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Secondary 2 Multiple-Choice Questions

Chapter 11 Statistics

1. If the mean and the median of the numbers 2, 3, x, x, 9, 10, where 3 < x < 9, are equal, then x is equal to
1 1 1
(a) 5 2 (b) 6 (c) 6 2 (d) 7 (e) 7 2 ( )

2. A pie chart is drawn to represent the languages spoken by 72 workers, of whom 22 speak only Malay, 32 speak
only Chinese, and 18 speak neither. Find the angle, in degrees, of the sector representing those who speak
neither language.
(a) 30° (b) 60° (c) 90° (d) 120° (e) 150° ( )

3. If the information shown in the bar chart is represented on a pie chart, the angle of the smallest sector is:
1
(a) 22 2 ° (b) 45° (c) 60° (d) 90° (e) 108° ( )

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Numbers of Pupils

20

10

0
sec 1 sec 2 sec 3 sec 4

Questions 4 and 5 refer to the pie chart, which shows the favourite fruit of a group of 40 people.

4. How many of the people like durian?

(a) 25 (b) 20 (c) 15 (d) 10 (e) 5 ( )

Mango Rambutan
12 people

135°
Guava
Durian

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5. The ratio of the people who like mango, to those who like guava, is:
(a) 10 : 1 (b) 4 : 1 (c) 1 : 4 (d) 10 : 3 (e) 3:10 ( )

6. During a season, the goals scored by a soccer team in 15 matches were as follows:

Goals scored in a match 0 1 2 3 4

Frequency 1 6 3 2 3

The mean number of goals scored was

(a) 1 (b) 1.5 (c) 2 (d) 2.5 (e) 3 ( )

7. The mean, median, and mode of the numbers 2, 3, 3, 3, 6, 6, 8, 17 are, respectively

(a) 4.5, 6, 3 (b) 6, 6, 3 (c) 6, 5, 3 (d) 5, 6, 3 (e) 6, 4.5, 3 ( )

Answers

1. b 2. c 3. b 4. c 5. b 6. c 7. e

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 XYZ SECONDARY SCHOOL

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Secondary 2 Mathematics Test

Chapter 11 Statistics

1. The table below shows the frequency distribution of the number of grammatical mistakes made by each student
in a class of 40.

Number of mistakes 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Number of students 4 8 12 4 6 4 2

Find the (a) mean, [2]

(b) median, [1]
(c) mode of the distribution. [1]

2. The temperatures, in degree Celsius (°C), each day over a three-week period was as follows:
27, 28, 30, 32, 31, 29, 26, 25, 28, 30, 31, 31, 32, 31, 29, 30, 29, 27, 26, 26, 27.
Calculate the (a) mean, [2]
(b) median, [2]
(c) mode of the data. [1]

3. The table below shows the frequency distribution of the number of school-going children, per family, in a small
town.

Number of school-going children 0 1 2 3 4

Frequency 12 6 7 3 2

Find the (a) mean, [2]

(b) median, [1]
(c) mode of the distribution. [1]

4. A Primary 5 class consisting of 25 students was given an 8-question quiz on fractions. The following data
provide the number of incorrect answers from each student:

3 1 0 0 2
4 1 5 3 0
2 6 1 4 3
3 1 2 0 1
1 2 1 3 1

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 (a) Copy and complete the following frequency table. [2]

Number of incorrect answers 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Number of students 4 1 1

(b) Find the (i) mean, [2]

(ii) median, [1]
(iii) mode of the distribution. [1]

5. A car sales representative keeps track of the number of cars he sells per week. The number of cars he sold per
week in 1996 was as follows:

2 3 0 4 4 1 0 1 1 3 2 5 2
1 0 3 3 1 0 2 1 4 0 4 1 2
5 1 0 2 5 3 1 3 1 1 1 1 2
3 6 4 3 0 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 3

(a) Copy and complete the following frequency table:

Number of cars sold 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Number of weeks 7 9 1
[2]

(b) Find the (i) mean, [2]

(ii) median, [1]
(iii) mode of the distribution. [1]

6. The dot diagram represents the heights, in cm, of 20 plants.

56 59 60 61 62 63 64 65

(a) What is the most common height of the plants? [1]

(b) What is the shortest height of the plants? [1]
(c) What is the percentage of plants with a height above 62 cm? [2]

7. The following data represent the travel time of thirty company executives, from home to office.

2 0 3 4
2 6 6 7 8 9 9
3 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 3 4
3 5 6 6 7 7 9
4 0 2 8
4 6 7

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 (a) Write down the name of this diagram. [1]
(b) What is the most common travel time? [1]
(c) What is the percentage of executives who take less than half an hour to reach the office? Comment briefly
on what the data indicates. [3]

8. The scores for 60 students, in their attitudes towards older people, are represented in the following frequency
distribution.

Attitude score 10 12 13 14 15 16 17

Frequency 2 8 10 14 12 8 6

Find the (a) median, (b) mean, (c) mode. [4]

9. 400 students were asked how many hours they had spent on watching television during the preceding week.
The results are represented in the following frequency distribution.

Number of hours 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Number of students 72 106 153 40 18 7 3 0 1

Find the (a) mean, [2]

(b) median, [1]
(c) mode. [1]

10. In a survey that recorded the number of times students of a Secondary-2 class arrived late for school, the
following data resulted.

Number of times 0 1 2 3 4

Number of students 2 12 6 8 x

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(a) If the mean of the distribution is 1 15 , find x. [2]
(b) If the mode is 1, find the largest possible value of x. [1]
(c) If the median is 2, find the largest possible value of x. [2]

11. The number of illnesses suffered by Secondary-2 students, in a school are shown in the following table:

Number of illnesses 0 1 2 3

Number of students 42 15 6 2

(a) Find the (i) mean number of illnesses, [2]

(ii) median number of illnesses. [1]
(b) For 55 Secondary-1 students from the same school, the mean number of illnesses was 1.2. Find the mean
number of illnesses for the 120 students. [2]

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12. The numbers 2, 6, 9, 11 and x are arranged in an ascending order. If the mean of the numbers is equal to the
median, find x. [2]

13. 200 golfers play a certain hole. Their scores are given below:

Score 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Number of players 5 16 50 64 35 19 11

Find the (a) mean score, [2]

(b) median score, [1]
(c) modal score. [1]

14. The scores of a group of students, in a test, are given below:

19, 21, 20, 14, 10, 12, 11, 14, 13, 11, 16, 17, 12, 11, 10,
18, 17, 12, 14, 15, 18, 13, 12, 24, 22, 19, 21, 21, 23, 22.

(a) Copy and complete the table given. [2]

Score Mid-value (x) Frequency (f) fx

10–12
13–15
16–18
19–21
22–24
∑f = 30 ∑fx =

(b) Find the mean score and the modal class. [4]

15. The mean, median, and the mode of 4 numbers are 37, 39, and 42, respectively. Find the mean of the largest
and the smallest numbers. [4]

16. In an English test, the mean score of 40 students was 11.3. John, one of the 40 students, scored 9 marks. Later,
it was discovered that John’s score was recorded wrongly. After John’s score was corrected, the new mean score
of the 40 students became 11.4. What was John’s correct score? [3]

17. 5 children have different ages. The mean age of the 3 youngest children is 4 years, and the mean age of the
3 oldest children is 10 years. If the mean age of all the 5 children is 6.8 years, what is the median age of the
5 children? [4]

18.
Mark 13 14 15 16 17 18

Number of pupils 2 3 6 4 3 2

The table shows the number of students in a class, who scored marks 13 to 18 in a test. Find the
(a) mean mark, [2]
(b) modal mark, [1]
(c) median mark. [1]

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19. Five coins were tossed 1 000 times. At each toss the number of heads was recorded. The results were obtained
as shown in the table below:

Number of heads 0 1 2 3 4 5

Number of tosses 38 144 342 287 164 25

(a) Draw a histogram to represent the results. [3]

(b) Calculate the mean number of heads. [2]

20. A student recorded ten measurements of the diameter of a cylinder as follows:

38.8, 40.9, 39.2, 39.7, x, 39.5, 40.3, 39.2, 39.8, and 40.6 mm, respectively. Given that the mean of the
measurements is 39.8 mm, find the value of x and the median of the measurements. [3]

21. The number of requests for a weekly magazine, over a period of 200 weeks, are shown in the following table:

Number of requests per week 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Number of weeks 20 46 42 32 12 10 12 14 2 10

(a) Draw a histogram to represent the data. [3]

(b) Find the (i) mean number of requests per week, [3]
(ii) median number of requests in a week. [1]

22. The table shows the number of goals scored in 50 football matches in a competition.

Number of goals 0 1 2 3 4 5

Number of matches 10 15 9 6 6 x

(a) If the mean number of goals scored per match is 1.9, find x. [2]
(b) If the mode is 1, find the largest possible value of x. [1]
(c) If the median is 3, find the largest value of x. [1]

23. The table shows the distribution of marks, out of 10, scored by a group of Secondary-2 students in a test.

Mark 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Number of students 7 9 12 15 28 40 45 64 38 27 15

Find the (a) total number of students who sat for the test. [1]
(b) the modal, median, and the mean scores. [4]

24. The ages of 13 members of a club are as follows:

28, 31, 33, 31, 41, 41, 31, 42, 35, 34, 31, 25, 39

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 (a) State the mode. [1]
(b) Find the (i) mean, [2]
(ii) median of the thirteen numbers. [1]
(c) When a new member joins the club, the new mean age of the members is 35 years. Calculate the age of
the new member. [2]

25. The marks scored by a group of students, in a test, were:

11, 13, 15, 15, 17, 17, 17, x, 20, 21.
Given the mean mark is 0.5 smaller than the median mark, find the value of x and state the modal mark. [4]

26. If A is the median of the numbers 39, 7, 2, 15, 18, 21, 13, and B the median of 28, 19, 15, 1, 3, 27, 7, 3, 27, 10,
find the value of A–B. [3]

27. The table below displays the stem and leaf diagram of the heights of a group of students.

Stem Leaf
15 55888
16 00005

(a) Show that the difference between the median and the mode of the distribution is 1. [2]
(b) Find the mean of the distribution. [2]

28. The table shows the distribution of marks scored by students in a test.

Mark 40 50 60 70

Number of students 4 13 6 7

Find the (a) mean mark, [2]

(b) median mark. [1]

29. The number of printing errors, per page, in a book with 200 pages was recorded in the following table:

Number of errors 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Number of pages 124 50 18 4 2 1 1

Find the (a) mean, [2]

(b) median, [1]
(c) mode of the distribution. [1]

30. Given the following numbers 2, 11, 16, 4, 6, 10, 13, 4, 11, 13, 5, 10, 11, 3, 16, find the (a) mode, (b) median,
(c) mean. [4]

31. For the set of numbers a – 7, a – 5, a + 1, a + 3, a + 5, a + 7,

(a) obtain an expression for the median, [2]
(b) obtain an expression for the mean. [2]

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Given that the mean of this set of numbers is 4 3 , find the value of a. [3]

Number of microcomputers sold 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Number of days 2 3 6 9 4 4 2

32. The table shows the number of microcomputers a shop sold per day during a period of 30 days.
Calculate the (a) median, (b) mean number of microcomputers sold. [4]

33. The mean mark of a class of 21 pupils, who sat for an English test, was 56. If Alice, who obtained 36 marks,
left the class, what would the new mean mark of the class be? [3]

34. A bag contained five balls, with each bearing one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. A ball was drawn from the
bag, its number noted, and then replaced. This was repeated 60 times. The table below shows the resulting
frequency distribution.

Number 1 2 3 4 5

Frequency 17 13 9 10 11

For this distribution, find the

(a) mode, (b) median, and (c) mean. [4]

35. (a) Find the mean of each of the following sets of numbers:
(i) 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 16 [2]
(ii) 404, 407, 408, 411, 414, 416 [2]
(b) Given that 10.2 is the mean of 3, x, 11, 15 and 17, find x. [3]

36. The dot diagram represents the number of correct answers obtained by pupils in a Science test.

●
●
● ●
● ● ●
● ● ● ● ● ●
● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

(a) How many pupils did the Science test? [1]

(b) What is the most common number of correct answers obtained by pupils? [1]
(c) What is the percentage of pupils who answered less than 5 questions correctly? [3]

37. The number of goals scored by a football team, in each of the 30 matches, was as follows.
2 1 3 3 0 0 4 0 1 3
3 3 2 5 1 0 1 2 0 4
0 4 1 6 2 4 1 0 5 5

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 (a) Complete the frequency table in the answer space. [2]

Number of goals scored 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

Number of matches 4 4 3

(b) Find the mode, median, and mean. [4]

38. The scores of a Geography test, taken by 2 classes, are given by the following stem and leaf diagram.

Class A Class B

2 1
9 2
8 3
9 4
8 7 5
7 7 6 0 0 1 2 2
9 8 7 3 4 6
8 6 5 3 3 8 0 1 2 4 5
2 1 0 9 9
9 1 1 1 4 8

(a) How many students are there in each class? [2]

(b) How many students failed the test in each class (a score < 50) ? [2]
(c) How many students scored 90 or higher? [2]
(d) Comment on the distribution of each class. [2]
(e) How would you judge which class performed best? [2]

39. Sixty motorists were surveyed to find the amount, in complete dollars, spent on petrol per month. The results
are displayed in a stem and leaf diagram as shown below.

Stem Leaf

15 2 6 8
16 3 6 7 9
17 3 3 4 8 8 9 9
18 1 3 3 3 4 5 6 8 9 9
19 1 2 3 4 4 4 5 6 6 9 9
20 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 7 7 8
21 0 2 5 9 9
22 1 5 6
23 1 3 4 7
24 2 4 8

Find the mode, median, and mean of the distribution of the motorists’ monthly petrol bills. [4]

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40. The heights and masses of 20 Secondary 2 students are given in the graph.

180

170
Height (cm)

160

150

140

40 50 60 70 80
Mass (kg)

(a) List the 20 masses in ascending order. Using your list, find the
(i) median,
(ii) mode,
(iii) mean. [4]

(b) List the 20 heights in ascending order. Using your list, find the
(i) median,
(ii) mode,
(iii) mean. [4]

41. The table below lists the estimated hourly cost for manufacturing workers, in some countries, in 1999.

Country China Korea Mexico Singapore Malaysia Indonesia

Hourly cost US$ 2.11 4.89 1.52 7.32 2.59 0.09

(a) How many times more expensive is a Singaporean worker’s cost per hour, as compared to his Indonesian
counterpart? [3]
(b) Express the percentage difference of the hourly cost of a Singaporean worker, compared to his Malaysian
counterpart, taking the hourly cost of a Malaysian worker as the base. [3]
(c) A multinational company employs 32 workers in China, 45 workers in Korea, 65 workers in Singapore, 67
workers in Mexico, 87 workers in Malaysia, and 43 workers in Indonesia. Calculate the mean and median
hourly cost for the workers employed by the company, assuming that the workers in each country earn the
same average hourly pay. [4]

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42. The weights of 50 boys, in kg, were recorded as shown in the table below:

Weight (kg) 40 < x ≤ 45 45 < x ≤ 50 50 < x ≤ 55 55 < x ≤ 60 60 < x ≤ 65 65 < x ≤ 70 70 < x ≤ 75

Number of boys 4 5 10 14 8 6 3

Copy and complete the table below, and then find the mean weight of the 50 boys. [5]

Weight (kg) Mid-value (x) Frequency (f) fx

40 < x ≤ 45

45 < x ≤ 50

50 < x ≤ 55

55 < x ≤ 60

60 < x ≤ 65

65 < x ≤ 70

70 < x ≤ 75

∑f = ∑fx =

43. The table below shows the distribution of ages for the members of a club.

Age (years) 20–30 30–40 40–50 50–60 60–70 70–80

Frequency 1 2 16 18 9 4

(a) Construct a histogram to represent the distribution. [3]

(b) Calculate the mean age of the members of the club. [2]
(c) State the modal class. [2]

Answers

1. (a) 2.5 (b) 2 (c) 2

2. (a) 28.8 (b) 29 (c) 31

3. (a) 1.23 (b) 1 (c) 0

4. (a) 8, 4, 5, 2 (b) (i) 2 (ii) 2 (iii) 1

5. (a) 15, 12, 5, 3 (b) (i) 2.06 (ii) 2 (iii) 1

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6. (a) 61 cm (b) 58 cm (c) 35%

7. (a) Stem and leaf diagram (b) 30 mins (c) 30%

8. (a) 14 (b) 14.2 (c) 14

9. (a) 1.66 (b) 2 (c) 2

10. (a) 2 (b) 11 (c) 11

11. (a) (i) 0.51 (ii) 0 (b) 0.83

12. 17

13. (a) 5.05 (b) 5 (c) 5

14. (b) 16, 10–12

15. 35

16. 13

17. 8 years

18. (a) 15.5 (b) 15 (c) 15

19. (b) 2.47

20. x = 40 median = 39.75

21. (b) (i) 8 (ii) 7

22. (a) 4 (b) 14 (c) 33

23. (a) 300 (b) 7, 6, 6.02

24. (a) 31
(b) (i) 34 (ii) 33
(c) 48

25. 19, 17

26. 2.5

27. (b) 158.9

28. (a) 55.3 (b) 50

29. (a) 0.59 (b) 0 (c) 0

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30. (a) 11 (b) 10 (c) 9

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31. (a) a + 2 (b) a + 2 3 , 4

32. (a) 3 (b) 3

33. 57

3
34. (a) 1 (b) 2.5 (c) 2 4

35. (a) (i) 10 (ii) 410 (b) 5

36. (a) 30 (b) 7 (c) 30%

37. (b) 0, 2 , 2.2

38. (a) 20, 20 (b) 4, 2 (c) 2 (e) Class A

39. (a) $207 , $194.50 , $197.18

40. (a) 44, 48, 50, 54, 54, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 67, 67, 67, 69, 71, 72, 75, 78
(i) 62 kg (ii) 67 kg (iii) 61.9 kg

(b) 146, 148, 150, 154, 157, 157, 160, 161, 162, 164, 165, 167, 168, 169, 171, 171, 171, 171, 175, 175
(i) 164.5 cm (ii) 171 cm (iii) 163.1 cm

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41. (a) 81 3 (b) 183% (c) mean = US$3.23 median = US$2.59

42. 57.2 kg

43. (b) 53.8 (c) 50–6

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