Bacchus Marsh Grammar

Statistics Test
2023
Year 7 Mathematics
Name: __________________________________________________

Class: __________________________________________________

Teacher: ________________________________________________

Time Allowed:
Reading time: 5 minutes
Writing time: 50 minutes

Instructions:
• Full and appropriate working out is required for all short answer and extended response
questions. Marks will be awarded for working out as well as for correct answers.
• Only working that shows a logical and constructive method towards a correct solution
will be awarded marks.
• Students may use a calculator.
• Students may have a pen, pencil, eraser, ruler, and protractor.

Marking Scheme:
• Multiple Choice 13 marks
• Short Answer 22 marks
• Extended Answer 9 marks

Total: 44 marks

Optional extension 6 marks

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MULTIPLE CHOICE SECTION
Questions 1 – 3 refer to the following dot plot of Year 7B’s favourite after-school activities.

Question 1
How many students participated in the survey?

A. 20
B. 21
C. 22
D. 23
E. 24

Question 2
How many students chose ‘sport’ as their favourite activity?

A. 6
B. 7
C. 8
D. 9
E. 10

Question 3
Of those listed, what is the least popular after-school activity for this group of students?

A. Video games
B. Sport
C. Television
D. Internet
E. Impossible to tell

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Question 4
Consider the values 3, 32, 15, 7, 33, 47, 22. What is the median?

A. 32
B. 47
C. 3
D. 22
E. 7

Question 5
Which of the following has a mean of 2 and a mode of 3?

A. 1, 1, 2, 2, 3
B. 2, 2, 2, 4, 5
C. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
D. 1, 3, 3, 3, 0
E. 2, 3, 3, -2, 2

Questions 6 and 7 refer to the distribution displayed by the stem-and-leaf plot below.

Key: 3 | 5 means 35

Question 6
The range is

A. 23
B. 35
C. 3
D. 38
E. 5

Question 7
The median is

A. 8
B. 34
C. 35
D. 36
E. 40

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Question 8
The students in a class collected data on the number of minutes per day some kids spend
brushing their teeth. Their data is shown in the dot plot below. Which statement correctly
describes these data?

A. The median is 1.5 and the mean is less than the median.
B. The median is 0.5 and the mean is less than the median.
C. The median is 0.5 and the mean is greater than the median.
D. The median is 1.5 and the mean is greater than the median.
E. The median is 2.5 and the mean is greater than the median.

Question 9
The results of a transport survey are shown below.

If the results above are presented as a pie chart, then the angle occupied by the cycle sector is:

A. 360°
B. 45°
C. 120°
D. 180°
E. 90°

Question 10
The various breeds of dogs are

A. Categorical
B. Continuous numerical
C. Discrete numerical
D. Mean
E. Mode

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Question 11
A survey is conducted of 25 Year 7 students asking how many siblings they have. You can
assume it is a representative sample of the population.

Number of Siblings 0 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency 5 9 6 3 1 1

Of a cohort of 200 year 7 students, how many would you expect to have 3 or more siblings?

A. 5
B. 20
C. 16
D. 40
E. 24

Question 12
If a data set has twelve scores listed in order, the median is

A. the 5th score

B. the 6th score
C. the 7th score
D. the average of the 5th and the 6th score
E. the average of the 6th and the 7th score

Question 13
The data displayed in the frequency table has a mean of 5.5, and the value of x is:

A. 42
B. 6
C. 7
D. 5.5
E. 16

END OF MULTIPLE CHOICE

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SHORT ANSWER SECTION

Question 1 (3 marks)
James and Julie travelled from their house to their grandpa’s house.
The line graph below shows their distance travelled in kilometres against the number of hours
that they spent travelling.

Distance vs. Time

450

400
Distance travelled (km)

350

300

250

200

150

100

50

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Hours Spent travelling

a. How many hours does James and Julie’s whole trip take? 1 mark

b. How far had James and Julie travelled after the first hour? 1 mark

c. What is the total distance of James and Julie’s journey? 1 mark

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Question 2 (7 marks)
Mr. Roy’s class earned the following percentage scores on the last History test:

94 88 85 96 81 74 88 91 101 98 93 82 64 65 77 83.

a. Construct an ordered stem-an-leaf plot to display the data and ensure you include a
key.
3 marks

b. What is the mean, median, mode, and range students scored on their last test?
2 marks

Mode:

Range:

c. A new test score was added from a student who was absent. It is then included in the
stem-and-leaf plot above, the new mean score of the class becomes 84%.
What is the new score?
2 marks

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Question 3 (4 marks)
Google recently completed a survey of the 200 staff at their headquarters in California
to record the age of each of their employees. A histogram showing the breakdown for
staff ages at the headquarters is shown below.

a. How many staff are 40-49 years old? 1 mark

b. What is the modal age group for staff? 1 mark

c. What proportion of staff are aged 50 or older? Express your answer as a simplified
fraction.
2 marks

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Question 4 (6 marks)
The following dot plot represents the number of saves a goalkeeper made in 10 different
games.

a. Which game did the goalkeeper make the most saves? 1 mark

b. What was the lowest number of saves the goalkeeper made in a game? 1 mark

c. Which game did the goalkeeper make the least saves? 1 mark

d. What was the total number of saves made by the goalkeeper across the 10 games? 1 mark

e. What was the average number of saves the goalkeeper made per match across the 10
games?
2 marks

Question 5 (2 marks)

a. Find a set of 5 numbers where the mean and the median = 5 and the mode = 7. 1 mark

b. Find a set of 6 numbers where mode = 2, mean = 7 and median < mean. 1 mark

END OF SHORT ANSWER SECTION

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SECTION 3 - EXTENDED ANSWER SECTION

Question 1 (9 marks)
The colour of the cars in a car park is recorded.

a. On the axes provided, draw a column graph to represent this data. Add an appropriate
title and labels to each axis.
4 marks

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b. For the colour of the cars in a car park, complete the following table.
2 marks

c. Use your protractor to draw an accurate pie chart to represent the information in the
table. Make sure that your pie chart is labelled, and add an appropriate title.
3 marks

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END OF EXTENDED RESPONSE SECTION

END OF TEST

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OPTIONAL EXTENSION SECTION

Question 1 (1 mark)
This table summarises the time Tutty spent training her parrot over five days.
What was the average (mean) time for training the parrot each day?

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Question 2 (1 mark)
Six numbers are listed in ascending order, and some are removed. The mean and the median
are both 6, the mode is 2 and the range is 10. Fill in the missing numbers.

?, ?, 5, ?, ?, ?

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Question 3 (1 mark)
Find a set of three numbers that have a range of 9, a mean of 10, and a median of 11.

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Question 4 (2 mark)
Kat went on holiday and spent her money on accommodation, meals, and shopping.
She spent $1200, and the pie chart below shows how she spent it. How much money did Kat
spend on meals on her holiday?

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Question 5 (1 mark)
Ms Granger measured and recorded the heights of all the students in her class, in centimetres.
She made a dot plot to show the heights of these 32 children.

What fraction of the students' heights are greater than 145 centimetres and less than 150?
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END OF OPTIONAL SECTION

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 BACCHUS MARSH GRAMMAR
Multiple Choice Answer Sheet

YEAR and CLASS:

STUDENT NAME: STUDENT NUMBER

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INSTRUCTIONS: USE PENCIL ONLY 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 E

• Use a PENCIL FOR ALL entries. For each question, shade the 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 F
box which indicates your answer.
• All answers must fill in the box completely. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 G

• Marks will NOT be deducted for incorrect answers. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 J

• NO MARK will be given if more than ONE answer is completed 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 L

for any question.
• If you make a mistake, ERASE the incorrect answer - DO NOT 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 T
cross it out.
• Fill in ONLY the number of boxes on the Question Paper. 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 X

ONE ANSWER PER LINE

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