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Answers to Coursebook exercises

10 Processing and presenting data

✦ Exercise 10.1 Calculating statistics from discrete data


1 a 4.5 °C b 4 °C c 4.7 °C d 10 °C
2 a 17 b 10.4
3 a 20 b 1 c 2 d 1.93
4 a 9 b 7.5 c 7.1 d 10
5 a 40 b 0 c 70
6 They are correct if the first is the mean, the second is the median and the third is the mode.
7 a i 12.58 ii 12 iii 12 iv 5
b Not correct. It is true for the three averages but the range will not change.
8 a i 40 ii 1 and 3 iii 2 iv 2.25
b The mean or the median would be best. Every score contributes to the mean. In at least half the matches
the team scored at least the median. The mode is not a good choice.
9 There are lots of possible answers. Here is one.
Number 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency 6 0 0 6 8
In this case the mode is 5, the median is 4 and the mean is 3.5.

✦ Exercise 10.2 Calculating statistics from grouped or continuous data


1 a 21–30
b Because 15.5 is halfway between 11 and 20 (or between 10.5 and 20.5).
c 29.25
2 a 30– b halfway between 20 and 25
c about 32 or 33 minutes d 32.5 minutes
3 a 89.5 cm b 30 cm c 90.5 cm
4 a 31–40
b Only 18 messages have a length of 20 characters or less. The median is between the 25th and 26th so
it is more than 20.
c There are ten messages at most 10 characters long and one at least 51 characters long. The range must
be at least 51 − 10 = 41 characters.
d 24.9 characters
5 a 57 b between 30 minutes and one hour c about 45 minutes d 44 minutes
6 a 70–80 b 120 c 70 seconds d 68 seconds
e The mean is the best choice because the frequencies from every class are used to estimate it.

✦ Exercise 10.3 Using statistics to compare two distributions


1 a Paper 2. For Paper 2, the median was 5 less and the mean was nearly 7 less than Paper 1.
b Paper 1 because Paper 1’s range was greater than Paper 2’s range.
2 A was better than B because the mean grade for A was 3.37 and for B it was only 2.75. The mean is probably
the best average to use because it takes account of all the scores.

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Unit 10 Answers to Coursebook exercises

3 B
 oth teams have the same median, 2 goals. The mean for Juventus is 2.05 and for AC Milan is 1.82, so Juventus
scored 0.23 more goals per match, on average. The mode is not helpful in this case because there are three modes
for AC Milan: 0, 1 and 2 all have the same frequency.
4 T
 he median for the boys is about 132 cm and for the girls is about 135 cm, making the girls about 3 cm taller,
on average. The mean for the boys is 132.3 cm and for the girls is 135.2 cm; again the girls are about 3 cm taller,
on average.
5 T
 he mean for May is 8.3 cm and for November is 18.5 cm. The median for May is between 5 and 10 cm and the
median for November is between 15 and 20 cm. Both these show that on average there is about 10 cm more rain
in November than in May. The range for the two months is similar as both spread over five classes.
6 a 45
b You cannot tell. The nine in the classes 80–84 and 85–89 after dieting definitely lost mass, but some of the
others may not have done so.
c The range increased by about 10 kg.
d The mean mass went down from 104.7 kg to 96.2 kg, an average decrease of 8.5 kg.

End-of-unit review
1 a 8 characters b 9 characters c 9.3 characters d 5 characters
2 a i 95 cm ii 100 cm iii 96 cm iv 30 cm
b The mode. Have more of that size in the shop.
3 a 21–25 b 18.9 c It is in the 16–20 class
4 a 20– b About 31 minutes is a good estimate. c 32.25 minutes
d The estimate should be between 30 and 50 minutes.
5 a 35 boys and 32 girls
b They have the same median, 10. The mean for the boys is 9.9 and the mean for the girls is 9.5. The boys were
about 0.4 answers better.
6 T
 he modal class for the newspaper is 11–15 and for the magazine it is 21–25. The mean for the newspaper is 14.1
and for the magazine it is 18.9. This shows that the sentences in the magazine are longer by about 4.8 words.

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