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1. The back-to-back stem and leaf diagram on page 3 shows information about the running
times of 31 Action films and 31 Comedy films.
The running times are given to the nearest minute.

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(a) Write down the modal running time for these Action films.
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Lower quartile 121 a

Median b 117

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(d) Evaluate this measure and describe the skewness for the running times of these
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(e) Comment on one difference between the distribution of the running times of these
Action films and the distribution of the running times of these Comedy films.
State the values of any statistics you have used to support your comment.
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(1) 0 9 2 2 3 5 8 (5)
(0) 10 3 5 6 6 8 9 (6)
(5) 9 8 6 4 2 11 0 2 4 6 7 9 9 9 (8)
(10) 9 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 1 0 12 1 2 4 6 6 7 7 7 7 8 9 (11)
(8) 8 7 7 7 5 4 2 1 13 1 (1)
(7) 7 7 6 6 4 3 1 14 (0)

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2. A biologist records the length, y cm, and the weight, w kg, of 50 rabbits.
The following summary statistics are calculated from these data.

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(a) (i) Show that Syy = 734

(ii) Calculate the product moment correlation coefficient for these data.
Give your answer to 3 decimal places.
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3. A group of 200 adults were asked whether they read cooking magazines, travel
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• 29 read only cooking magazines
• 33 read only travel magazines
• 42 read only sport magazines
• 17 read cooking magazines and sport magazines but not travel magazines
• 11 read travel magazines and sport magazines but not cooking magazines
• 22 read cooking magazines and travel magazines but not sport magazines
• 32 do not read cooking magazines, travel magazines or sport magazines
(a) Using this information, complete the Venn diagram on page 11
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The distances, m miles, a motorbike travels on a full tank of petrol can be modelled by a
normal distribution with mean 170 miles and standard deviation 16 miles.
(a) Find the probability that, on a randomly selected journey, the motorbike could travel
at least 190 miles on a full tank of petrol.
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The probability that, on a randomly selected journey, the motorbike could travel at least
d miles on a full tank of petrol is 0.9
(b) Find the value of d
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Charlie decides to model these data using a normal distribution.
Charlie calculates an estimate of the mean to be 23.9 hours to one decimal place.
(d) Comment on Charlie’s decision to use a normal distribution.
Give a justification for your answer.
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6. A biased die with six faces is rolled. The discrete random variable X represents the
score which is uppermost. The cumulative distribution function of X is shown in the
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These dice are each rolled once. The scores on the two dice are independent.
(f) Find the probability that the sum of these two scores is 3
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(a) Complete the tree diagram for this information. Give your probabilities in terms of
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8. An orchard produces apples.

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It is known that

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(a) Calculate the value of μ and the value of σ
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The weights, B grams, of its apples have distribution B ~ N(215, 102)
An outlier is a value that is

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