REVISION FOR FEBRUARY 4

1a. [1 mark]
At the end of a school day, the Headmaster conducted a survey asking students in how
many classes they had used the internet.
The data is shown in the following table.

State whether the data is discrete or continuous.

1b. [4 marks]
The mean number of classes in which a student used the internet is 2.
Find the value of 𝑘.

1c. [1 mark]
It was not possible to ask every person in the school, so the Headmaster arranged
the student names in alphabetical order and then asked every 10th person on the list.
Identify the sampling technique used in the survey.
2a. [2 marks]
A food scientist measures the weights of 760 potatoes taken from a single field and
the distribution of the weights is shown by the cumulative frequency curve below.

Find the number of potatoes in the sample with a weight of more than 200 grams.

2b. [1 mark]
Find the median weight.

2c. [1 mark]
Find the lower quartile.
2d. [1 mark]
Find the upper quartile.

2e. [2 marks]
The weight of the smallest potato in the sample is 20 grams and the weight of the largest
is 400 grams.
Use the scale shown below to draw a box and whisker diagram showing the distribution of
the weights of the potatoes. You may assume there are no outliers.

3a. [3 marks]
A college runs a mathematics course in the morning. Scores for a test from this class
are shown below.
25 33 51 62 63 63 70 74 79 79 81 88 90 90 98
For these data, the lower quartile is 62 and the upper quartile is 88.
Show that the test score of 25 would not be considered an outlier.
3b. [2 marks]
The box and whisker diagram showing these scores is given below.

Test scores
Another mathematics class is run by the college during the evening. A box and
whisker diagram showing the scores from this class for the same test is given below.

Test scores
A researcher reviews the box and whisker diagrams and believes that the evening
class performed better than the morning class.
With reference to the box and whisker diagrams, state one aspect that may support the
researcher’s opinion and one aspect that may counter it.
4a. [2 marks]
The scores of the eight highest scoring countries in the 2019 Eurovision song contest
are shown in the following table.

For this data, find

the upper quartile.

4b. [2 marks]
the interquartile range.

4c. [3 marks]
Determine if the Netherlands’ score is an outlier for this data. Justify your answer.
4d. [2 marks]
Chester is investigating the relationship between the highest-scoring countries’
Eurovision score and their population size to determine whether population size can
reasonably be used to predict a country’s score.
The populations of the countries, to the nearest million, are shown in the table.

Chester finds that, for this data, the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient is 𝑟 =
0.249.
State whether it would be appropriate for Chester to use the equation of a regression line
for 𝑦 on 𝑥 to predict a country’s Eurovision score. Justify your answer.
4e. [1 mark]
Chester then decides to find the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient for this data, and
creates a table of ranks.

Write down the value of:

𝑎.

4f. [1 mark]
𝑏.

4g. [1 mark]
𝑐.

4h. [2 marks]
Find the value of the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient 𝑟𝑠 .
4i. [1 mark]
Interpret the value obtained for 𝑟𝑠 .

4j. [1 mark]
When calculating the ranks, Chester incorrectly read the Netherlands’ score as 478. Explain
why the value of the Spearman’s rank correlation 𝑟𝑠 does not change despite this error.

5a. [1 mark]
Mackenzie conducted an experiment on the reaction times of teenagers. The results of the
experiment are displayed in the following cumulative frequency graph.

Use the graph to estimate the

median reaction time.
5b. [3 marks]
interquartile range of the reaction times.

5c. [2 marks]
Find the estimated number of teenagers who have a reaction time greater than 0.4 seconds.

5d. [2 marks]
Determine the 90th percentile of the reaction times from the cumulative frequency graph.

5e. [1 mark]
Mackenzie created the cumulative frequency graph using the following grouped frequency
table.

Write down the value of 𝑎.

5f. [1 mark]
Write down the value of 𝑏.

5g. [1 mark]
Write down the modal class from the table.
5h. [2 marks]
Use your graphic display calculator to find an estimate of the mean reaction time.

5i. [4 marks]
Upon completion of the experiment, Mackenzie realized that some values were
grouped incorrectly in the frequency table. Some reaction times recorded in the interval
0 < 𝑡 ≤ 0.2 should have been recorded in the interval 0.2 < 𝑡 ≤ 0.4.
Suggest how, if at all, the estimated mean and estimated median reaction times will change
if the errors are corrected. Justify your response.

6a. [1 mark]
A group of 120 students sat a history exam. The cumulative frequency graph shows
the scores obtained by the students.

Find the median of the scores obtained.

6b. [2 marks]
The students were awarded a grade from 1 to 5, depending on the score obtained in the
exam. The number of students receiving each grade is shown in the following table.

Find an expression for 𝑎 in terms of 𝑏.

6c. [3 marks]
The mean grade for these students is 3.65.
Find the number of students who obtained a grade 5.

6d. [2 marks]
Find the minimum score needed to obtain a grade 5.

7a. [1 mark]
Deb used a thermometer to record the maximum daily temperature over ten consecutive
days. Her results, in degrees Celsius (C), are shown below.
14, 15, 14, 11, 10, 9, 14, 15, 16, 13
For this data set, find the value of
the mode.
7b. [2 marks]
the mean.

7c. [1 mark]
the standard deviation.

8a. [1 mark]
The number of sick days taken by each employee in a company during a year was
recorded. The data was organized in a box and whisker diagram as shown below:

For this data, write down

the minimum number of sick days taken during the year.

8b. [1 mark]
the lower quartile.
8c. [1 mark]
the median.

8d. [2 marks]
Paul claims that this box and whisker diagram can be used to infer that the percentage
of employees who took fewer than six sick days is smaller than the percentage of
employees who took more than eleven sick days.
State whether Paul is correct. Justify your answer.

9a. [1 mark]
As part of his mathematics exploration about classic books, Jason investigated the time
taken by students in his school to read the book The Old Man and the Sea. He collected his
data by stopping and asking students in the school corridor, until he reached his target of
10 students from each of the literature classes in his school.
State which of the two sampling methods, systematic or quota, Jason has used.

9b. [1 mark]
Jason constructed the following box and whisker diagram to show the number of hours
students in the sample took to read this book.

Write down the median time to read the book.

9c. [2 marks]
Calculate the interquartile range.

9d. [4 marks]
Mackenzie, a member of the sample, took 25 hours to read the novel. Jason believes
Mackenzie’s time is not an outlier.
Determine whether Jason is correct. Support your reasoning.

9e. [1 mark]
For each student interviewed, Jason recorded the time taken to read The Old Man and the
Sea (𝑥), measured in hours, and paired this with their percentage score on the final exam
(𝑦). These data are represented on the scatter diagram.

Describe the correlation.

9f. [2 marks]
Jason correctly calculates the equation of the regression line 𝑦 on 𝑥 for these students to be
𝑦 = −1.54𝑥 + 98.8.
He uses the equation to estimate the percentage score on the final exam for a student
who read the book in 1.5 hours.
Find the percentage score calculated by Jason.

9g. [2 marks]
State whether it is valid to use the regression line 𝑦 on 𝑥 for Jason’s estimate. Give a reason
for your answer.

9h. [2 marks]
Jason found a website that rated the ‘top 50’ classic books. He randomly chose eight of
these classic books and recorded the number of pages. For example, Book H is rated 44th
and has 281 pages. These data are shown in the table.

Jason intends to analyse the data using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, 𝑟𝑠 .
Copy and complete the information in the following table.
9i. [2 marks]
Calculate the value of 𝑟𝑠 .

9j. [1 mark]
Interpret your result.

10a. [2 marks]
Each athlete on a running team recorded the distance (𝑀 miles) they ran in 30 minutes.
The median distance is 4 miles and the interquartile range is 1.1 miles.
This information is shown in the following box-and-whisker plot.

Find the value of 𝑎.

10b. [1 mark]
The distance in miles, 𝑀, can be converted to the distance in kilometres, 𝐾, using the
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formula 𝐾 = 5 𝑀.

Write down the value of the median distance in kilometres (km).

10c. [4 marks]
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The variance of the distances run by the athletes is km2 .
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The standard deviation of the distances is 𝑏 miles.

Find the value of 𝑏.

10d. [3 marks]
A total of 600 athletes from different teams compete in a 5 km race. The times the 600
athletes took to run the 5 km race are shown in the following cumulative frequency graph.

There were 400 athletes who took between 22 and 𝑚 minutes to complete the 5 km race.
Find 𝑚.
10e. [5 marks]
The first 150 athletes that completed the race won a prize.
Given that an athlete took between 22 and 𝑚 minutes to complete the 5 km race, calculate
the probability that they won a prize.

11a. [1 mark]
Hafizah harvested 49 mangoes from her farm. The weights of the mangoes, 𝑤, in grams, are
shown in the following grouped frequency table.

Write down the modal group for these data.

11b. [2 marks]
Use your graphic display calculator to find an estimate of the standard deviation of
the weights of mangoes from this harvest.
11c. [3 marks]
On the grid below, draw a histogram for the data in the table.
12a. [2 marks]
Anne-Marie planted four sunflowers in order of height, from shortest to tallest.

Flower C is 32 cm tall.
The median height of the flowers is 24 cm.
Find the height of Flower B.

12b. [1 mark]
The range of the heights is 50 cm. The height of Flower A is 𝑝 cm and the height of Flower D
is 𝑞 cm.
Using this information, write down an equation in 𝑝 and 𝑞.
12c. [1 mark]
The mean height of the flowers is 27 cm.
Write down a second equation in 𝑝 and 𝑞.

12d. [1 mark]
Using your answers to parts (b) and (c), find the height of Flower A.

12e. [1 mark]
Using your answers to parts (b) and (c), find the height of Flower D.

13a. [2 marks]
Fiona walks from her house to a bus stop where she gets a bus to school. Her time, 𝑊
minutes, to walk to the bus stop is normally distributed with 𝑊 ∼ N(12, 32 ).
Fiona always leaves her house at 07:15. The first bus that she can get departs at 07:30.
Find the probability that it will take Fiona between 15 minutes and 30 minutes to walk
to the bus stop.
13b. [3 marks]
The length of time, 𝐵 minutes, of the bus journey to Fiona’s school is normally
distributed with 𝐵 ∼ N(50, 𝜎 2 ). The probability that the bus journey takes less than 60
minutes is 0.941.
Find 𝜎.

13c. [2 marks]
Find the probability that the bus journey takes less than 45 minutes.

13d. [5 marks]
If Fiona misses the first bus, there is a second bus which departs at 07:45. She must
arrive at school by 08:30 to be on time. Fiona will not arrive on time if she misses both
buses. The variables 𝑊 and 𝐵 are independent.
Find the probability that Fiona will arrive on time.

13e. [2 marks]
This year, Fiona will go to school on 183 days.
Calculate the number of days Fiona is expected to arrive on time.
14a. [1 mark]
Chicken eggs are classified by grade (4, 5, 6, 7 or 8), based on weight. A mixed
carton contains 12 eggs and could include eggs from any grade. As part of the science
project, Rocky buys 9 mixed cartons and sorts the eggs according to their weight.

State whether the weight of the eggs is a continuous or discrete variable.

14b. [1 mark]
Write down the modal grade of the eggs.

14c. [2 marks]
Use your graphic display calculator to find an estimate for the standard deviation of
the weight of the eggs.

14d. [2 marks]
The mean weight of these eggs is 64.9 grams, correct to three significant figures.
Use the table and your answer to part (c) to find the smallest possible number of eggs that
could be within one standard deviation of the mean.