7 Statistics Test
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SECTION  ALLOCATION 

Multiple Choice  /20

Short Answer  /28

Extension  /8

Important Information
● Students are permitted to bring into the examination room: pens, pencils, highlighters, erasers, sharpeners,
rulers, calculator and a dictionary.
● Students are permitted to bring in their study books.
● Students are NOT permitted to bring into the examination room: blank sheets of paper and whiteout.

Materials supplied
● Question Paper
● Lined paper

Instructions
● Write your name in the space provided on this page.
● All written responses must be in English.
● Write your name on each page and number each page.

Students are NOT permitted to bring mobile phones and/or any other unauthorised electronic devices into the
examination room.

 
 
 

   

 
 

Multiple Choice /20

Marks
1. The number of cars in a car park can be classified as what type of data? 1
a. Categorical Data Mark
b. Discrete Numerical Data
c. Discrete Continuous Data

2. The table belows shows the number of laps that was done by swimmers in a 1
pool. How many swimmers were surveyed for this data? Mark

a. 4
b. 6
c. 21
d. 30

3. Referring to the frequency table in question 2, what number of laps was swam 1
most often? Mark
a. 21
b. 26
c. 30
d. 150

4. The graph below shows the height of five different Year 9 students. Peter’s 1
height is: Mark

a. 140cm
b. 160cm
c. 165cm
d. 200cm

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5. Referring to the graph shown in question 4, the student with the median height 1
is: Mark
a. John
b. Peter
c. Julian
d. Connor

6. I collect the heights of all students in a class. Is this primary or secondary data? 1
a. Primary Mark
b. Secondary

7. Collecting data about an entire population is called a: 1

a. Sample Mark
b. Mean
c. Census
d. Survey

8. What is the median of these numbers: 1

4, 19, 26, 41, 57, 23, 5 Mark
a. 23
b. 41
c. 26
d. 57

9. When graphing continuous data, the best graph to use is a: 1

a. Bar Graph Mark
b. Histogram
c. Column Graph
d. Dot Plot

10. The following stem-and-leaf plot represents the scores of a neball team, what is 1
the median: Mark

a. 5
b. 78
c. 64
d. 73

11. What is the mode from the stem and leaf plot in question 10: 1
a. 8 Mark
b. 59
c. 65
d. 78

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12. The frequency table below shows the age of all visitors to Luna Park on a 1
saturday, what class interval was used? Mark

a. 10
b. 5
c. 40
d. 4

13. Which histogram matches the data above? 1

Mark

a. A
b. B
c. C
d. D

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14. Louis counts the number of matches in several matchboxes. What is the 1
median number of matches? Mark

a. 50
b. 49
c. 51
d. 49.5

The following data is to be used for questions 15-20. 1

Bailey surveyed his Tutorial class to find out how long in minutes it takes each student Mark
to travel to school - ​Time in minutes: 2, 5, 5, 5, 10, 10, 15, 20, 20, 100

15. What is the mean amount of time it takes the students to travel to school?
a. 5
b. 10
c. 19.2
d. 22.7

16. What is the median time to school? 1

a. 7.5 Mark
b. 10
c. 12.5
d. 15

17. What is the mode? 1

a. 5 Mark
b. 10
c. 15
d. 20

18. What is the range? 1

a. 80 Mark
b. 100
c. 98
d. 95

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19. Which value is the outlier? 1

a. 2 Mark
b. 20
c. 100
d. There is no outlier

20. Bailey decides to remove the outlier in his data set. The removal of this value 1
will? Mark
a. Change the mean, median, mode and range.
b. Change the mean and range of the data.
c. Change the mean, median and range of the data.
d. Change the mean, but the mode, median and range will remain the same.

   

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Short Answer 28/

Marks
21. Identify the following data sets as categorical, discrete numerical or continuous 3
numerical. Marks
a. Number of pets owned: ​1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 8
​Type of data​: ___________________________

b. Favourite colour: ​red, red, brown, blue, violet, purple, indigo, gold
​Type of data​: ___________________________

c. Weight: ​82.4kg, 56.3kg, 100.0kg, 89.7kg, 67.8kg

​Type of data​: ___________________________

22. A sample was surveyed about people’s favourite AFL team. Complete the 3
frequency table for the data gathered below. Marks

Crows, kangaroos, kangaroos, cats, eagles, eagles, kangaroos, crows, lions, eagles,
cats, kangaroos, eagles, crows.

Team Tally Frequency

TOTAL

23. For the frequency table in question 22 above, create an appropriate Dot Plot. 2
Marks

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24. The following data was gathered showing how many minutes people visited a 10
library for. Marks
9, 13, 14, 14, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 23, 30, 31, 68
a) Represent as a stem and leaf plot. 2

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b) Calculate the mean score.

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c) What is the mode score?

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d) What is the median score?

e) What is the range for this data set? 1

f) Identify the outlier and describe what effect it is having on the mean and 3
median. Which one is a better representative of the centre, why?

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25. Describe some of the benefits to collecting secondary data instead of primary 2
data. Marks

26. The frequency table below shows the data collected for student heights. Use 3
the template next to it to create a ​Histogram​ that represents this data. Marks

27. Use the below table of heights to answer the following questions: 5
Marks

a) Calculate ​both ​the mean and median for this data set.
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b) Is the mean or median a better representative of the middle of this data set? 1
Explain why.

c) Is this data being ​positively skewed ​or ​negatively skewed​? Explain your answer.
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d) If the height of the outlier is not included, which one of the nine remaining 1
people have the mean height?

 
   

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Extension /8
Marks
28. Mr Kenneally owns two kitchen stores, Store A and Store B. He has been 3
monitoring the sales of appliances between the two stores. The table below Marks
shows how many of each appliance was sold at both the stores.

Appliance Type Amount sold at Store A Amount sold at Store B

Grill 40 20

Toaster 35 15

Oven 30 30

Blender 40 30

Coffee Machine 35 45

a) Using the graph paper below, create a double bar graph to compare the data
from the two stores.

b) In total, which store sold the most amount of appliances?

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29. Mr Kenneally then monitors the amount of money that people spend at his 3
stores. The numbers below are the dollar values he collected over an hour. Marks
Store A: ​9, 29, 30, 31, 31, 31, 38, 42, 47, 51, 55, 61, 63

Store B: ​3, 6, 10, 12, 12, 12, 12, 15, 17, 21, 24, 27, 30

a) Construct a double sided stem and leaf plot to compare the income from the
two shops.

b) Do either data sets contain an outlier. If so, how is this skewing the data?

30. Mr Kenneally has fallen on hard times and needs to close down one of his 2
kitchen stores. Use the graphs you have created and the relevant summary Marks
statistics (mean, median, mode and range) to explain to him if it is better to
close Shop A or Shop B.

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