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1 Some children were asked how many television programmes they had watched on the previous
day. The table shows the results.

Number of programmes watched 0 1 2 3

Number of children 7 3 1 y

(a) If the median is 2, find the value of y.

(b) If the median is 1, find the greatest possible value of y.

Answer (a) ................................................. [1]

(b) ................................................. [1]

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2 The lengths of 40 nails were measured.

Their lengths, in centimetres, are summarised in the table below.

Length (l cm) Frequency

0
l4 14
4
l8 18
8
l  16 8

(a) On the axes in the answer space, draw the histogram which represents this
information.

Answer (a)

Frequency
density

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Length (l cm) [2]

(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean length of the nails.

Answer (b) ......................................cm [2]

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3 One hundred children were asked how far they could swim.

The results are summarised in the table.

Distance (d metres) 0 < d
100 100 < d
200 200 < d
400
Number of children 30 50 20

(a) The histogram in the answer space represents part of this information.
Complete the histogram.

Answer (a)

0.6

0.5

0.4
Frequency
density 0.3

0.2

0.1

0 100 200 300 400

Distance (d metres) [1]

(b) A pie chart is drawn to represent the three groups of children.

Calculate the angle of the sector that represents the group of 20 children.

Answer (b) ................................................... [1]

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4 The cumulative frequency curve shows the distribution of the masses of 100 people.

100

80

60
Cumulative
frequency

40

20

0
50 60 70 80 90 100
Mass (m kg)

Find

(a) the median,

(b) the upper quartile,

(c) the number of people with masses in the range 65 < m
72.

Answer (a) ...............................................kg [1]

(b) ...............................................kg [1]

(c) ................................................... [1]

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5
400

300

Cumulative
200
frequency Field A

100

0 10 20 30 40 50
Height (cm)
The diagram above is the cumulative frequency curve for the heights of 400 plants which
were grown in Field A.

Use the graph to find

(a) the number of plants that grew to a height of more than 30 cm,

(b) the interquartile range.

Answer (a) ........................................... [1]

(b) ........................................... [1]

(c) Another 400 plants were grown in Field B.

The cumulative frequency distribution of the heights of these plants is shown in the
table.

Height (h cm) h  10 h  15 h  20 h  25 h  30 h  35 h  40 h  50
Cumulative
frequency 35 75 130 200 280 330 370 400

On the same axes as for Field A, draw the cumulative frequency curve for the plants
grown in Field B. [2]

(d) By comparing the two curves, state, with a reason, which Field produced the taller
plants.

Answer (d) Field .......... produced the taller plants because ...................................................
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metres
6 The diagram shows a gauge for measuring the water level 3
in a reservoir.
Readings, in metres, taken over a certain period were as follows: 2
1
– 2.3, –1.6, – 0.4, 0.1, – 0.5, 0.3, – 1.2 .
0
For these readings
–1
(a) find the difference, in metres, between the highest and –2
lowest levels,
–3
(b) find the median,

(c) calculate the mean.

Answer (a) ............................................... m [1]

(b) ............................................... m [1]

(c) ............................................... m [2]

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7 The temperature at the bottom of a mountain was 8°C.

The temperature at the top was –26°C.
Find

(a) the difference between the two temperatures,

(b) the mean of the two temperatures.

Answer (a) .........................................°C [1]

(b) .........................................°C [1]

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8 The heights of 40 children were measured.

The results are summarised in the table below.

Height (h cm) 105 < h ⭐ 115 115 < h ⭐ 125 125 < h ⭐ 135 135 < h ⭐ 145
Frequency 5 10 20 5

(a) (i) Identify the modal class.

(ii) Calculate an estimate of the mean height.

Answer (a)(i) ................................................[1]

(ii) .........................................cm [3]

(b) The cumulative frequency curve representing this information is shown below.

40

30
Cumulative
frequency

20

10

0
105 115 125 135 145
Height (h cm)

Use the curve to find

(i) the interquartile range,

(ii) the number of children whose heights are in the range 120 cm to 130 cm.

Answer (b)(i) ......................................... cm [2]

(ii) ................................................[1]
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9 In an experiment, the heights of some plants were measured.

The table below summarises the results.

Height (h cm) 2<h⭐3 3<h⭐4 4<h⭐5 5<h⭐8

Frequency 15 25 20 15

Complete the histogram which represents this information.

Answer

25

20
Frequency
density 15

10

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Height (h cm)
[2]

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10 (a) Fifty students were asked how many books they each took to school on Monday.
The results are summarised in the table below.

Number of books 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Frequency 10 11 8 3 6 7 4 1

(i) Write down the median.

(ii) Calculate the mean number of books.
(iii) What is the probability that two students, chosen at random, both took 5 books to
school?
Give your answer as a fraction in its simplest form.

Answer (a)(i) ........................................[1]

(ii) .........................................[3]

(iii) ........................................[2]

(b) The fifty students were also asked how long they each took to travel to school.
The results are summarised in the table below.

Time of travel (t minutes) 4⭐t<6 6⭐t<8 8 ⭐ t < 10 10 ⭐ t < 12

Frequency 21 11 13 5

Draw a frequency polygon on the grid below to illustrate this data.

Answer (b)

25

20

15
Frequency
10

0
Time (t minutes)
[2]
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11 The number of items bought by 10 customers at a local store is shown below.

6 7 5 9 10 7 18 10 7 9

(a) State the mode of this distribution.

(b) Find the median number of items bought.

Answer (a) ............................................[1]

(b) ............................................[1]
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12 (a) The graph shows the cumulative frequency curve for the playing times of the individual
tracks on Andrew’s MP3 player.

Use the graph to find

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(i) the median,
(ii) the interquartile range.

60

Cumulative
frequency 40

20

0
3 4 5 6
Playing time (minutes)

Answer (a)(i) ....................... minutes [1]

(ii) ........................ minutes [2]

(b) The table summarises the playing times of each of the 100 tracks on Tom’s MP3 player.

Playing time (t minutes) Frequency

2.5 < t  3.5 5
3.5 < t  4.5 30
4.5 < t  5.5 50
5.5 < t  6.5 15

Calculate an estimate of the mean playing time of the individual tracks.

Answer (b) ........................... minutes [3]

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14 The colours of the cars which passed a house were noted.

The results are shown in the pie chart below.

Red

Silver
120° 72°
Blue

Other

There were 12 blue cars.

How many cars

(a) passed the house,

Answer (a) .......................................[1]

(b) were red?

Answer (b) .......................................[2]

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15 The table below shows the number of pets owned by 20 families.

Number of pets 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Number of families 2 5 3 2 4 1 1 2

Find

(a) the modal number of pets,

Answer (a) .......................................[1]

(b) the mean number of pets.

Answer (b) .......................................[2]

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17 Sara carries out a survey of the colours of cars in a car park.

She draws a pie chart to represent her results.

(a) There are 7 red cars.

The angle representing the red cars is 40º.

Calculate the total number of cars in the car park.

Answer (a) ...................................... [1]

(b) Sara’s pie chart is a circle with circumference 28 cm.

Find, in terms of π, the diameter of the circle.

Answer (b) ................................ cm [1]

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20 The graph shows the cumulative frequency curve for the ages of 60 employees.

60

50

40
Cumulative
frequency 30

20

10

0
15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65
Age (years)

Use the graph to estimate

(a) the median,

Answer (a) ..................................... [1]

(b) the interquartile range,

Answer (b) ..................................... [2]

(c) the number of employees aged over 50.

Answer (c) ..................................... [1]

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23 The times taken for 200 children to run 100 m were recorded.
The cumulative frequency curve summarises the results.

200

150

Cumulative
frequency 100

50

0
14 15 16
Time (seconds)

Use the curve to find

(a) the lower quartile,

Answer (a) ........................ seconds [1]

(b) the number of children who took at least 15.5 seconds.

Answer (b) ...................................... [2]

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24 Jamil recorded the number of text messages sent by the students in his class on one day.
The results are shown in the bar chart.

Frequency 4

0
3 4 5 6 7 8
Number of text messages

Use the bar chart to find

(a) the number of students in Jamil’s class,

Answer ........................................ [1]

(b) the median number of text messages sent,

Answer ........................................ [1]

(c) the modal number of text messages sent.

Answer ........................................ [1]

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25 The table shows the distribution of the number of complete lengths swum by a group of swimmers.

Number of complete lengths (n) 0 ⬍ n ⭐ 20 20 ⬍ n ⭐ 40 40 ⬍ n ⭐ 60 60 ⬍ n ⭐ 80

Frequency 5 20 10 5

(a) Find the modal class.

Answer ........................................ [1]

(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean.

Answer ........................................ [3]

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26 The table shows the results when a 6-sided die was thrown 50 times.

Score 1 2 3 4 5 6
Frequency 7 7 6 9 11 10

(a) Write down the modal score.

Answer ....................................... [1]

(b) Calculate the mean score.

Answer ....................................... [2]

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28 The distribution of the lengths of time taken by an engineer to repair some washing machines is given
in the table.

Time (t hours) 1<t3 3<t4 4<t5 5<t8

Frequency k 5 4 3

The histogram represents some of this information.

Frequency 3
density
2

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Time (hours)

(a) Find k.

Answer k = ................................. [1]

(b) Complete the histogram. [2]

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31 The table summarises the times, in minutes, taken by a group of people to complete a puzzle.

Time (t minutes) 0<t4 4<t8 8 < t  12 12 < t  16 16 < t  20

Frequency 4 8 7 4 2

(a) On the grid draw a frequency polygon to represent this information.

Frequency

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Time (t minutes)
[2]

(b) Write down the modal class.

Answer ..................................... [1]

(c) How many people took more than 8 minutes to complete the puzzle?

Answer ..................................... [1]

(d) Imran says:

‘The longest time to complete the puzzle was 20 minutes.’

Explain why he may not be correct.

...................................................................................................................................................

.............................................................................................................................................. [1]
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32 The mean mass of Ali, Ben and Carl is 40 kg.

The mass of Dan is 48 kg.

Find the mean mass of the four boys.

Answer ............................... kg [2]

33 In an experiment, 4 dice are thrown and the number of Fives is recorded.

The experiment is repeated 12 times.
The table shows the results.

Number of Fives 0 1 2 3 4
Frequency 1 2 3 5 1

For this distribution of Fives,

(a) write down the mode,

Answer ..................................... [1]

(b) find the median.

Answer ..................................... [1]

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35 Eighty cyclists were each asked the distance (in kilometres) they cycled last week.

80

70

60

50
Cumulative
frequency 40

30

20

10

0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Distance (kilometres)

The cumulative frequency diagram represents the results.

Use the graph to estimate

(a) the number of cyclists who cycled between 60 and 80 kilometres,

Answer ............................................ [1]

(b) the median distance cycled,

Answer ...................................... km [1]

(c) the interquartile range for the distance cycled.

Answer ...................................... km [2]

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39 (a) An ordinary die is thrown 15 times.

These are the numbers thrown.

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

(i) Find the mode.

Answer ................................................ [1]

(ii) Find the median.

Answer ................................................ [1]

(b) –20 –8 x

The mean of these three numbers is –5.

Find x.

Answer x = .......................................... [1]

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40 The times taken by each of 120 runners to react to the starting gun were recorded.
The cumulative frequency curve summarises the results.

120

100

80

Cumulative
frequency
60

40

20

0
0 1 2
Time (seconds)

(a) Find the upper quartile.

Answer ............................................ s [1]

(b) Find the 40th percentile.

Answer ............................................ s [1]

(c) Find the number of students who took less than 1.5 seconds.

Answer ............................................... [1]

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41 In an experiment with a group of snails, the distance moved in one minute by each snail was
recorded.
Some of the results are shown in the table and illustrated in the histogram.

Distance
2<x3 3<x4 4<x5 5<x7 7<x9
(x centimetres)

Frequency 6 9 12 p 4

12

10

8
Frequency
density 6

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 x
Distance (cm)

(a) Use the histogram to find the value of p.

Answer p = ......................................... [1]

(b) Complete the histogram. [2]

(c) One snail is chosen at random.

Find the probability that this snail did not move more than 4 cm.

Answer ............................................... [1]

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45 Each member of a group of 100 people was asked how long they spent at a gym one afternoon.
The results are summarised in the cumulative frequency table below.

Time
t G 20 t G 40 t G 60 t G 90 t G 120
(t mins)
Cumulative
6 20 46 88 100
frequency

(a) How many people spent between 60 and 90 minutes at the gym?

Answer ......................................... [1]

(b) On the grid below, draw the cumulative frequency curve to represent the information in the table.

100

80

60
Cumulative
frequency

40

20

0
0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Time (t minutes)
[2]

(c) Use your cumulative frequency curve to estimate

(i) the median time spent at the gym,

Answer ........................... minutes [1]

(ii) the number of people who spent between 50 and 80 minutes at the gym.

Answer ......................................... [2]

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52 The table shows the masses of different fruits sold at a market stall on one day.

Fruit Apples Pears Oranges Bananas Total

Mass (kg) 30 10 18 32 90

(a) Complete the pie chart to illustrate the data.

Apples

Pears

[2]

(b) The stallholder buys apples for 60 cents per kilogram.

She sells them all for 72 cents per kilogram.

Calculate her percentage profit.

Answer .................................... % [2]

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53 The masses of 400 goats were measured.

The results are shown in the cumulative frequency graph.

400

300
Cumulative frequency

200

100

0
58 60 62 64 66 68 70 72
Mass (kilograms)

(a) Use the graph to find

(i) the median,

Answer ........................................... kg [1]

(ii) the 30th percentile,

Answer ........................................... kg [1]

(iii) the number of goats whose mass is more than 66 kg.

Answer ................................................. [1]

(b) It was noticed later that the scales used were faulty and that the true readings should all
be 2 kg more.

On the grid above, draw the true cumulative frequency graph. [1]
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54 Henri did a survey of the lengths of the leaves on a plant.

The results are summarised in the table.

Length (x cm) 11xG3 31xG4 41xG5 51xG8

Frequency 6 8 10 6

(a) When asked to draw a histogram to illustrate the results, Henri drew the following diagram.

10

6
Frequency
4

0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Length (x cm)

Explain why this diagram is incorrect.

...................................................................................................................................................................

.............................................................................................................................................................. [1]

(b) On the grid below, draw a correct histogram for Henri’s results.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Length (x cm)

[3]
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57 The cumulative frequency graph shows information about the reaction times of 60 people.

60

50

40
Cumulative
frequency 30

20

10

0
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3
Time (seconds)

Use the graph to estimate

(a) the lower quartile,

Answer .......................................... [1]

(b) the number of people who have a reaction time of more than 0.2 seconds.

Answer ........................................... [1]

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58 During one day, the temperature, in °C, was recorded every 2 hours.
The twelve results are given below.

-3 -2 –1 1 2 4 5 4 2 0 -2 –2

For these results, find

(a) the median,

Answer ..................................... °C [1]

(b) the mean,

Answer ..................................... °C [1]

(c) the difference between the highest and the lowest of these temperatures.

Answer ..................................... °C [1]

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60 A school recorded the number of absent students over a 50-day period.

The results are given in the table.

Number of absent students 0 1 2 3 4 5 or more

Number of days 25 15 6 3 1 0

(a) Write down the mode.

Answer .......................................... [1]

(b) Calculate the mean.

Answer .......................................... [2]