SL Stat
1a. [3 marks]
Adam is a beekeeper who collected data about monthly honey production in his bee hives. The data for
six of his hives is shown in the following table.
The relationship between the variables is modelled by the regression line with equation .
Write down the value of and of .
1b. [2 marks]
Use this regression line to estimate the monthly honey production from a hive that has 270 bees.
1c. [1 mark]
Adam has 200 hives in total. He collects data on the monthly honey production of all the hives. This
data is shown in the following cumulative frequency graph.
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Adam’s hives are labelled as low, regular or high production, as defined in the following table.
Write down the number of low production hives.
1d. [3 marks]
Adam knows that 128 of his hives have a regular production.
Find the value of ;
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1e. [2 marks]
Find the number of hives that have a high production.
1f. [3 marks]
Adam decides to increase the number of bees in each low production hive. Research suggests that there
is a probability of 0.75 that a low production hive becomes a regular production hive. Calculate the
probability that 30 low production hives become regular production hives.
2a. [1 mark]
Jim heated a liquid until it boiled. He measured the temperature of the liquid as it cooled. The following
table shows its temperature, degrees Celsius, minutes after it boiled.
Write down the independent variable.
2b. [1 mark]
Write down the boiling temperature of the liquid.
2c. [2 marks]
Jim believes that the relationship between and can be modelled by a linear regression equation.
Jim describes the correlation as very strong. Circle the value below which best represents the
correlation coefficient.
2d. [2 marks]
Jim’s model is , for . Use his model to predict the decrease in
temperature for any 2 minute interval.
3a. [2 marks]
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A city hired 160 employees to work at a festival. The following cumulative frequency curve shows the
number of hours employees worked during the festival.
Find the median number of hours worked by the employees.
3b. [1 mark]
Write down the number of employees who worked 50 hours or less.
3c. [1 mark]
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The city paid each of the employees £8 per hour for the first 40 hours worked, and £10 per hour for
each hour they worked after the first 40 hours.
Find the amount of money an employee earned for working 40 hours;
3d. [3 marks]
Find the amount of money an employee earned for working 43 hours.
3e. [3 marks]
Find the number of employees who earned £200 or less.
3f. [4 marks]
Only 10 employees earned more than £ . Find the value of .
4a. [1 mark]
Consider the following frequency table.
Write down the mode.
4b. [2 marks]
Find the value of the range.
4c. [2 marks]
Find the mean.
4d. [2 marks]
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Find the variance.
5a. [3 marks]
The maximum temperature , in degrees Celsius, in a park on six randomly selected days is shown in
the following table. The table also shows the number of visitors, , to the park on each of those six
days.
The relationship between the variables can be modelled by the regression equation .
Find the value of and of .
5b. [1 mark]
Write down the value of .
5c. [3 marks]
Use the regression equation to estimate the number of visitors on a day when the maximum
temperature is 15 °C.
6a. [2 marks]
Ten students were surveyed about the number of hours, , they spent browsing the Internet during
week 1 of the school year. The results of the survey are given below.
Find the mean number of hours spent browsing the Internet.
6b. [2 marks]
During week 2, the students worked on a major project and they each spent an additional five hours
browsing the Internet. For week 2, write down
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(i) the mean;
(ii) the standard deviation.
6c. [6 marks]
During week 3 each student spent 5% less time browsing the Internet than during week 1. For week 3,
find
(i) the median;
(ii) the variance.
6d. [6 marks]
During week 4, the survey was extended to all 200 students in the school. The results are shown in the
cumulative frequency graph:
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(i) Find the number of students who spent between 25 and 30 hours browsing the Internet.
(ii) Given that 10% of the students spent more than k hours browsing the Internet, find the maximum
value of .
7a. [2 marks]
A school collects cans for recycling to raise money. Sam’s class has 20 students.
The number of cans collected by each student in Sam’s class is shown in the following stem and leaf
diagram.
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Find the median number of cans collected.
7b. [3 marks]
The following box-and-whisker plot also displays the number of cans collected by students in Sam’s
class.
(i) Write down the value of .
(ii) The interquartile range is 14. Find the value of .
7c. [3 marks]
Sam’s class collected 745 cans. They want an average of 40 cans per student.
How many more cans need to be collected to achieve this target?
7d. [5 marks]
There are 80 students in the school.
The students raise $0.10 for each recycled can.
(i) Find the largest amount raised by a student in Sam’s class.
(ii) The following cumulative frequency curve shows the amounts in dollars raised by all the students in
the school. Find the percentage of students in the school who raised more money than anyone in Sam’s
class.
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7e. [2 marks]
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The mean number of cans collected is 39.4. The standard deviation is 18.5.
Each student then collects 2 more cans.
(i) Write down the new mean.
(ii) Write down the new standard deviation.
8a. [2 marks]
There are 10 items in a data set. The sum of the items is 60.
Find the mean.
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8b. [3 marks]
The variance of this data set is 3. Each value in the set is multiplied by 4.
(i) Write down the value of the new mean.
(ii) Find the value of the new variance.
9a. [2 marks]
The mass of a decaying substance is measured at one minute intervals. The points are
plotted for , where is in minutes. The line of best fit is drawn. This is shown in the
following diagram.
The correlation coefficient for this linear model is .
State two words that describe the linear correlation between and .
9b. [4 marks]
The equation of the line of best fit is . Given that , find the value of
.
10a. [4 marks]
Let .
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For the graph of f:
(i) write down the -intercept;
(ii) find the -intercept;
(iii) write down the equation of the horizontal asymptote.
10b. [3 marks]
On the following grid, sketch the graph of , for .
11a. [4 marks]
The price of a used car depends partly on the distance it has travelled. The following table shows the
distance and the price for seven cars on 1 January 2010.
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The relationship between and can be modelled by the regression equation .
(i) Find the correlation coefficient.
(ii) Write down the value of and of .
11b. [3 marks]
On 1 January 2010, Lina buys a car which has travelled .
Use the regression equation to estimate the price of Lina’s car, giving your answer to the nearest 100
dollars.
11c. [4 marks]
The price of a car decreases by 5% each year.
Calculate the price of Lina’s car after 6 years.
11d. [4 marks]
Lina will sell her car when its price reaches dollars.
Find the year when Lina sells her car.
12a. [1 mark]
The following box-and-whisker plot represents the examination scores of a group of students.
Write down the median score.
The range of the scores is 47 marks, and the interquartile range is 22 marks.
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12b. [4 marks]
Find the value of
(i) ;
(ii) .
13a. [3 marks]
An environmental group records the numbers of coyotes and foxes in a wildlife reserve after years,
starting on 1 January 1995.
Let be the number of coyotes in the reserve after years. The following table shows the number of
coyotes after years.
The relationship between the variables can be modelled by the regression equation .
Find the value of and of .
13b. [3 marks]
Use the regression equation to estimate the number of coyotes in the reserve when .
13c. [3 marks]
Let be the number of foxes in the reserve after years. The number of foxes can be modelled by the
equation , where is a constant.
Find the number of foxes in the reserve on 1 January 1995.
13d. [4 marks]
During which year were the number of coyotes the same as the number of foxes?
14a. [4 marks]
The following table shows the average number of hours per day spent watching television by seven
mothers and each mother’s youngest child.
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The relationship can be modelled by the regression line with equation .
(i) Find the correlation coefficient.
(ii) Write down the value of and of .
14b. [3 marks]
Elizabeth watches television for an average of hours per day.
Use your regression line to predict the average number of hours of television watched per day by
Elizabeth’s youngest child. Give your answer correct to one decimal place.
15. [4 marks]
The following table shows the sales, millions of dollars, of a company, years after it opened.
The relationship between the variables is modelled by the regression line with equation .
(i) Find the value of and of .
(ii) Write down the value of .
16a. [2 marks]
The following table shows the Diploma score and university entrance mark for seven IB Diploma
students.
Find the correlation coefficient.
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16b. [2 marks]
The relationship can be modelled by the regression line with equation .
Write down the value of and of .
16c. [2 marks]
Rita scored a total of in her IB Diploma.
Use your regression line to estimate Rita’s university entrance mark.
17a. [2 marks]
The following cumulative frequency graph shows the monthly income, dollars, of families.
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Find the median monthly income.
17b. [4 marks]
(i) Write down the number of families who have a monthly income of dollars or less.
(ii) Find the number of families who have a monthly income of more than dollars.
17c. [2 marks]
The families live in two different types of housing. The following table gives information about
the number of families living in each type of housing and their monthly income .
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Find the value of .
17d. [2 marks]
A family is chosen at random.
(i) Find the probability that this family lives in an apartment.
(ii) Find the probability that this family lives in an apartment, given that its monthly income is greater
than dollars.
17e. [2 marks]
Estimate the mean monthly income for families living in a villa.
18a. [2 marks]
The following table shows the average weights ( y kg) for given heights (x cm) in a population of men.
Heights ( 165 170 175 180 185
cm)
Weights ( 67.8 70.0 72.7 75.5 77.2
kg)
The relationship between the variables is modelled by the regression equation .
Write down the value of and of .
18b. [2 marks]
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The relationship between the variables is modelled by the regression equation .
Hence, estimate the weight of a man whose height is 172 cm.
18c. [1 mark]
Write down the correlation coefficient.
18d. [2 marks]
State which two of the following describe the correlation between the variables.
strong zero positive
negative no correlation weak
19a. [1 mark]
The weights in grams of 80 rats are shown in the following cumulative frequency diagram.
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Do NOT write solutions on this page.
Write down the median weight of the rats.
19b. [3 marks]
Find the percentage of rats that weigh 70 grams or less.
19c. [2 marks]
The same data is presented in the following table.
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Weights
grams
Frequency
Write down the value of .
19d. [2 marks]
The same data is presented in the following table.
Weights
grams
Frequency
Find the value of .
19e. [3 marks]
The same data is presented in the following table.
Weights
grams
Frequency
Use the values from the table to estimate the mean and standard deviation of the weights.
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19f. [2 marks]
Assume that the weights of these rats are normally distributed with the mean and standard deviation
estimated in part (c).
Find the percentage of rats that weigh 70 grams or less.
19g. [3 marks]
Assume that the weights of these rats are normally distributed with the mean and standard deviation
estimated in part (c).
A sample of five rats is chosen at random. Find the probability that at most three rats weigh 70 grams
or less.
20a. [2 marks]
The following table shows the amount of fuel ( litres) used by a car to travel certain distances ( km).
Distance 40 75 120 150 195
km)
Amount of 3.6 6.5 9.9 13.1 16.2
fuel
litres)
This data can be modelled by the regression line with equation .
Write down the value of and of .
20b. [1 mark]
Explain what the gradient represents.
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20c. [2 marks]
Use the model to estimate the amount of fuel the car would use if it is driven km.
21a. [2 marks]
The following is a cumulative frequency diagram for the time t, in minutes, taken by 80 students to
complete a task.
Find the number of students who completed the task in less than 45 minutes.
21b. [3 marks]
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Find the number of students who took between 35 and 45 minutes to complete the task.
21c. [2 marks]
Given that 50 students take less than k minutes to complete the task, find the value of .
22a. [4 marks]
A running club organizes a race to select girls to represent the club in a competition.
The times taken by the group of girls to complete the race are shown in the table below.
Find the value of and of .
22b. [3 marks]
A girl is chosen at random.
(i) Find the probability that the time she takes is less than minutes.
(ii) Find the probability that the time she takes is at least minutes.
22c. [4 marks]
A girl is selected for the competition if she takes less than minutes to complete the race.
Given that of the girls are not selected,
(i) find the number of girls who are not selected;
(ii) find .
22d. [4 marks]
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Girls who are not selected, but took less than minutes to complete the race, are allowed another
chance to be selected. The new times taken by these girls are shown in the cumulative frequency
diagram below.
(i) Write down the number of girls who were allowed another chance.
(ii) Find the percentage of the whole group who were selected.
23a. [2 marks]
Consider the following cumulative frequency table.
Find the value of .
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23b. [4 marks]
Find
(i) the mean;
(ii) the variance.
24a. [6 marks]
Let and be functions such that .
(a) The graph of is mapped to the graph of under the following transformations:
vertical stretch by a factor of , followed by a translation .
Write down the value of
(i) ;
(ii) ;
(iii) .
(b) Let . The point A( , ) on the graph of is mapped to the point on the graph of
. Find .
24b. [3 marks]
The graph of is mapped to the graph of under the following transformations:
vertical stretch by a factor of , followed by a translation .
Write down the value of
(i) ;
(ii) ;
(iii) .
24c. [3 marks]
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Let . The point A( , ) on the graph of is mapped to the point on the graph of .
Find .
25. [7 marks]
A random variable is normally distributed with and .
Find the interquartile range of .
26a. [4 marks]
The weekly wages (in dollars) of 80 employees are displayed in the cumulative frequency curve below.
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(i) Write down the median weekly wage.
(ii) Find the interquartile range of the weekly wages.
26b. [3 marks]
The box-and-whisker plot below displays the weekly wages of the employees.
Write down the value of
(i) ;
(ii) ;
(iii) .
26c. [3 marks]
Employees are paid per hour.
Find the median number of hours worked per week.
26d. [5 marks]
Employees are paid per hour.
Find the number of employees who work more than hours per week.
27a. [2 marks]
The ages of people attending a music concert are given in the table below.
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Find p .
27b. [5 marks]
The cumulative frequency diagram is given below.
Use the diagram to estimate
(i) the 80th percentile;
(ii) the interquartile range.
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28a. [2 marks]
The cumulative frequency curve below represents the marks obtained by 100 students.
Find the median mark.
28b. [3 marks]
Find the interquartile range.
29a. [3 marks]
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The histogram below shows the time T seconds taken by 93 children to solve a puzzle.
The following is the frequency distribution for T .
(i) Write down the value of p and of q .
(ii) Write down the median class.
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29b. [2 marks]
A child is selected at random. Find the probability that the child takes less than 95 seconds to solve the
puzzle.
29c. [2 marks]
Consider the class interval .
(i) Write down the interval width.
(ii) Write down the mid-interval value.
29d. [4 marks]
Hence find an estimate for the
(i) mean;
(ii) standard deviation.
29e. [2 marks]
John assumes that T is normally distributed and uses this to estimate the probability that a child takes
less than 95 seconds to solve the puzzle.
Find John’s estimate.
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