9MAT Revision for Statistical Literacy

QUESTION ONE
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Football Players
The head Football Coach made the following incorrect
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Number of Students
statement using this graph.
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“The graph shows that the number of boys playing football is
more than double the number of girls playing football.” 16 Girls

15 Boys
Explain how the graph could have caused the coach to
make an incorrect statement. 14

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Girls Boys

QUESTION TWO
2015 2019
This pie graph shows the number of Year 9 students playing
2019
rugby from 2015 – 2019.
2018 2018
(a) What two years had the same number of Year 9 2016 2017
students playing rugby?
2016
(b) If 85 Year 9 students played rugby from 2015 –
2015
2019, approximately how many students played 2017
rugby in 2017?

QUESTION THREE

The number of points scored by the BDSC 1st XV in their 12 games this season are given below.

16 55 10 60 20 24

29 29 29 21 31 10

Work out the following statistics for the season.

Median number of points ___________________Mode number of points _____________________

Mean number of points ___________________Range of the number of points _______________

QUESTION FOUR 50
Injuries 2017 - 2018
This graph shows the number students with sports 40
injuries at school during 2017 and 2018. 30
Describe what the graph shows about the number of 20
sports injuries in 2017 and 2018.
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QUESTION FIVE

Henare’s teacher bought each student in the class a mini packet of biscuits. Before they could eat them, they had to
count how many biscuits were in their packet.

They recorded the results on a dot plot

(i) How many people are there in the class?

(ii) Describe two features of the distribution of

the number of biscuits in a packet.

(iii) Explain (based on the graph) why the mean

number of biscuits is probably higher than the
median number of biscuits.

QUESTION SIX

The class then decided that they could make better

biscuits, so they made and sold biscuits for 4 weeks.

Their sales are shown on the time series graph below.

(i) What was the most biscuits sold in one day?

(ii) What is the overall trend in the biscuit sales?

(iii) Describe any patterns you can see in the

biscuit sales during each week.

(iv) If the class sell biscuits for another week, predict how many biscuits they will sell on Monday, and explain
how you worked this out.

QUESTION SEVEN

This graph shows the number of medals won by the 4 most successful countries at the Olympics in 2000.

(i) How many silver medals did Australia

win?

(ii) Which country won the least number of

gold medals?

(iii) What was the total number of medals

won by the USA?

(iv) Which country won about the same

number of each type of medal? How can
you tell this from the graph?