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.

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(a) ..
(b) ..
(Total 4 marks)

A marine biologist records as a frequency distribution the lengths (L), measured to the
nearest centimetre, of 100 mackerel. The results are given in the table below.

Length of mackerel Number of

(L cm) mackerel
27 < L 29 2
29 < L 31 4
31 < L 33 8
33 < L 35 21
35 < L 37 30
37 < L 39 18
39 < L 41 12
41 < L 43 5
100

(a) Construct a cumulative frequency table for the data in the table.
(2)

(b) Draw a cumulative frequency curve.

Hint: Plot your cumulative frequencies at the top of each interval.

(3)

(c) Use the cumulative frequency curve to find an estimate, to the nearest cm for
 (i) the median length of mackerel;
(2)

(ii) the interquartile range of mackerel length.

(2)
(Total 9 marks)

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.

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(a) ..
(b) ..
(Total 4 marks)
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.

(b) On the following grid, construct a histogram to represent this data.

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(a) ..
(Total 4 marks)
A group of 25 females were asked how many children they each had. The results are
shown in the histogram below.

Number of Children per Female

10
9
8
7
6
5
Frequency
4
3
2
1
0
0 1 2 3 4
Number of Children

(a) Show that the mean number of children per female is 1.4.
(2)

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.

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(a) ..
(b) ..................................................................
(c) ..........

(Total 4 marks)

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.

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(a) ..
(b) (ii) ...
(Total 4 marks)

The graph below shows the cumulative frequency for the yearly incomes of 200 people.
 200

180

160

140

120

100
Cumulative
frequency 80

60

40

20

0
0 5000 10 000 15 000 20 000 25 000 30 000 35 000
Annual income in British pounds

Use the graph to estimate

(a) the number of people who earn less than 5000 British pounds per year;

(b) the median salary of the group of 200 people;

(c) the lowest income of the richest 20% of this group.

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(a) ..
(b) ..................................................................
(c) ..........

(Total 4 marks)

The table below shows the percentage, to the nearest whole number, scored by candidates
in an examination.

Marks (%) 09 1019 2029 3039 4049 5059 6069 7079 8089 90100
 Frequency 2 7 8 13 24 30 6 5 3 2

The following is the cumulative frequency table for the marks.

Marks (%) Cumulative frequency

< 9.5 2
< 19.5 9
< 29.5 s
< 39.5 30
< 49.5 54
< 59.5 84
< 69.5 t
< 79.5 95
< 89.5 98
< 100 100

(a) Calculate the values of s and of t.

(2)

(b) Using a scale of 1 cm to represent 10 marks on the horizontal axis, and 1 cm

to represent 10 candidates on the vertical axis, draw a cumulative frequency
graph.
(3)

(c) Use your graph to estimate

(i) the median mark;

(ii) the lower quartile;

(iii) the pass mark, if 40% of the candidates passed.

(4)
(Total 9 marks)

An atlas gives the following information about the approximate population of some cities
in the year 2000. The population of Nairobi has accidentally been left out.

City Population in Millions

Melbourne 3.2
Bangkok 7.2
Nairobi
Paris 9.6
So Paulo 17.7
Tokyo 28.0
 Seattle 2.1

The atlas tells us that the mean population for this group of cities is 10.01 million.

(a) Calculate the population of Nairobi.

(b) Which city has the median population value?

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(a) ..
(b) ..................................................................
(Total 8 marks)

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.

 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)

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
2325 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.

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(a) ..
(b) ..................................................................
(c) ..........

(Total 8 marks)

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)

The numbers of games played in each set of a tennis tournament were

9, 7, 8, 11, 9, 6, 10, 8, 12, 6, 8, 13, 7, 9, 10, 9, 10, 11,

12, 8, 7, 13, 10, 7, 7.

The raw data has been organised in the frequency table below.

games frequency
6 2
7 5
8 n
9 4
10 4
11 2
12 2
13 2

(a) Write down the value of n.

 (b) Calculate the mean number of games played per set.

(c) What percentage of the sets had more than 10 games?

(d) What is the modal number of games?

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(a) ..
(b) ..................................................................
(c) ..
(d) ..........

(Total 8 marks)

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.

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(a) ..
(b) ..................................................................
(Total 4 marks)