One-Variable Statistics Study Guide 1

Answer on separate sheets of lined and graph paper.

1. At a conference of 100 mathematicians there are 72 men and 28 women. The men have a mean height of
1.79m and the women have a mean height of 1.62m. Find the mean height of the 100 mathematicians.

(Total 4 marks)
2. The number of hours of sleep of 21 students are shown in the frequency table below.

Hours of sleep Number of students

4 2
5 5
6 4
7 3
8 4
10 2
12 1

Find

(a) the median; (b) the lower (c) the interquartile

quartile; range.

3. The 45 students in a class each recorded the number of whole minutes, x, spent doing experiments on
Monday. The results are ∑x = 2230.

(a) Find the mean number of minutes the students spent doing experiments on Monday.

Two new students joined the class and reported that they spent 37 minutes and 30 minutes respectively.

(b) Calculate the new mean including these two students. (Total 6 marks)

7. In a school with 125 girls, each student is tested to see how many sit-up exercises (sit-ups) she can do in one
minute. The results are given in the table below.
Cumulative
Number of sit-ups Number of students
number of students
15 11 11
16 21 32
17 33 p
18 q 99
19 18 117
20 8 125

(a) (i) Write down the value of p.

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 (ii) Find the value of q.
(3)

(b) Find the median number of sit-ups.

(2)

(c) Find the mean number of sit-ups.

(2)
(Total 7 marks)

4. The cumulative frequency graph below shows the heights of 120 girls in a school.

130

120

110

100

90
Cumulative frequency

80

70

60

50

40

30

20

10

0
150 155 160 165 170 175 180 185
Height in centimetres

(a) Using the graph

(i) write down the median;

(ii) find the interquartile range.

(b) Given that 60% of the girls are taller than a cm, find the value of a.
(Total 6 marks)

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5. A supermarket records the amount of money d spent by customers in their store during a busy period. The
results are as follows:

Money in $ (d) 0–20 20–40 40–60 60–80 80–100 100–120 120–140

Number of customers (n) 24 16 22 40 18 10 4

(a) Find an estimate for the mean amount of money spent by the customers, giving your answer to the
nearest dollar ($).
(2)

(b) Copy and complete the following cumulative frequency table and use it to draw a cumulative
frequency graph. Use a scale of 2 cm to represent $20 on the horizontal axis, and 2 cm to represent 20
customers on the vertical axis.
(5)
Money in $ (d) <20 <40 <60 <80 < 100 < 120 < 140
Number of customers (n) 24 40

(c) The time t (minutes), spent by customers in the store may be represented by the equation

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t = 2d + 3.

(i) Use this equation and your answer to part (a) to estimate the mean time in minutes spent by
customers in the store.
(3)

(ii) Use the equation and the cumulative frequency graph to estimate the number of customers who
spent more than 37 minutes in the store.
(5)
(Total 15 marks)

6. A taxi company has 200 taxi cabs. The cumulative frequency curve on the right shows the fares in dollars ($)
taken by the cabs on a particular morning.

(a) Use the curve to estimate

(i) the median fare;

(ii) the number of cabs in which the fare taken is $35 or less.
(2)

The company charges 55 cents per kilometre for distance travelled. There are no other charges. Use the curve
to answer the following.

(b) On that morning, 40% of the cabs travel less than a km. Find the value of a.
(4)

(c) What percentage of the cabs travel more than 90 km on that morning?

(4)
(Total 10 marks)

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Graph for Question # 6 (See left page)

200

180

160

140

120
Number of cabs

100

80

60

40

20

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Fares ($)

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