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The document contains 12 problems involving statistics and probability concepts such as calculating mean, median, mode, and drawing histograms and pie charts from frequency data. The problems analyze data on topics like car colors, internet usage, temperatures, swimming lengths, text messages, dice rolls, soccer goals, survey preferences, time spent repairing appliances and talking on phones, and puzzle completion times.

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Ws Statistics and Probability

The document contains 12 problems involving statistics and probability concepts such as calculating mean, median, mode, and drawing histograms and pie charts from frequency data. The problems analyze data on topics like car colors, internet usage, temperatures, swimming lengths, text messages, dice rolls, soccer goals, survey preferences, time spent repairing appliances and talking on phones, and puzzle completion times.

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Statistics and Probability

1 Sara carries out a survey of the colours of cars in a car park.


She draws a pie chart to represent her results.

(a) There are 7 red cars.


The angle representing the red cars is 40º.

Calculate the total number of cars in the car park.

(b) Sara’s pie chart is a circle with circumference 28 cm.

Find, in terms of π, the diameter of the circle.


2 Ida keeps a record of time spent on the internet each day.
Her results are summarised in the table.

Time (t minutes) Frequency


0 艋 t ⬍ 10 4
10 艋 t ⬍ 30 20
30 艋 t ⬍ 60 39
60 艋 t ⬍ 100 32
100 艋 t ⬍ 120 6

Draw a histogram to show these results.

3 The temperatures, in °C, at midnight on 12 consecutive days were

–1, 0, – 4, 1, 2, –2 –1, –3, 1, 2, 3, 2 .

(a) Find the mode of these temperatures.


(b) Find the median of these temperatures.

4 The temperatures, in °C , at midnight on 10 consecutive days were

4, 1, 0, –2, –1, –3, 1, –2, 3, –1.

(a) Find the difference between the highest and the lowest temperature.
(b) How many of these temperatures are within 2.5 °C of 1 °C ?

The table shows the distribution of the number of complete lengths swum by a group of swimmers.

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Number of complete lengths (n) 0 ⬍ n ⭐ 20 20 ⬍ n ⭐ 40 40 ⬍ n ⭐ 60 60 ⬍ n ⭐ 80
Frequency 5 20 10 5

(a) Find the modal class.


(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean.
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Jamil recorded the number of text messages sent by the students in his class on one day.
The results are shown in the bar chart.

Frequency 4

0
3 4 5 6 7 8
Number of text messages

Use the bar chart to find

(a) the number of students in Jamil’s class,

(b) the median number of text messages sent,


(c) the modal number of text messages sent.

7 The table shows the results when a 6-sided die was thrown 50 times.

Score 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 7 7 6 9 11 10

(a) Write down the modal score.


(b) Calculate the mean score.

8 The table shows the number of goals scored by 40 football teams during one weekend.

Number of goals 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
Number of teams 16 6 6 6 4 0 2

Find

(a) the mode,


(b) the median,
(c) the mean.
9 In a survey, some people were asked which of three songs, labelled A, B and C, they liked best.
The diagram shows part of a pie chart illustrating the results.
The angle of the sector that represents the people who liked C best is 168°.

(a) Complete the pie chart. [1]

B
C

45°

(b) Expressing your answer in its lowest terms, find the fraction of people in the survey
who liked C best.

(c) Given that 30 people liked A best, calculate the number of people in the survey.

10 The distribution of the lengths of time taken by an engineer to repair some washing machines is given
in the table.

Time (t hours) 1<t3 3<t4 4<t5 5<t8


Frequency k 5 4 3

The histogram represents some of this information.

Frequency 3
density
2

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Time (hours)

(a) Find k.
(b) Complete the histogram.
11 A group of 100 students was asked how many minutes each spent talking on their mobile phone
during one day.
The histogram summarises this information.

2
Frequency
density

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Time (mins)

(a) Use the histogram to

(i) find the number of students who spent between 0 and 10 minutes talking on their
mobile phone,
(ii) estimate the number of students who spent between 25 and 65 minutes talking on their
mobile phone.
(b) A pie chart is drawn to represent the information shown in the histogram.

Calculate the angle of the sector that represents the students who spent
between 0 and 10 minutes talking on their mobile phone.

12 The table summarises the times, in minutes, taken by a group of people to complete a puzzle.

Time (t minutes) 0<t4 4<t8 8 < t  12 12 < t  16 16 < t  20


Frequency 4 8 7 4 2

(a) On the grid draw a frequency polygon to represent this information.

(b) Write down the modal class.

(c) How many people took more than 8 minutes to complete the puzzle?

(d) Imran says:

‘The longest time to complete the puzzle was 20 minutes.’

Explain why he may not be correct.

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