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Scattergraphs
Question 1
Information about oil was
recorded each year for 12 years.
The scatter graph shows the
amount of oil produced (in billions
of barrels) and the average price
of oil (in £ per barrel).
(a) Draw a line of best fit on
the scatter graph.
In another year the amount of oil
produced was 10.4 billion barrels.
(b) Use your line of best fit to
estimate the average price of oil
per barrel in that year.

Question 2
The table lists the weights of twelve books and the number
of pages in each one. This information is presented below as
a scattergraph.

(a) Draw a line of best fit

on your scatter graph.
(b) Use your line of best
fit to estimate
i) the number of pages in a
book of weight 280 g,
ii)the weight, in grams, of a
book with 110 pages.
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Venn Diagrams

A good revision link: http://www.mathsisfun.com/sets/venn-diagrams.html

Example 1
Out of forty students, 14 are taking English Composition and 29 are taking Chemistry.
a) If five students are in both classes, how many students are in neither class?
b) How many are in either class?
c) What is the probability that a randomly-chosen student from this group is taking only the
Chemistry class?

There are two classifications in this universe: English students and Chemistry students.

First I'll draw my universe for the forty students,

with two overlapping circles labelled with the total in
each:

Since five students are taking both classes,

I'll put "5" in the overlap.

I've now accounted for five of the 14 English

students, leaving nine students taking English but not
Chemistry, so I'll put "9" in the "English only" part of
the "English" circle:

I've also accounted for five of the 29

Chemistry students, leaving 24 students
taking Chemistry but not English, so I'll put
"24" in the "Chemistry only" part of the
"Chemistry" circle.

This tells me that a total of 9 + 5 + 24 = 38 students

are in either English or Chemistry (or both). This
leaves two students unaccounted for, so they must be
the ones taking neither class.

From this populated Venn diagram, I can get the answers to the questions.
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Two students are taking neither class.
There are 38 students in at least one of the classes.
There is a 24/40 = 0.6 = 60% probability that a randomly-chosen student in this group is
taking Chemistry but not English.

Question 1
Suppose I discovered that my cat had a taste for the adorable little geckoes that live in the bushes and vines
in my yard, back when I lived in Arizona. In one month, suppose he deposited the following on my carpet: six
gray geckoes, twelve geckoes that had dropped their tails in an effort to escape capture, and fifteen geckoes
that he'd chewed on a little. Only one of the geckoes was gray, chewed on, and tailless; two were gray and
tailless but not chewed on; two were gray and chewed on but not tailless. If there were a total of 24 geckoes
left on my carpet that month, and all of the geckoes were at least one of "gray", "tailless", and "chewed on",
how many were tailless and chewed on but not gray?

Example 2
The probability that a student belongs to a club is P(C)=0.4. The probability that a student works part time is
P(PT)=0.5.
The probability that a student belongs to a club AND works part time is P(C and PT)=0.05.
What is the probability that a student belongs to a club OR works part time??

Answer:

Formula:

Question 2
A = owns a car B = has a pet
P(A) = 0.87 P(B) = 0.57 P(A and B) = 0.53

What is the probability that a student owns a car OR has a pet?

Question 3
A survey finds that 56% of people are married. They ask the same group of people, and 67% have at least one
child. If there are 41% that are married and have at least one child, what is the probability that a person in the
survey is married OR has a child?
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Histograms
1. One Monday, Victoria measured the time, in seconds, that individual birds spent on her bird table.

She used this information to complete the frequency table.

Time (t seconds) Frequency

0 < t  10 8

10 < t  20 16

20 < t  25 15

25 < t  30 12

30 < t  50 6

(a) Use the table to complete the histogram.

F req u en cy
d en sity

0 10 20 30 40 50
Tim e (seco n d s)
(3)

On Tuesday she conducted a similar survey and drew the following histogram from her results.

F req u en cy
d en sity

0 10 20 30 40 50
Tim e (seco n d s)
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2. The table and histogram give information about how long, in minutes, some students took to
complete a homework.
Time (t) in minutes Frequency
0 < t ≤ 10 20
10 < t ≤ 15
15 < t ≤ 30
30 < t ≤ 50 62
50 < t ≤ 60 23

F req u en cy
d en sity

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Tim e (m in u tes)

(a) Use the information in the histogram to complete the table.

(b) Use the table to complete the histogram.

(4)

3. The table and histogram show information about the length of time it took 165 adults
to connect to the internet.
Time (t seconds) Frequency
0 < t ≤ 10 20
10 < t ≤ 15
15 < t ≤ 17.5 30
17.5 < t ≤ 20 40
20< t ≤ 25
25< t ≤ 40

None of the adults took more than 40 seconds to connect to the internet.
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(a) Use the table to complete the histogram.

(b) Use the histogram to complete the table.

2003
F req u en cy
d en sity

O 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40

Tim e (seco n d s)

5. Fred did a survey on the areas of pictures in a newspaper.

The table gives information about the areas.
2 Frequency Mid Point
Area (A cm )
0< A  10 38
10 < A  25 36
25 < A  40 30
40 < A  60 46
(a) Work out an estimate for the mean area of a picture.

(b) Draw a histogram for the information given in the table.

0 10 20 30 40 50 60
A rea ( A cm )
2
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Cumulative Frequency Curves
Question 1
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Question 2