6683/01 S1 MAY 2012

5.

Frequency
density

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
Speed of car

Figure 2

A policeman records the speed of the traffic on a busy road with a 30 mph speed limit.
He records the speeds of a sample of 450 cars. The histogram in Figure 2 represents the
results.

(a) Calculate the number of cars that were exceeding the speed limit by at least 5 mph in
the sample.
(4)

(b) Estimate the value of the mean speed of the cars in the sample.
(3)

(c) Estimate, to 1 decimal place, the value of the median speed of the cars in the sample.
(2)

(d) Comment on the shape of the distribution. Give a reason for your answer.
(2)

(e) State, with a reason, whether the estimate of the mean or the median is a better
representation of the average speed of the traffic on the road.
(2)
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2. The marks of a group of female students in a statistics test are summarised in Figure 1

Females

Males
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Mark
Figure 1

(a) Write down the mark which is exceeded by 75% of the female students.
(1)

The marks of a group of male students in the same statistics test are summarised by the
stem and leaf diagram below.

Mark (2|6 means 26) Totals

1 4 (1)
2 6 (1)
3 447 (3)
4 066778 (6)
5 001113677 (9)
6 223338 (6)
7 008 (3)
8 5 (1)
9 0 (1)

(b) Find the median and interquartile range of the marks of the male students.
(3)

An outlier is a mark that is

either more than 1.5 × interquartile range above the upper quartile

or more than 1.5 × interquartile range below the lower quartile.

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 (c) In the space provided on Figure 1 draw a box plot to represent the marks of the male
students, indicating clearly any outliers.
(5)

(d) Compare and contrast the marks of the male and the female students.
(2)
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 WST01/01 S1 AN 2014

8. A manager records the number of hours of overtime claimed by 40 staff in a month.

The histogram in Figure 1 represents the results.

Frequency
density

0 2 5 10 15 20 25 30
Hours of overtime
Figure 1

(a) Calculate the number of staff who have claimed less than 10 hours of overtime in the
month.
(4)

(b) Estimate the median number of hours of overtime claimed by these 40 staff in the
month.
(2)

(c) Estimate the mean number of hours of overtime claimed by these 40 staff in the
month.
(2)

The manager wants to compare these data with overtime data he collected earlier to find
out if the overtime claimed by staff has decreased.

(d) State, giving a reason, whether the manager should use the median or the mean to
compare the overtime claimed by staff.
(2)
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 6683/01 S1 UN 2014

1. A random sample of 35 homeowners was taken from each of the villages Greenslax and
Penville and their ages were recorded. The results are summarised in the back-to-back
stem and leaf diagram below.

Totals Greenslax Penville Totals

(2) 8 7 (7)
(3) 9 8 (11)
(4) 4 4 4 0 4 0 (5)
(5) 6 6 5 2 2 5 0 (5)
(7) 8 6 5 4 2 1 1 6 2 (4)
(8) 8 6 6 6 4 3 1 1 7 0 5 (2)
(5) 9 8 4 3 2 8 (0)
(1) 4 9 9 (1)
Key: 7 | 3 | 1 means 37 years for Greenslax and 31 years for Penville

Some of the quartiles for these two distributions are given in the table below.

Greenslax Penville
Lower quartile, Q1 a 31
Median, Q2 64 39
Upper quartile, Q3 b 55

(a) Find the value of a and the value of b.

(2)

An outlier is a value that falls either

more than 1.5 × (Q3 – Q1) above Q3

or more than 1.5 × (Q3 – Q1) below Q1

(b) On the graph paper opposite draw a box plot to represent the data from Penville.
Show clearly any outliers.
(4)

(c) State the skewness of each distribution. Justify your answers.

(3)
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5. The table shows the time, to the nearest minute, spent waiting for a taxi by each of 80
people one Sunday afternoon.

Waiting time
Frequency
(in minutes)
2–4 15
5–6 9
7 6
8 24
9–10 14
11–15 12

(a) Write down the upper class boundary for the 2–4 minute interval.
(1)

A histogram is drawn to represent these data. The height of the tallest bar is 6 cm.

(b) Calculate the height of the second tallest bar.

(3)

(c) Estimate the number of people with a waiting time between 3.5 minutes and
7 minutes.
(2)

(d) Use linear interpolation to estimate the median, the lower quartile and the upper
quartile of the waiting times.
(4)

(e) Describe the skewness of these data, giving a reason for your answer.
(2)
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 WST01/01 S1 AN 2015

2. A sports teacher recorded the number of press-ups done by his students in two minutes.
He recorded this information for a Year 7 class and for a Year 11 class.

The back-to-back stem and leaf diagram shows this information.

Totals Year 7 class Year 11 class Totals

(6) 876554 1
(10) 9776544422 2 0569 (4)
(7) 8754330 3 34588 (5)
(5) 99722 4 05679 (5)
(3) 840 5 03556677799 (11)
6 0333348 (7)

Key: 2|4|0 means 42 press-ups for a Year 7 student and 40 press-ups for a Year 11 student

(a) Find the median number of press-ups for each class.

(2)

For the Year 11 class, the lower quartile is 38 and the upper quartile is 59

(b) Find the lower quartile and the upper quartile for the Year 7 class.
(2)

(c) Use the medians and quartiles to describe the skewness of each of the two distributions.
(3)

(d) Give two reasons why the normal distribution should not be used to model the number
of press-ups done by the Year 11 class.
(2)
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1. Each of 60 students was asked to draw a 20° angle without using a protractor. The size of
each angle drawn was measured. The results are summarised in the box plot below.

0 10 20 30 40 50
size of angle
(a) Find the range for these data.
(1)

(b) Find the interquartile range for these data.

(1)

The students were then asked to draw a 70° angle.

The results are summarised in the table below.

Angle, a, (degrees) Number of students

55 a 60 6
60 a 65 15
65 a 70 13
70 a 75 11
75 a 80 8
80 a 85 7

(c) Use linear interpolation to estimate the size of the median angle drawn. Give your
answer to 1 decimal place.
(2)

(d) Show that the lower quartile is 63°

(2)

For these data, the upper quartile is 75°, the minimum is 55° and the maximum is 84°

An outlier is an observation that falls either

more than 1.5 × (interquartile range) above the upper quartile or
more than 1.5 × (interquartile range) below the lower quartile.

(e) (i) Show that there are no outliers for these data.

(ii) Draw a box plot for these data on the grid on page 3. (5)
(f) State which angle the students were more accurate at drawing. Give reasons for
your answer.
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