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Recap Statistics: (48 Marks)

This document contains a statistics recap with multiple choice and free response questions about analyzing data sets using measures of central tendency, spread, and position like mean, median, mode, range, interquartile range, and standard deviation.

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Recap Statistics: (48 Marks)

This document contains a statistics recap with multiple choice and free response questions about analyzing data sets using measures of central tendency, spread, and position like mean, median, mode, range, interquartile range, and standard deviation.

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Recap Statistics [48 marks]

The fastest recorded speeds of eight animals are shown in the following table.

1a. State whether speed is a continuous or discrete variable. [1 mark]

1b. Write down the median speed for these animals. [1 mark]

1c. Write down the range of the animal speeds. [1 mark]

1d. For these eight animals find the mean speed. [2 marks]

1e. For these eight animals write down the standard deviation. [1 mark]

A group of 10 girls recorded the number of hours they spent watching television
during a particular week. Their results are summarized in the box-and-whisker
plot below.

2a. The range of the data is 16. Find the value of a . [2 marks]
2b. Find the value of the interquartile range. [2 marks]

The group of girls watched a total of 180 hours of television.

2c. Find the mean number of hours that the girls in this group spent [2 marks]
watching television that week.

A group of 20 boys also recorded the number of hours they spent watching
television that same week. Their results are summarized in the table below.

2d. Find the total number of hours the group of boys spent watching [2 marks]
television that week.

2e. Find the mean number of hours that all 30 girls and boys spent [3 marks]
watching television that week.

The following week, the group of boys had exams. During this exam week, the
boys spent half as much time watching television compared to the previous week.
For this exam week, find

2f. the mean number of hours that the group of boys spent watching [2 marks]
television.
University students were surveyed and asked how many hours, h , they worked
each month. The results are shown in the following table.

Use the table to find the following values.

3a. p. [1 mark]

3b. q. [1 mark]
The first five class intervals, indicated in the table, have been used to draw part of
a cumulative frequency curve as shown.

3c. On the same grid, complete the cumulative frequency curve for these [2 marks]
data.

3d. Use the cumulative frequency curve to find an estimate for the number [2 marks]
of students who worked at most 35 hours per month.

A health inspector analysed the amount of sugar in 500 different snacks prepared
in various school cafeterias. The collected data are shown in the following box-
and-whisker diagram.

Amount of sugar per snack in grams

4a. State what 13 represents in the given diagram. [1 mark]

4b. Write down the interquartile range for this data. [2 marks]

4c. Write down the approximate number of snacks whose amount of sugar [1 mark]
ranges from 18 to 20 grams.
4d. The health inspector visits two school cafeterias. She inspects the same [2 marks]
number of meals at each cafeteria. The data is shown in the following
box-and-whisker diagrams.

Meals prepared in the school cafeterias are required to have less than 10 grams of
sugar.
State, giving a reason, which school cafeteria has more meals that do not meet
the requirement.

Ten students were asked for the distance, in km, from their home to school. Their
responses are recorded below.
0.3 0.4 3 3 3.5 5 7 8 8 10

5a. For these data, find the mean distance from a student’s home to school. [2 marks]

The following box-and-whisker plot represents this data.

5b. Find the value of p. [1 mark]

5c. Find the interquartile range. [2 marks]


The following box-and-whisker plot shows the number of text messages sent by
students in a school on a particular day.

6a. Find the value of the interquartile range. [2 marks]

6b. One student sent k text messages, where k > 11 . Given that k is an [4 marks]
outlier, find the least value of k.

Each month the number of days of rain in Cardiff is recorded.


The following data was collected over a period of 10 months.
11 13 8 11 8 7 8 14 x 15
For these data the median number of days of rain per month is 10.

7a. Find the value of x. [2 marks]

7b. Find the standard deviation [2 marks]

7c. Find the interquartile range. [2 marks]

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