, 7. 7, 9, 14, 15, 20
Which class has the most varied results?
a. Class A
b. Class B

Question 69
The number of potatoes grown on each plant is recorded for two different types of potato plant.
Type A

Number of potatoes345 6 789101112

Frequency 25811653 1 0 0

Type B

Number of potatoes3456789101112

Frequency 0235677 8 6 1

Which of these statements are true?

Select all correct answers.
a. Type A has a higher mean than type B.
b. Type B has a higher median than type A.
c. Type B is more varied than type A.
d. Type A is more varied than type B.
Question 70
The number of hours of sunshine was recorded on different days in two towns.
Town A: 8, 5, 14, 17, 18, 11, 17, 15, 14, 17, 11, 15
Town B: 0, 8, 15, 4, 5, 16, 5, 9, 3, 6, 10, 9, 5, 18, 7, 4
Enter the letter of the town to complete these sentences.
Town has a higher average number of hours of sunshine.
Town has a lower variation in the number of hours of sunshine.