UNIT 16-7

49 marks from 49 questions

Question 1 Question 2

An example of continuous data is: All frequency diagrams should:

a. shoe sizes a. show frequency on the vertical axis

b. number of pupils in a class b. have gaps between the bars
c. heights of pupils in a class c. have a title

Please select all options.

Question 3 Question 4

The bar chart shows the ages of the members of a

swimming club.

The bar chart shows the results of four teams who

took part in a football competition.
How many members are aged under 20?

Which team lost the most games?

a. Team A

b. Team B

c. Team C

d. Team D
Question 5 Question 6

The stem-and-leaf diagram shows the heights in

centimetres of learners from a mathematics class. To enter the score 45 in a stem-and-leaf diagram,
what number would you put in the leaf column?

a. 45 b. 4 c. 5

Key: 14 | 3 means 143 cm

How many learners had a height of between 160 cm

and 170 cm?

cm

Question 7 Question 8

From this pie chart, what proportion of the day is Dry ingredients for a
playing soccer? cake are:

Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form. 120 g flour

15 g powdered
egg
45 g sugar

Which sector
represents sugar?
a.Sector A (pink)
b.Sector B (yellow)
c.Sector C (green)
Question 9 Question 10

Charita added her results for four examinations and This table shows the results of a survey on the
calculated a total of 320. number of children per family in a small town.

Her average examination mark for the four exams Number of children Frequency
is
1 4

2 7

3 12

4 8

Select all the statements that are true?

a. Eight families had 4 children.

The maximum number of children in any family

b.
is 4.

c. Three families had 12 children.

‘7’ in the frequency column means a family had

d.
7 children.
Question 11 Question 12

The frequency diagram shows the heights of the A group of students timed how long they could
learners in a Stage 8 class. hold their breath. Each student's best result was
recorded in the frequency diagram.

Time students can hold their breath

How many learners are less than 1.4 m tall?

How many more students could hold their breath

for longer than one minute than for less than 30
seconds?
Question 13 Question 14

Favourite fruit

Tieje did a survey of the people in her year group

to find out their favourite fruit. The frequency
diagram shows the results.

How many people took part in the survey?

By how much did the value of Monza’s car fall between
2011 and 2017?

Question 15 Question 16

The two middle scores in a set of data are 100

Jai surveyed Stage 8 learners’ preferred ice cream and 200.
flavour.
Flavour Number of people What is the median?

Chocolate 40

Raspberry 25

Mango 15

Which pie chart represents the results shown in the

table?

a. b.

c. d.
Question 17 Question 18

Lyndall surveyed her class about their favourite

What type of graph should you use to find a animals. Which of these types of graphs is the
relationship between two sets of data? better one to display her data?

a. Pie chart
a. A line graph

b. Infographic b. A pie chart

c. Stem-and-leaf diagram

d. Scatter graph

Question 19 Question 20

What should you consider first when deciding on

the most appropriate chart to use? A sample is taken of maths test scores from two
different classes in the same school stage.
a. The type of data
The test was out of 20.
b. The number of categories
c. The range of your data Class A: 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18
d. The number of pieces of data
Class B: 6, 7, 7, 9, 14, 15, 20

Which class had the highest median score?

a. Class A

b. Class B
Question 21 Question 22

The frequency diagram shows the heights of the The number of potatoes grown on each plant is
learners in a Stage 8 class. recorded for two different types of potato plant.

Type A

Number of potatoes345 6 789101112

Frequency 25811653 1 0 0

Type B

Number of potatoes3456789101112

Frequency 0235677 8 6 1

Which type of plant has the smallest range?

a. Type A

b. Type B
Which is the modal class?

a. 100 < h ≤ 120

b. 120 < h ≤ 140

c. 140 < h ≤ 160

d. 160 < h ≤ 820

Question 23 Question 24

Results of spelling test Forty-eight people were surveyed regarding which

brand of drink they would buy. The results are
shown below.

Frequency
Brand

A 15

B 7

C 19

None of them ?

If everyone’s answer was recorded, how many

people said they would not buy any of the brands?

The frequency diagram shows the scores out of 10

that Mr O’s class achieved in their latest spelling
test.

Any learner scoring half the maximum score or less

needs to take the test again.

How many learners need to take the test again?

Question 25 Question 26

Atul documented the number of televisions owned Results of spelling test

by the families of the learners in his maths class in
a frequency table.

2 4 1 0 3 3 2 1 1 3

2 3 2 1 3 2 2 3 3 1

The lowest number in the score column will be

.

The highest number in the score column will be

.

The number with the highest frequency is .

The frequency diagram shows the scores out of 10

that Mr O’s class achieved in their latest spelling
test.

How many people made fewer than two mistakes?

Question 27 Question 28

A store sells mobile phone prepaid cards valued at A class was asked to record how many children were
$10, $50 and $100. in their family. The frequency diagram shows the
results. Two of the bars are missing.
The frequency diagram shows the sales for one day. There were five more families with three children
than with one child, and twice as many with two
Sales of prepaid mobile phone cards children as with four children.
What are the missing frequencies?

Number of children per family

Value of card ($)

How much money was spent in total on the cards?
$

Number of families with two children =

Number of families with three children =

Question 29 Question 30

Some trees were measured and their heights were

measured as shown in the graph below.
Ages of people at a running club

Heights of trees

What percentage of the trees were in the middle

class interval? The frequency diagram shows the ages of the
people who belong to a running club. One of the
% bars is missing.

The club has 48 members.

How many are aged between 30 and 40?

Question 31 Question 32

The bar chart shows the number of males and

females studying at university in a small country.

How many more learners study sciences than maths?

Give your answer to the nearest 100.

learners Which company had the greatest total earnings over

the three years?

a. A b. B

c. C d. Both A and B

Both A
e. f. All three had equal earnings
and C
Question 33 Question 34

Expenditure for Redhill High

60 people were asked which breakfast they

preferred. How many chose baked beans and eggs? Approximately how much more is spent on salaries
than on stationery?

a. $45 000
b. $30 000
c. One third more
d. Three times

Question 35 Question 36

Score ( x ) Frequency ( f )
Which of these sets of data would be best
5 1 represented using a time series graph?
6 3
Select all correct answers.
7 4

8 2 a. The recorded temperature in a swimming pool

during a day
The mode of a set of data is the score with the
b. The results of a group of learners in history
highest frequency.
and science exams
The mode for this set of data is .
c. The exchange rate between two currencies
each morning for a month

d. The height of a tomato plant recorded daily

Question 37 Question 38

You want to compare the weekly expenditure of an You have conducted a survey of 1000 people to
average family in 10 different countries using a find out which sport they regularly take part in.
chart or diagram.
Why is a pictogram NOT a good choice to present
Which of these statements is true? this data?

An infographic would not be able to compare the a. The size of categories cannot be easily compared
a.
countries There is no scale or way of easily extracting the
b.
A line graph should be used as it shows the data
b.
changes between families The amount of data represented by each image
c.
A bar chart would show the differences by will be too high
c.
country clearly

Question 39 Question 40

Which of these reasons might be used

to explain why a pie chart is not a good
choice for displaying data?

a.The data cannot be quickly extracted

from the chart.

b.The frequencies of each category are

too varied.
A survey was completed by a sample of people in the USA and
c.There are only two categories.
the UK to find out the most popular type of holiday.

Select all of the statements below which are true?

a. Both the USA and UK surveys found the same type of

holiday to be most popular.

b. Twice as many people liked activity holidays in the USA

compared with the UK.

c. More people liked city breaks in the USA than the UK.
Question 41 Question 42

What fraction of this circle does not represent food?

a. b.

c. d.

The sector for corn represents 720 tonnes. How

many tonnes does the sector for wheat represent?

Question 43 Question 44

The number of hours of sunshine was recorded on A sample is taken from maths test scores from two
different days in two towns. different classes in the same school stage.

Town A: 8, 5, 14, 17, 18, 11, 17, 15, 14, 17, 11, 15 The test was out of 20.

Town B: 0, 8, 15, 4, 5, 16, 5, 9, 3, 6, 10, 9, 5, 18, 7, Class A: 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 17, 20
4
Class B: 6, 7. 7, 9, 14, 15, 20
Enter the letter of the town to complete these
sentences. Which class has the most varied results?

Town has a higher average number of hours of a. Class A

sunshine.
b. Class B

Town has a lower variation in the number of

hours of sunshine.
Question 45 Question 46

The number of potatoes grown on each plant is Score ( x ) Frequency ( f )

recorded for two different types of potato plant.
14 1
Type A 15 2

16 4
Number of potatoes345 6 789101112
17 5
Frequency 25811653 1 0 0
18 1
Type B
The highest frequency in this table is .
Number of potatoes3456789101112
The mode for this set of data is .
Frequency 0235677 8 6 1

Which of these statements are true?

Select all correct answers.

a. Type A has a higher mean than type B.

b. Type B has a higher median than type A.

c. Type B is more varied than type A.

d. Type A is more varied than type B.

Question 47 Question 48

1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9
The mean of five scores is 17.
If the score 5 is changed to 6, this would change
the: A sixth score of 17 is now included. Which
statement is true?
a. mode b. median c. range d. mean
a. The mean will go up. b. The mean will go down.

c. The mean will remain 17.

Question 49

In nine games of basketball, Eva had a mean of 13 points per game. What was Eva's total number of points
for all the nine games?

Total points =