GCSE MATHS QUICK REVISION – AVERAGES FROM TABLES…

Find the median of this set of numbers:

11, 12, 10, 9, 9, 10, 26
Does this data set contain an outlier? If so,
circle it.
Andy did a survey of the number of cups of
coffee some pupils in his school had drunk
yesterday.
The frequency table shows his results.
Rosie had 10 boxes of drawing pins. She
counted the number of drawing pins in each
box.
The table gives information about her
results.

a) Work out the number of pupils that

Andy asked. a) Work out the median number of drawing
pins in a box.
From the table above, calculate the:

a) Mode
b) Work out the mean number of cups of b) Work out the mean number of drawing
coffee drunk. pins in a box.
b) Range

c) Median

The average weight of the 11 players in a football team was ASSESSMENT:

d) Mean
72.5kg. The average weight of the 5 reserve players was
75.6kg. What was the average weight of the whole squad?
 GCSE MATHS QUICK REVISION – AVERAGES FROM GROUPED DATA…

Bob asked 40 of his friends how many 80 people work in Jenny’s factory. Marcus collected some pebbles.
minutes they took to get to work. The table shows some information about the He weighed each pebble.
The table shows some information about his annual pay of these 80 workers. The grouped frequency table gives some
results. information about weights.

a) Find the class interval that contains the

median.

a) Write down the modal class interval.

a) State the modal class.

b) Work out an estimate for the mean b) Work out an estimate for the mean
b) Find the group containing the median. annual pay. weight of the pebbles.

c) Work out an estimate for the mean time

taken.

Why is it that the mean from a grouped frequency table is ASSESSMENT:

always only an estimate?