Mathematics Statistics 2011

CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY WORK SHEET

1. Ricardo asks people how much they spend each year on books.
He puts his results in the table below.

Amount ( ) Frequency

(a) (i) Write down the modal class. [1]

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean. [4]

(iii) Explain briefly why, although you have done an exact calculation to find the
mean, it is still an “estimate”. [1]

(b) Answer the rest of the question on a sheet of graph paper.

(i) Make a cumulative frequency table for the data above. [2]

(ii) Using cm to represent on the horizontal axis and cm to represent

people on the vertical axis, draw the cumulative frequency diagram. [4]

(c) Using your graph to find

(i) the median, [1]

(ii) the upper and lower quartiles, [2]

(iii) the interquartile range. [1]

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2. The cumulative frequency diagram shows the weekly amount spent on food by
families.

(a) Use the diagram to find, to the nearest dollar,

(i) the median, [1]
(ii) the upper and lower quartiles, [2]
(iii) the percentile. [1]

(b) (i) Work out the inter – quartile range. [1]

(ii) The range is .

Write the inter – quartile range as a percentage of the range. [1]

(c) (i) Copy and complete this table on your answer paper for the whole graph.

Weekly amount ( ) Frequency ( )

……….

……….

.......................... ……….
[3]

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(ii) Which is the model class? [1]

(iii) Calculate an estimate of the mean weekly amount spent on food.

Show all your working. [4]

(iv) Explain how to get a more accurate of the mean, using only data display in the
diagram. [1]

3. Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of graph paper.

The table shows the amount of money, , spent on books by a group of students.

Amount
spent ( )
Number of
students

(a) Calculate an estimate mean amount of money per student spent on books. [4]

(b) Use the information in the table above to find the value of , and in the following
cumulative frequency table.

Amount
spent ( )
Number of
students
[2]

(c) Using a scale of cm to represent units on each axis, draw a cumulative

frequency diagram. [4]

(d) Use your diagram

(i) to estimate the median amount spent, [1]

(ii) to find the upper and lower quartiles, and the inter – quartile range. [3]

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4. Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of graph paper.

The heights of girls are distributed as shown in the cumulative frequency table
below.
Height (H cm)
No. of girls

(a) Draw a smooth cumulative frequency curve for these results, using the following
scales. On the horizontal axis a scale of cm to represent a height of cm and on
vertical axis cm to represent girls. [5]

(b) Use your graph to estimate

(i) the number of girls whose height is less than or equal to cm, [1]
(ii) the median of the distribution, [1]
(iii) the value above which the heights of the tallest of the girls, [2]
(iv) explain, all these answers are estimations only. [1]

(c)
Height in (H cm) No. of girls

This table gives the above information in different form.

Find the value of . [2]

(d) This information was illustrated on a histogram and the column representing
was cm wide and cm high.

For the column representing , find

(i) the width, [1]
(ii) the height. [2]

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5.

people record the number of hours they work in a week.

The cumulative frequency graph shows this information.

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(a) Use the graph to find

(i) the median, [1]

(ii) the upper quartile, [1]

(iii) the inter – quartile range, [1]

(iv) the number of people who work more than hours in a week. [2]

(b) Omar uses the graph to make the following frequency table.

Hours
worked ( )
Frequency

(i) Use the graph to find the values of and . [2]

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean number of hours worked in a week. [4]

(c) Shalini uses the graph to make a different frequency table.

Hours
worked ( )
Frequency

When she draws a histogram, the height of the column for the interval
is cm.

Calculate the height of each of the other three columns. [4]

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6. Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of graph paper.

The heights ( cm) of students in a school are measured and the results are shown
in the table.
Frequency

(a) Write down the model group. [1]

(b) (i) Calculate an estimate of the mean height. [4]

(ii) Explain why the answer to part (b)(i) is an estimate. [1]

(c) The following table shows the cumulative frequencies for the heights of the
students.
Cumulative frequency
0

Write down the values of , and . [2]

(d) Using a scale of cm to units, draw a horizontal , starting at .

Using a scale of cm to units, draw a vertical axis, draw a cumulative frequency
diagram. [5]

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(e) Use your diagram to

(i) the median height, [1]

(ii) the upper quartile, [1]

(iii) the inter – quartile range, [1]

(iv) the percentile. [1]

(f) All the players in the school’s basketball team are chosen from the 30 tallest
students. Use your diagram to find the least possible height of any player in the
basketball team. [2]

7. (a) The numbers , , , , , , , , , are in order ( ).

Their median is and their mean is .

(i) Write down the mode. [1]

(ii) Find the value of . [1]

(iii) Find the value of . [2]

(iv) Maria chooses a number at random from the list.

The probability of choosing this number is .
Which number does she choose? [1]

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(b) students are given a question to answer.

The time taken ( seconds) by each student is recorded and the results are shown in
the table.

Frequency

(i) Calculate an estimate of the mean time taken. [4]

(ii) Two students are picked at random.

What is the probability that they both took more than seconds?
Give your answer as a fraction in its lowest terms. [3]

8. eggs were sorted by mass into five different sizes.

Mass ( grams) Frequency

Small
Medium
Standard
Large
Extra large

(a) Find the modal class. [1]

(b) Write down the class which contains the lower quartile. [1]

(c) Write down the class which contains the percentile. [1]

(d) Calculate an estimate of the mean mass of these eggs. [4]

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(e)

The cumulative frequency curve has been drawn using the information in the table
above.

(i) Explain why the point ( , 200) is on the curve. [2]

(ii) Estimate the median mass of the eggs. [1]

(iii) Estimate the inter – quartile range of the masses of the egg. [2]

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9. Pedro and Anna measured the circumference ( ) of trees.

Their results are shown in the table and the cumulative frequency diagram below.

Circumference
( ) in cm
Frequency

(a) (i) Estimate the number of trees whose circumferences are between cm and
cm. [2]

(ii) Use the cumulative frequency graph to find the median, the quartiles and the
Inter - quartile range. [4]

(iii) Calculate an estimate of the mean circumference. [4]

(iv) Write down the modal class. [1]

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(b) Anna wants to construct a histogram.

She makes a table to show the heights of the bar she will draw, using a scale of cm
to represent cm on the horizontal axis and to represent tree.

Circumference
( ) in cm
Frequency

(i) Explain why the height of the bar for the class interval is cm.
[1]

(ii) Find the values of , and .

Do NOT draw a histogram. [3]

10. Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of graph paper.

(a) 100 seeds were treated with fertilizer and the heights ( cm) of the plants which
grew are given in the cumulative frequency table below.

Height ( cm)

Cumulative frequency

(i) Using a scale of cm to represent cm on the horizontal - axis and cm to

represent plants on the vertical axis, draw the cumulative frequency diagram
for these plants. [5]

(ii) Find the median, lower quartile and inter – quartile range. [3]

(iii) Write down the number of plants in the group. [1]

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(b) Another seeds were not treated with fertilizer and the heights ( cm) of the
plants which grew from these seeds are given in the grouped frequency table below.

Height ( cm)

Frequency

You do not need to draw another graph.

(i) Calculate an estimate of the mean value of . [4]

(ii) Write down the class which contains the lower quartile. [1]

(iii) Write down the class which contains the percentile. [1]

(c) The two groups of plants are combined.

One of these plants is chosen at random.

(i) Find the probability that its height is less than or equal to cm. [2]

(ii) Given that the plant height is less than or equal to cm, what is the probability
that it was treated with fertilizer? [2]

11. Answer the whole of this question on a sheet of graph paper.

In survey, shoppers were asked how much they had just spent in supermarket.
The results are shown in the table.

Amount ( )
Number of
shoppers

(a) (i) Write down the modal class. [1]

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean amount, giving your answer correct to
decimal places. [4]

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(b) (i) Make a cumulative frequency table for these shoppers. [2]

(ii) Using a scale of cm to represent cm on the horizontal axis and cm to

represent shoppers on the vertical axis, draw a cumulative frequency
diagram for this data. [4]

(c) Use your cumulative frequency diagram to find

(i) the median amount, [1]

(ii) the upper quartile, [1]

(iii) the inter – quartile range, [1]

(iv) how many shoppers spent at least . [2]

12. students take a mathematics test.

The cumulative frequency diagram shows the results.

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Write down

(i) the median mark, [1]

(ii) the lower quartile, [1]

(iii) the upper quartile, [1]

(iv) the inter – quartile range, [1]

(v) the lower possible mark scored by the top students, [1]

(vi) the number of students scoring more than marks. [1]

13. The depth, centimetres, of a river was recorded each day during a period of one year
( days). The results are shown by the cumulative frequency curve.

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(a) Use the cumulative frequency curve to find

(i) the median depth, [1]

(ii) the inter – quartile range, [2]

(iii) the depth at the percentile, [2]

(iv) the number of days when the depth of the river was at least cm. [2]

(b)

Number
of days

(i) Show that and . [2]

(ii) Use the information in the table and the values of and to calculate an
estimate of the mean depth of the river. [4]

GOOD LUCK
Go back and check your answers …..

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