Assignment | Statistics
1 (a) 20 students each record the mass, p grams, of their pencil case.
The table below shows the results.
Mass
0 1 p G 50 50 1 p G 100 100 1 p G 125 125 1 p G 150 150 1 p G 200
( p grams)
Frequency 2 5 4 6 3
(i) Calculate an estimate of the mean mass.
................................................ g [4]
(ii) Use the frequency table above to complete the cumulative frequency table.
Mass
p G 50 p G 100 p G 125 p G 150 p G 200
( p grams)
Cumulative
20
frequency
[2]
(iii) A student is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this student has a pencil case with a mass greater than 150 g.
................................................... [1]
(b) The frequency table below shows information about the number of books read by some students in a
reading marathon.
Number of
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
books read
Frequency 2 2 16 10 9 4 x 2
(i) The mean number of books read is 4.28 .
Find the value of x.
x = .................................................. [3]
(ii) Write down the mode.
................................................... [1]
(iii) Write down the median.
................................................... [1]
2 The test scores of 14 students are shown below.
21 21 23 26 25 21 22 20 21 23 23 27 24 21
(i) Find the range, mode, median and mean of the test scores.
Range = ....................................................
Mode = ....................................................
Median = ....................................................
Mean = .................................................... [6]
(ii) A student is chosen at random.
Find the probability that this student has a test score of more than 24.
.................................................... [1]
3 The heights, h metres, of the 120 boys in an athletics club are recorded.
The table shows information about the heights of the boys.
Height
(h metres) 1.3 1 h G 1.4 1.4 1 h G 1.5 1.5 1 h G 1.6 1.6 1 h G 1.7 1.7 1 h G 1.8 1.8 1 h G 1.9
Frequency 7 18 30 24 27 14
(a) (i) Write down the modal class.
.................. 1 h G .................. [1]
(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean height.
............................................. m [4]
(b) (i) One boy is chosen at random from the club.
Find the probability that this boy has a height greater than 1.8 m.
................................................. [1]
(ii) Three boys are chosen at random from the club.
Calculate the probability that one of the boys has a height greater than 1.8 m and the other
two boys each have a height of 1.4 m or less.
................................................. [4]
4 A group of 160 adults each completed the same task.
The table shows the number of errors made by each of these adults.
Number of errors 0 1 2 3 4 5
Frequency 24 30 50 32 16 8
(i) Calculate the mean.
................................................. [2]
(ii) One of the adults is selected at random.
Find the probability that this adult made more than 3 errors.
................................................. [1]
(iii) Two of the adults are selected at random.
Find the probability that they each made exactly one error.
................................................. [2]
5 A survey recorded the number of people living in each of 50 houses.
The bar chart shows the results.
14
12
10
8
Frequency
6
4
2
0
1 2 3 4 5 6
Number of people
(a) Find the mode.
................................................. [1]
(b) Find the median.
................................................. [1]
(c) Calculate the mean.
................................................. [3]
(d) One of these houses is chosen at random.
Find the probability that exactly 3 people live there.
................................................. [1]
(e) Two houses are chosen at random from these 50 houses.
Find the probability that only one of the two houses has exactly 5 people living there.
................................................. [3]
6 100 adults in a town were surveyed about the number of emails they each received one day.
The table shows the results.
Number of emails 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Number of adults 8 10 22 28 15 9 5 3
(a) Find the mode.
................................................. [1]
(b) Calculate the mean.
................................................. [2]
(c) One of these adults is chosen at random.
Find the probability that they received fewer than 4 emails that day.
Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.
................................................. [2]
(d) The town has 18 000 adults.
Use the survey results to estimate the number of adults in the town who received exactly 5 emails
that day.
................................................. [2]
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