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1. Mary recorded the heights, in centimetres, of the girls in her class.

She put the heights in order.

132 144 150 152 160 162 162 167

167 170 172 177 181 182 182

(a) Find

(i) the lower quartile,

........................... cm

(ii) the upper quartile.

........................... cm
(2)

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2. The incomplete table and histogram give some information about the ages of the people who
live in a village.

Frequency
density

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Age in years

(a) Use the information in the histogram to complete the frequency table below.

Age (x) in years Frequency

0 < x ≤ 10 160
10 < x ≤ 25
25 < x ≤ 30
30 < x ≤ 40 100
40 < x ≤ 70 120
(2)

(b) Complete the histogram.

(2)
(Total 4 marks)

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3. A garage keeps records of the costs of repairs to its customers’ cars.

The table gives information about the costs of all repairs which were less than £250 in one
week.

Cost, (£C) Frequency

0 < C ≤ 50 4
50 < C ≤ 100 8
100 < C ≤ 150 7
150 < C ≤ 200 10
200 < C ≤ 250 11

(a) Find the class interval in which the median lies.

.............................
(2)

There was only one further repair that week, not included in the table.
That repair cost £1000.

Dave says ‘The class interval in which the median lies will change.’

(b) Is Dave correct? Explain your answer.

..............................................................................................................................

..............................................................................................................................
(1)

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The garage also sells cars.

It offers a discount of 20% off the normal price for cash.

Dave pays £5200 cash for a car.

(c) Calculate the normal price of the car.

£............................
(3)
(Total 6 marks)

4. The table shows information about the heights of 40 bushes.

Height (h cm) Frequency

170 ≤ h < 175 5
175 ≤ h < 180 18
180 ≤ h < 185 12
185 ≤ h < 190 4
190 ≤ h < 195 1

(a) Complete the cumulative frequency table.

Height Cumulative
(h cm) Frequency
170 ≤ h < 175
170 ≤ h < 180
170 ≤ h < 185
170 ≤ h < 190
170 ≤ h < 195
(1)

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(b) On the grid, draw a cumulative frequency graph for your table.

40
Cumulative
frequency

30

20

10

0
170 175 180 185 190 195
Height (h cm)
(2)

(c) Use the graph to find an estimate for the median height of the bushes.

……………………… cm
(1)
(Total 4 marks)

5. One Monday, Victoria measured the time, in seconds, that individual birds spent on her bird
table.

She used this information to complete the frequency table.

Time (t seconds) Frequency

0 < t ≤ 10 8

10 < t ≤ 20 16

20 < t ≤ 25 15

25 < t ≤ 30 12

30 < t ≤ 50 6

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(a) Use the table to complete the histogram.

Frequency
density

0 10 20 30 40 50
Time (seconds)
(3)

On Tuesday she conducted a similar survey and drew the following histogram from her results.

Frequency
density

10 20 30 40 50

Time (Seconds)

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(b) Use the histogram for Tuesday to complete the table.

Time (t seconds) Frequency

0 < t ≤ 10 10

10 < t ≤ 20

20 < t ≤ 25

25 < t ≤ 30

30 < t ≤ 50
(2)
(Total 5 marks)

6. The table shows the number of computer games sold in a supermarket each month from January
to June.

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun

147 161 238 135 167 250

(a) Work out the three month moving averages for this information.

............ ............ ........... ............

(2)

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In a sale, a supermarket took 20% off its normal prices.

On Fun Friday, it took 30% off its sale prices.

Fred says, “That means there was 50% off the normal prices”.

(b) Fred is wrong. Explain why.

(2)
(Total 4 marks)

7. The table gives information about the ages of 160 employees of an IT company.

Age (A) in years Frequency

15 < A ≤ 25 44
25 < A ≤ 35 56
35 < A ≤ 45 34
45 < A ≤ 55 19
55 < A ≤ 65 7

(a) Complete the cumulative frequency table.

Age (A) in years Cumulative Frequency

15 < A ≤ 25
15 < A ≤ 35
15 < A ≤ 45
15 < A ≤ 55
15 < A ≤ 65

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(b) On the grid below, draw a cumulative frequency graph for your table.
(2)

(c) Use your graph to find an estimate for

(i) the median age of the employees,

................................... years

(ii) the interquartile range of the ages of the employees.

................................... years
(3)

Another IT company has 80 employees.

The age of the youngest employee is 24 years.

The age of the oldest employee is 54 years.

The median age is 38 years.

The lower quartile age is 30 years.
The upper quartile age is 44 years.

(d) On the grid, draw a box plot to show information about the ages of the employees.
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9. A youth club has 60 members.

40 of the members are boys.

20 of the members are girls.

The mean number of videos watched last week by all 60 members was 2.8
The mean number of videos watched last week by the 40 boys was 3.3

(a) Calculate the mean number of videos watched last week by the 20 girls.

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Ibrahim has two lists of numbers.

The mean of the numbers in the first list is p.
The mean of the numbers in the second list is q.

Ibrahim combines the two lists into one new list of numbers.

p+q
Ibrahim says ‘The mean of the new list of numbers is equal to .’
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One of two conditions must be satisfied for Ibrahim to be correct.

(b) Write down each of these conditions.

Condition 1

.....................................................................................................................................

.....................................................................................................................................

Condition 2

.....................................................................................................................................

.....................................................................................................................................
(2)
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10. The table shows information about the number of hours that 120 children used a computer last
week.

Number of hours Frequency

(h)
0<h≤2 10
2<h≤4 15
4<h≤6 30
6<h≤8 35
8 < h ≤ 10 25
10 < h ≤ 12 5
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(a) Work out an estimate for the mean number of hours that the children used a computer.
Give your answer correct to two decimal places.

………………hours
(4)

(b) Complete the cumulative frequency table.

Number of hours Cumulative

(h) frequency
0<h≤2 10
0<h≤4
0<h≤6
0<h≤8
0 < h ≤ 10
0 < h ≤ 12
(1)