Unit 10 - Exercises and Word Problems (Statistics + Probability)
Unit 10 - Exercises and Word Problems (Statistics + Probability)
Unit 10 - Exercises and Word Problems (Statistics + Probability)
STATISTICS
1. Clasifica los siguientes caracteres estadsticos en cualitativos o cuantitativos. a) El nmero de aprobados de un curso. b) Peso de los recin nacidos en un hospital. c) Color de las manzanas de una frutera. d) Precio de los distintos modelos de iPad que hay en una tienda. e) Lugar de nacimiento de los miembros de una familia. 2. Indica si los siguientes caracteres son discretos o continuos. a) Peso de los melones de un puesto del mercado. b) Libros ledos en un ao por varios alumnos de 1D. c) Goles marcados por Espaa en la final del mundial. d) Altura de las alumnas de 1C. 3. Los alumnos de 1ESO de bilingismo han ido a visitar el Jardn Botnico de Madrid y tienen que tomar datos para un trabajo de estadstica en el que estudien estas caractersticas: a) Caracteres estadsticos cualitativos. b) Variables estadsticas discretas. c) Variables estadsticas contnuas. Da tres ejemplos para cada uno de los apartados. 4. Classify the following statistical data in categorical or numerical. a) Number of hairs in your head. b) Weight of a just born kid. c) Color of the apples in a shop. d) Age of the people in your class. d) Color of the hair of the people in your class. 5. Indicate whether the following statistical data is discrete or continuous. a) Weight of water melons in a supermarket. b) Books read during a year by different kids. c) Goals scored by Cristiano Ronaldo in the last ten seasons.
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6. Place the following statistical data in the right column of the following table:
STATISTICAL DATA Categorical Discrete Numerical Continuous
a) Weight of a person. b) Number of heart beats per minute. c) Job. d) Eyes color. e) Number of people in a class. f) Number of employees of a company. g) Favorite sport. h) Distance from your home to school. i) Number of times you went to the movies last year. j) Favorite football team.
a) Crea una tabla de frecuencias completa. b) Representa los datos con un diagrama de barras, un polgono de frecuencias y diagrama de sectores. c) Calcula las medidas de centralizacin (media, mediana y moda) y el rango. 8. La duracin, en minutos, de 20 llamadas telefnicas ha sido: 8, 4, 7, 4, 8, 6, 5, 4, 7, 8, 8, 4, 7, 4, 8, 6, 5, 4, 7, 8 a) Crea una tabla de frecuencias completa. b) Representa los datos con un diagrama de barras, un polgono de frecuencias y diagrama de sectores. c) Calcula las medidas de centralizacin (media, mediana y moda) y el rango. 9. These are the answers of 30 people to the question How many kids have you got? 1, 0, 4, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 5, 1, 0, 1, 4, 2, 2, 1, 5, 4, 0, 2, 1, 1, 0, 2, 3, 1, 0 , 5, 6. a) Create a complete frequency table. b) Depict the data using a bar chart, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the average ratios (mean, median and mode) and the range.
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10. Use the following data (marks obtained by a group of students) to: 9, 1, 6, 8, 2, 10, 5, 3, 8, 5, 8, 7, 5, 7, 3, 4, 5, 3, 5, 6, 9, 9, 6, 5, 8, 7, 4, 4, 8, 2. a) Create a complete frequency table. b) Express the results in a bar chart, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the average ratios (mean, median and mode) and the range. 11. The marks obtained by 40 students on an exam are: 2, 8, 6, 9, 5, 5, 6, 4, 6, 8, 6, 2, 5, 3, 4, 9, 1, 4, 5, 3, 6, 1, 4, 8, 7, 9, 9, 8, 3, 6, 5, 6, 8, 4, 10, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10. a) Create a complete frequency table. b) Express the results in a bar chart, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the average ratios (mean, median and mode) and the range. 12. 30 students have been asked about the number of brothers and sisters they are in their families. These are the answers: 1, 2, 1, 3, 6, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2. a) Create a complete frequency table. b) Plot the results in a bar chart, a line graph and a pie chart. c) Calculate the average ratios (mean, median and mode) and the range. 13. In a class of 25 pupils over a period of 30 school sessions, following you have the numbers of absences for each pupil: 0, 1, 0, 0, 5, 18, 3, 2, 2, 3, 0, 1, 1, 4, 3, 2, 5, 20, 0, 1, 2, 24, 2, 3 a) Calculate the mean number of absences per pupil. b) Find the median. c) How many pupils have a number of absences above the mean, and how many are below it? 14. Gary has a Saturday job. He earns 3.20 euros an hour. He thinks that most of his friends earn more. Here you have a list of how much an hour his friends are paid. Lisa 3.10 Helen 3.51 Scott 4.00 Kirsty 3.75 Kate 3.75 Ben 3.75 Kylie 2.90 Ruksana 3.40
By working out the mean, median and mode for his friends pay, investigate whether Gary is right.
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15. The following bar chart represents the age, in years, of the kids attending a summer camp
a) Which is the mean age of the people attending the summer camp? b) Calculate the mode. c) Which is the median age? d) What is the range of the data? 16. The weights of the players of two football teams, in kilos, are the following: Team A: 72, 65, 71, 56, 59, 63, 61, 70, 52, 49, 68. Team B: 61, 82, 84, 73, 77, 70, 69, 68, 72, 71, 70. a) Calculate the range of each team. b) Calculate the mean of each team.
B. Excellence activities
17. The following set of data represents the number of books read during a year by a group of students. 347821507263546335235476331543549574 a) Which type of statistical data are? b) Create a complete frequency table which allows you to calculate the following questions. c) Calculate the mean and the mode. d) Which is the median for the collected data? e) Depict the data using a bar chart and a line graph. 18. Copy and organize in a complete frequency table the number of vowels of these texts. Pure mathematics is in its way, the poetry of logical ideas (Albert Einstein) The laws of Nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God (Euclids) Draw a bar chart and a pie chart with the data.
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26. A month is chosen from a year. Find the following probabilities: a) Selecting a month ending in Y b) Choosing a month ending in R c) Selecting a month either starting in J or ending with Y d) Selecting a month starting in J and ending in Y e) Selecting a month with 31 days
B. Excellence activities
27. Tenemos una caja con 2 bolas rojas y 3 verdes. Se sacan 3 bolas a la vez y se anotan los colores. a) Escribe el espacio muestral b) Escribe el suceso Salir al menos 2 bolas iguales 28. A day is chosen from a week. Find the following probabilities: a) Choosing Wednesday b) Selecting a day starting in S c) Choosing a day starting with T d) Selecting weekend e) Choosing a day ending in Y 29. Dos nios escriben, cada uno por separado, un nmero con las cifras 4, 6 y 7. Halla la probabilidad de que los dos formen el mismo nmero. 1/6
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