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The document contains a series of mathematical problems related to cumulative frequency diagrams, covering various scenarios such as children's heights, metal recycling, homework completion times, cooking challenge times, test completion times, distances traveled, and reaction times. Each section includes tasks such as completing cumulative frequency tables, drawing diagrams, and estimating medians, quartiles, and other statistical measures. The total number of questions is 7, with a cumulative total of 42 marks available.

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The document contains a series of mathematical problems related to cumulative frequency diagrams, covering various scenarios such as children's heights, metal recycling, homework completion times, cooking challenge times, test completion times, distances traveled, and reaction times. Each section includes tasks such as completing cumulative frequency tables, drawing diagrams, and estimating medians, quartiles, and other statistical measures. The total number of questions is 7, with a cumulative total of 42 marks available.

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1 A school nurse records the height, h cm, of each of 180 children.


The table shows the information.

Height
(h cm)
Frequency 8 26 35 67 28 16

(a) Complete the cumulative frequency table below.

Height
(h cm)
Cumulative
180
frequency

[2]
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(b) On the grid, draw a cumulative frequency diagram.

[3]

(c) Use your cumulative frequency diagram to find an estimate of

(i) the interquartile range,

................................................... cm [2]
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(ii) the 70th percentile,

................................................... cm [2]

(iii) the number of children with height greater than 106 cm.

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

[Total: 11]

2 A factory recycles metal.


The mass, x tonnes, of metal is measured each day for a number of days.
The cumulative frequency diagram shows the results.

(a) For how many days was the mass measured?

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

(b) Find an estimate of the median.

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

(c) Find an estimate of the upper quartile.

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


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(d) Find an estimate of the interquartile range.

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

(e) Find an estimate of the number of days when the mass was greater than 20 tonnes.

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

[Total: 6]

3 The cumulative frequency diagram shows information about the time, m minutes, taken by 120 students to
complete some homework.

Use the cumulative frequency diagram to find an estimate of


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(a) the interquartile range,

................................................... min [2]

(b) the number of students who took more than 50 minutes to complete the homework.

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

[Total: 4]

4 The time taken for each of 120 students to complete a cooking challenge is shown in the table.

Time (t minutes)

Frequency 44 32 28 12 4

(a) Complete the cumulative frequency table.

Time (t minutes)

Cumulative
0 44
frequency

[2]
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(b) On the grid, draw a cumulative frequency diagram to show this information.

[3]

(c) Find the median time.

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

(d) Find the interquartile range.

................................................... min [2]


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(e) Find the number of students who took more than 37 minutes to complete the cooking challenge.

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

[Total: 10]

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80

70

60

50
Cumulative
frequency 40

30

20

10

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Time (minutes)

The cumulative frequency diagram shows information about the times, in minutes, taken by 80 students to
complete a short test.

Find

(a) the median,

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

(b) the 30th percentile,

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


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(c) the number of students taking more than 5 minutes.

Answer(c) ................................................... [2]

[Total: 5]

6 The cumulative frequency diagram shows information about the distances travelled, in kilometres, by 60
people.

y
60

50

40

Cumulative
30
frequency

20

10

x
0
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Distance (kilometres)

Find

(a) the 80th percentile,

Answer(a) .........................................km [2]


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(b) the inter-quartile range,

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

(c) the number of people who travelled more than 60 km.

Answer(c) ................................................... [2]

[Total: 6]

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200

150

Cumulative
frequency 100

50

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Time (seconds)

200 students take a reaction time test.


The cumulative frequency diagram shows the results.

Find

(a) the median,

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


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(b) the inter-quartile range,

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

(c) the number of students with a reaction time of more than 4 seconds.

Answer(c) ................................................... [2]

[Total: 5]

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