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A random sample of 35 homeowners was taken from each of the villages Greenslax and
penville and their ages were recorded. The results are summarised in the back-to-back
stem and leaf diagram below.
Totals
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Greenslax
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means 37 years for Greenslax and 31 years for Penville
Some of the quartiles for these two distributions are given in the table below.
Greenslax
Penville
Lower quartile, Q,
31
Median, Q,
64
39
55
Upper quartile, P,
(a) Find the value of a and the value of b.
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a value that
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below e,
(b) On the graph paper opposite draw a box plot to
Show clearly any
(c)
represent the data from Penvillq.
outliers.
g)
State the skewness of each distribution. Justifr your answers.
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to the UK in a month' v (1000s)' and the
The table shows data on the nurnber of visitors
for each of 8 months'
amount of money they spent, m (f millions)'
Number of visitors
v (1000s)
Amount of moneY sPent
z (f millions)
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(c)
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(2)
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on v'
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amount of money spent when the number
Use vour answer to part (d) to estimate the
of visitors to the UK in a month is 2 500
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biscuits'
Machine J makes 25% of the
Machine K makes 4570 of the biscuits'
by machine Z'
The rest of the biscuits are made
3olo of the biscuits made
made by machine J ar. e broken'
It is known that 2olo of the biscuits
broken'
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by machine K are t'otto *ii"z'
(a) Draw a hee dia$am
and associated Probabilities
to illustrate all the possible outcomes
A biscuit is selected at random'
(b)
is not broken'
biscuit is made by machine J and
(2)
Calculate the probabihty that the
(c)
the biscuit is broken'
Calculate the probability that
(d)
by machine K'
find the probability that it was not made
Given that the biscuit is broken'
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5,
The discrete random variable Xhas the probability function
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where ft is a constant.
(a)
Show that
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(b) Find the exact value ofF(5).
(c)
(1)
Find the exact value of E(J).
(2)
(d) Find the exact value of E(X2).
(e)
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giving your answer to 3 significant figures'
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6.
The times, in seconds, spent in a queue at a supermarket by 85 randomly selected
customers, are summarised in the table below
Time (seconds)
Number of customers,
0-30
30-60
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60-70
70-80
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100 - 150
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- 80 group.
Use linear interpolation to estimate the median of this distribution'
Given that
by a
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(2)
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A histogram was drawn to represent these data. The 30
bar of width 1.5 cm and height i cm.
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calculate an estimate for
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the mean,
(ii)
the standard deviation,
for the above data.
(3)
One measure of skewness is given by
coefficient of skewness
(d)
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deviation
Evaluate this coeffrcient and comment on the skewness of these data'
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The heights of adult females are normally distributed with mean 160 cm and standard
deviation 8 cm.
the probability that a randomly selected adult female has a height greater than
170 cm.
(3)
(a) Find
Any adult female whose height is greater than 170 cm is defined
as
tall.
An adult female is chosen at random. Given that she is tal1,
(b) find the probability that
she has a height greater than 180 cm'
Half of tall adult females have
(c)
Find the value of
height greater than
ft cm.
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For the events ,4 and B,
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(b) Find P(l u
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B).
(1)
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(c) find P(A
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Determine whether or
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