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Bona limes have you attended the cinema in the past 1 Twenty people leaving a cinema are each asked, “How mat yeue?” Their responses are: 6,2,13,1, 4,811, 3,4,16, 7,20, 13, 5,15, 3,12, 9, 26and 0. Construct a stem-and-leaf diagram for these dats and include a key. 2 A shopkeeper takes 12 bags of coins to the bunk. The bags contain the following numbers of coins: 150, 163,158, 165 172,152, 160,170, 186, 162, 159.and 175, ‘2 Represent this information in stem-and-leaf diagram, 'b Each bag contains coins of ihe same value, and the shopkeeper has atleast one bag containing coins with dollar values of 0,10, 0.25, 0.50 and 1,00 only. ‘What is the greatest possible value of all the coins in the 12 bags? is stem-and-leof diagram shows the number of employees at 20 companies. Ket /0 3. This stom-and-leof diagram shows the number of employees at 20 comps 9 Ret a What isthe most common number of employees? employes b_ How many of the companies have fewer than 25 employees? © What percentage of the companies have more than 30 employees? d_ Determine wisich of the three rows in the stem-and-leaf disram contains the smallest number of: 1 companies employees, 4 Over a}4-day period, data were collected on the number of Feny A()| [FenyZ04) Key 31810 passengers travelling on two ferries, A and Z. The cesults are 476 represents 53 presented to the right. 7640/3/058 passengerson A 8653/4 [345777 andsOpnengers a How many more passengers travelled on ferry Z than on. s33lslo2669 oz ferry A? b_ The cost ofa trip on ferry A ie $12.50 and the cost of a trip on ferry Z is Sx. The takings on ferry Z were $3.30 less than the takings on ferry A over this period, Find the value of x. ¢ Find the least and greatest possible number of days on which the two ferries could have carried exactly the same number of passengers. 5 The runs scored by two batsmen in 15 cricket matches last season vere Batsman P: 53,41, 57, 38, 4, 37,59, 48, 52, 39, 47, 36,37, 44, 59 Batsman Q: 56, 48,31, 64, 21,52, 45, 36,57, 68, 77,20, 42,51, 71. a Show the data in a diagram that allows easy comparison of the two performances. 1b Giving a reason for your answer, decide wh i better of the batsmen performed: more consistently, 4 The heights of 600 saplings re shown inthe following table kw 1 Ina particular city there are 51 buildings of historical interest. The following table presents the ages ofthese buildings, given to the nearest 50 years. ‘0-600 acorcat au aue oe 6 Write down the lower and upper boundary values ofthe class containing the greatest number of buildings. State the widths of the four clas intervals ¢ Wlusteate the data ina histogram, 4 Estimate the number of buildings that are bet 250 and 400 years old The masses, mrgrams, of 690 medical sample: ure given in the following table, sSmeld Demem emer 2a 396 Find the value of p that appears inthe table. b_ On graph paper, draw a histogram to represent the data € Calculate an estimate of the number of samples with masses between S and I8grams, 3 The table below shows the height metres, of 50 boys and of 50 itis. 12 1 OS 16 119 7 i 26 6 0 2 16 2 2 How many children are between .3 and 1.6 mete tall? b_ Drawa histogram to represent the heights ofall the boys and girls together. € Estimate the number of children wiose heights are 1.7 metres or more. LS 5 « aaa a alue for u, the upper boundary ofthe data. ina histogram, € Caleulae ea estimate of the number of saplings with heights that ae: 1 fess than 25em between 7.Sand 19.5em. 5. Each of the 70 trainses ata secretarial college was asked to type a copy of particular document. The times taken are shown, correct to the nearest 0.1 minutes, in the following table mS n 5 7 a > Explain why the interval for the first class has a width of 0.3 minutes. Represent the times taken in a histogram. Estimate, to the nearest second, the pper boundary of the times taken by the fastest 10 typists Itis given that 15 trainees took between 3.15 and b minutes. Calculate an estimate for the value of 6 when: 1 boas W623. hw 1 The reaction tines seconds of 66 participants were measured in an experiment and presented below. els 0 130) 3 { 1.45, 8 16s 2 185 = reo =. rei80 =e 2 Draw acumulative yuency polygon to represent the data, b_ Useyour graph to estimate: {the number of participants with reaction times between 5 and 7.5 seeonds the lower boundary ofthe slowest 20 reaction times 2 The allowing table shows the widths ofthe 70 books in one section of library, given to the nearest centucte oa 1018 m9 20-29 ES) 3 a 35 = 22 Given that the upper boundary ofthe first class 14Sem, write down the upper boundary ofthe second class bb Draw up a cumulative frequency table forthe data and construct a cumulative frequency graph € Useyour graph to estimate: {the number of books that have widths of less than 27em the widthe of the widest 20 books, 5 The following cumulative Frequency graph shows the masses, mgrams, of 152 uncut diamonds, Comat equency (No, darn) = timate the nsznber of uncut diamonds with masts such thet i o=m bb Theligitest 40 diamonds are classified as small, Th beusiest 40 diamonds are classified as large, Estimate T2emeI36 the difference between the mass ofthe heaviest small diamond and the lightest large diamond. 4. The diameters, dem, of 60 cylindrical electronic components are represented in the following cumul ‘Cumulative fequeney (No. components) 0 02 a3 os os 06 Diameter (du) Find the aumber of components such that 0.2 <04 and explain why your answer is not an estimate. Estimate the number of components that have: 1 adiameter of less than 0.1Sem Hi a radius of 0.16em or more. Estimate the value of k, given that 20% of tie components have diameters of kmm or more. Give the reason why 0.1-0.2em is the modal class. 4 6 The densities, d g/m’, of 125 chemical compounds are given in the following table. an [daw [eae [eae [aan 22 l 7 2 107 125 Find the frequencies a,b, and d given in the table below. 1421.70 Yo 1.30- @ > 1 Jamila noted each student's answer when her year group was asked to name their favourite colour. List the methods of representation that would be stable for displaying Jamila’s data 'b- Iaunila wishes to emphasise that the favourite colour of exactly three-quarters of the students is blue. Which type of representation from your list do you think would be the most effective for Jamila to use? Explain why you have chosen this particular type of representation. 2 A large number of chickens’ eggs are individually weighed. The masses are grouped into nine classes, each of, ‘width 2 prams, from 48 to 668, Name a type of representation in which the fact could be seen that the majority of the eggs have masses from ‘5410 60g. Explain how the representation would show this. 3. Boxes of floor tiles are to be offered for sale at a special price of $75. The boxes claim to contain at least 100 tiles each, a Why would it be preferable to use a stem-and-leaf diagram ratier than a bar chart to represent the numbers of tiles, which are 112, 116, 107, 108, 121, 104, 111, 106, 10S and 110? b How may the seller benefit if the numbers 12, 16, 7, #,2i, 4, 11, 6, 5 and 10 are used to draw the stem-and- lea’ diagram instead of the actual numbers of tiles? 4 A charity group's target is to raise a certain amount of money in a year. At the end of the first month the ‘group raised 36% of the target amount, and at ihe end of each subsequent month they manage to raise exactly half of the amount outstanding. a How many months will it take the group to raise 99% of the money? 'b- Namea type of representation (aat will show that the group fails to reach its target by the end of the year. Explain how this fact would be show in the representation,

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