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1.1 Statistical Measures

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Course CIE A Level Maths

Section 1. Data Presentation & Interpretation
Topic 1.1 Statistical Measures
Difficulty Medium

Time allowed: 60

Score: /45

Percentage: /100

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Question 1
A pharmacy sells face masks in a variety of sizes. Their sales over a week are recorded in the table below:
Kids Adults
Size Small Large S M L XL
Frequency f 29 4 8 24 15 4

(i)

Write down the mode for this data.

(ii)
Explain why, in this case, the mode from part (i) would not be particularly helpful to the shop owner when reordering masks.
(iii)
Given that the shop is open every day of the week, calculate the mean number of masks sold per day.
[4 marks]

Question 2
Fran sits three Maths papers and six Science papers during her final A Level exams. She achieves a mean score of 62.7%
across the three Maths exam papers, and needs an overall mean score of 78.5% across all nine papers to get into her chosen
University. After getting the results of four out of her six Science papers, her mean score in Science is 84.2%.
Given that each of the nine papers is weighted equally when working out the mean scores, calculate the mean score she
must achieve on her final two science papers in order to gain a place at University.
[4 marks]

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Question 3a
Coffee4Life manufactures reusable coffee cups out of coffee plant waste. Coffee cups are tested to see how many times
they can be used before they begin to disintegrate. A sample of 16 cups are tested, giving the following results for numbers
of uses:
31 36 40 41
47 49 51 56
58 62 62 62
64 68 69 70
(I)
Write down the modal number of times a cup can be used.
(ii)
Find the values of the lower quartile, median and upper quartile.
(iii)
25% of the results are greater than or equal to p uses.
Find the value of p .
[4 marks]

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Question 3b
The advertising department at Coffee4Life designs an advert which says;
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“If used once a day, of our cups last longer than 9 weeks.”
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Explain the mistake that the advertising department has made, and state how the advert could be reworded to make it
correct.
[2 marks]

Question 4
The lengths (l cm) of a sample of nine otters, measured to the nearest centimetre by a wildlife research team, are:
76 77 91 65 63 83 92 61 88
Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the nine recorded lengths.
[3 marks]

Question 5a
A machine is set to fill sacks of potatoes to a weight of 50 kg .

In a random sample of 7 sacks the following weights in kg were recorded:∑(w − 50) = − 14. 6 , where w kg is the weight of a
sack of potatoes.
Show that the mean weight of the sampled sacks of potatoes is less than 50 kg .
[2 marks]

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Question 5b
Given that ∑(w − 50) 2 = 170 . 2 , find the standard deviation of the sampled sacks of potatoes.
[4 marks]

Question 6a
During initial small aircraft pilot training candidates must sit an aptitude test. Grades for the latest 28 candidates are shown in
the table below (0 is the lowest grade, 8 is the highest);
Grade Frequency f
0 2
1 3
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 2
6 5
7 4
8 3
Candidate in the bottom 25% are qualified.
Calculate the grade candidates must achieve to avoid disqualification.
[2 marks]

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Question 6b
Those who score in the top 25% move on to the next stage of training while the rest (other than those who have been
disqualified) must re-sit the test..
One of the candidates, Amelia, achieves grade 6 . Determine whether Amelia will need to re-sit the test or will be moved on to
the next stage of training.
[3 marks]

Question 7a
A random sample of 50 students were asked how long they spent revising for their Math exam in the 24 hours before the
exam. The results are shown in the table below:
Time t (minutes) Number of students f
0 ≤ t < 60 5
60 ≤ t < 120 6
120 ≤ t < 180 17
180 ≤ t < 240 14
240 ≤ t < 300 8
Write down the modal group for these data.
[1 mark]

Question 7b
Using x to represent the mid-point of each class, ∑ xf = 8340 and ∑ x 2 f = 1636 200 .
Estimate the mean and the standard deviation of the amount of time students spent revising.
[3 marks]

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Question 8
A college needs to standardise the test scores of all students before submitting them to the Exam Board. The scores are
standardised by using the coding ∑(x − 53) , where x represents the raw test score. The college calculates the mean
standardised test score to be 42 and the standard deviation to be 3.1. Find the mean and standard deviation of the raw test
scores.
[2 marks]

Question 9
The times, in seconds, taken by 8 skaters to finish a 1000 m race are listed below:
75 77 82 84 79 81 80 76
By using an appropriate assumed mean, calculate the true mean and true standard deviation of the speed skaters' times.
[4 marks]

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Question 10a
A golfer records her scores for her last 8 rounds of golf, which are given below.
73 75 81 72 76 99 80 78

(i)
Find the median (Q 2) , the lower quartile (Q 1) and the upper quartile (Q 3) .
(ii)
Find the interquartile range.
[4 marks]

Question 10b
An outlier is defined as any value x such that
x < Q 1 − 1 . 5 × (Q 3 − Q 1) or x > Q 3 + 1 . 5 × (Q 3 − Q 1)

(i)
Find the boundaries that determine outliers for the golfer's scores.
(ii)
Hence determine if any of the golfer's last 8 scores were outliers.
[3 marks]

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