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Y12 Stats Exam Qs

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Y12 Stats Exam Qs

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Year 12 Statistics Exam Questions

Question 1

A sixth form college has 84 students in Year 12 and 56 students in Year 13


The head teacher selects a stratified sample of 40 students, stratified by year group.
Describe how this sample could be taken. (3)
(Total for question = 3 marks)

Question 2

The histogram in Figure 1 shows the times taken to complete a crossword by a random sample of
students.
The number of students who completed the crossword in more than 15 minutes is 78.
Estimate the percentage of students who took less than 11 minutes to complete the crossword.

(Total for question = 4 marks)

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Question 3

Jerry is studying visibility for Camborne using the large data set June 1987.
The table below contains two extracts from the large data set.
It shows the daily maximum relative humidity and the daily mean visibility.

Given that daily mean visibility is given to the nearest 100,


write down the range of distances in metres that corresponds to the recorded value 0 for the daily mean
visibility. (1)

Question 4

Joshua is investigating the daily total rainfall in Hurn for May to October 2015
Using the information from the large data set, Joshua wishes to calculate the mean of the
daily total rainfall in Hurn for May to October 2015
(a) Using your knowledge of the large data set, explain why Joshua needs to clean the data before
calculating the mean. (1)
Using the information from the large data set, he produces the grouped frequency table below.

(b) Use linear interpolation to calculate an estimate for the upper quartile of the daily total rainfall. (2)
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(c) Calculate an estimate for the standard deviation of the daily total rainfall in Hurn for May to October
2015 (2)

(d) (i) State the assumption involved with using class midpoints to calculate an estimate of a mean
from a grouped frequency table.

(ii) Using your knowledge of the large data set, explain why this assumption does not hold in this
case.
(iii) State, giving a reason, whether you would expect the actual mean daily total
rainfall in Hurn for May to October 2015 to be larger than, smaller than or the
same as an estimate based on the grouped frequency table. (3)

(Total for question = 8 marks)

Question 5
Sara is investigating the variation in daily maximum gust, t kn, for Camborne in June and July 1987.

She used the large data set to select a sample of size 20 from the June and July data for 1987. Sara
selected the first value using a random number from 1 to 4 and then selected every third value after that.
(a) State the sampling technique Sara used. (1)

(b) From your knowledge of the large data set, explain why this process may not generate a sample of
size 20. (1)
The data Sara collected are summarised as follows

(c) Calculate the standard deviation. (2)

(Total for question = 4 marks)

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Question 6
Helen is studying the daily mean wind speed for Camborne using the large data set from 1987.
The data for one month are summarised in Table 1 below.

Table 1
(a) Calculate the mean for these data. (1)
(b) Calculate the standard deviation for these data and state the units. (2)
The means and standard deviations of the daily mean wind speed for the other months from the large
data set for Camborne in 1987 are given in Table 2 below. The data are not in month order.

Table 2
(c) Using your knowledge of the large data set, suggest, giving a reason, which month had a mean of
11.57 (2)
The data for these months are summarised in the box plots on the opposite page.
They are not in month order or the same order as in Table 2.
(d) (i) State the meaning of the * symbol on some of the box plots.
(ii) Suggest, giving your reasons, which of the months in Table 2 is most likely to be summarised in
the box plot marked Y. (3)

(Total for question = 8 marks)

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Question 7

The partially completed histogram and the partially completed table show the time, to the nearest minute,
that a random sample of motorists were delayed by roadworks on a stretch of motorway.

Estimate the percentage of these motorists who were delayed by the roadworks for between 8.5 and 13.5
minutes. (5)
(Total for question = 5 marks)

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Question 8

A lake contains three different types of carp.


There are an estimated 450 mirror carp, 300 leather carp and 850 common carp.
Tim wishes to investigate the health of the fish in the lake.
He decides to take a sample of 160 fish.
(a) Give a reason why stratified random sampling cannot be used. (1)
(b) Explain how a sample of size 160 could be taken to ensure that the estimated populations of each
type of carp are fairly represented.
You should state the name of the sampling method used. (2)

As part of the health check, Tim weighed the fish.


His results are given in the table below.

(c) Calculate an estimate for the standard deviation of the weight of the carp. (2)

Tim realised that he had transposed the figures for 2 of the weights of the fish.
He had recorded in the table 2.3 instead of 3.2 and 4.6 instead of 6.4.
(d) Without calculating a new estimate for the standard deviation, state what effect

(i) using the correct figure of 3.2 instead of 2.3


(ii) using the correct figure of 6.4 instead of 4.6
would have on your estimated standard deviation.
Give a reason for each of your answers. (2)

(Total for question = 7 marks)

Question 9
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A factory buys 10% of its components from supplier A, 30% from supplier B and the rest from supplier C.
It is known that 6% of the components it buys are faulty.
Of the components bought from supplier A, 9% are faulty and of the components bought from supplier B,
3% are faulty.
(a) Find the percentage of components bought from supplier C that are faulty. (3)

A component is selected at random.


(b) Explain why the event "the component was bought from supplier B " is not statistically independent
from the event "the component is faulty". (1)
(Total for question = 4 marks)

Question 10

The Venn diagram shows the probabilities for students at a college taking part in various sports.
A represents the event that a student takes part in Athletics.
T represents the event that a student takes part in Tennis.
C represents the event that a student takes part in Cricket.
p and q are probabilities.

The probability that a student selected at random takes part in Athletics or Tennis is 0.75
(a) Find the value of p. (1)

(b) State, giving a reason, whether or not the events A and T are statistically independent. Show your
working clearly. (3)

(c) Find the probability that a student selected at random does not take part in Athletics or Cricket. (1)
(Total for question = 5 marks)

Question 11

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The Venn diagram shows three events, A, B and C, and their associated probabilities.

Events B and C are mutually exclusive.


Events A and C are independent.
Showing your working, find the value of x, the value of y and the value of z.

(Total for question = 5 marks)

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