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1. You must write down all stages in your working. [3 marks]

1 The table shows information about the mark scored on an examination question by each
of 40 students.

Number of
Mark
students
0 13
1 2
2 3
3 8
4 14

Work out the mean mark.

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(Total for Question 1 is 3 marks)

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2. You must write down all the stages in your working. [3 marks]

1 Becky counted the number of matches in each of 50 boxes.

The table shows information about her results.

Number of matches Frequency

45 3
46 7
47 12
48 23
49 4
50 1

Work out the mean number of matches.

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3. (Total for Question 1 is 3 marks) [2 marks]

3 The table shows information about the numbers of goals scored by some football teams
last week.

Number of goals Number of teams

0 Do NOT write
5 in this space.
1 8
2 2
3 3
4 2

Work out the total number of goals scored by these football teams last week.
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(Total for Question 3 is 2 marks)

4. [5 marks]

4 Becky has a biased 6-sided spinner.

She spins the spinner 25 times.
She records the score for each spin. 1
The table shows information about her scores. 2
6
Score Frequency
3
1 9 5
2 6 4
3 3
4 2
5 1
6 4

(a) Find her median score.

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(2)
(b) Work out her mean score.

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(3)

(Total for Question 4 is 5 marks)

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6 A school has 60 teachers.

The table shows information about the distances, in km, the teachers travel to school
each day.

Distance (d km) Frequency

0<d!5 12

5 < d ! 10 6

10 < d ! 15 4

15 < d ! 20 6

20 < d ! 25 14

25 < d ! 30 18

(a) Write down the modal class.

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(1)
(b) Work out an estimate for the total distance travelled to school by the 60 teachers
each day.

.............................................................. km
(3)

(Total for Question 6 is 4 marks)

7 (i) Solve the inequalities –2 < x + 2 ! 5

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(ii) On the number line, represent the solution to part (i).

–5 –4 –3 –2 –1 0 1 2 3 4 5

(Total for Question 7 is 4 marks)

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7 Mr Rowland has a class of 30 students.

He gave them 24 words to spell.
The table shows information about the number of correct spellings for each student.

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Number of correct spellings Frequency
0–4 1
5–9 5
10 – 14 6
15 – 19 10
20 – 24 8

(a) Write down the modal class.

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(1)
(b) Work out an estimate for the mean number of correct spellings.
Give your answer to 1 decimal place.

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(4)

(Total for Question 7 is 5 marks)

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5 Kim asked 40 people how many text messages they each sent on Monday.
The table shows her results.

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Number of text messages sent Frequency
0 to 4 6
5 to 9 3
10 to 14 5
15 to 19 12
20 to 24 14

(a) Write down the modal class.

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(1)
(b) Calculate an estimate for the mean number of text messages sent.

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(4)
(c) What percentage of these 40 people sent 20 or more text messages?
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(2)

(Total for Question 5 is 7 marks)

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7 The table shows information about the numbers of text messages sent by 40 teenagers
in one day.

Number of text
Number of teenagers Mid-interval value
messages
0 to 2 3 1

3 to 5 6 4

6 to 8 10

9 to 11 15

12 to 14 5

15 to 17 1

(a) Write down the modal class.

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(1)
(b) (i) Work out an estimate for the mean number of texts sent by the 40 teenagers
in one day.

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(ii) Explain why your answer to part (b)(i) is an estimate.

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(Total for Question 7 is 6 marks)

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3 The table shows information about the time, in minutes, spent on homework by each of
32 pupils in one night.

Time (t minutes) Number of pupils

0 < t ! 20 7
20 < t ! 40 16
40 < t ! 60 3
60 < t ! 80 6

(a) Calculate the percentage of the 32 pupils who spent more than 60 minutes on their
homework.

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(2)
(b) Calculate an estimate for the total time spent on homework by the 32 pupils.

...................................................... minutes
(3)

(Total for Question 3 is 5 marks)

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4. The table shows information about the number of bananas the students in class 1B ate in
one week.

Number of
bananas Frequency
0 1
1 6
2 5
3 2
4 7
5 4

(a) Find the mean number of bananas.

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(3)

There are 575 students in the school.

The numbers of bananas eaten by students in class 1B are typical of the numbers eaten by
students in the whole school.

(b) Work out an estimate for the number of students in the whole school who will eat
exactly one banana next week.

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8. The table shows information about the ages of 24 students.

Age (years) Number of students

16 9
17 3
18 8
19 4

(a) (i) Write down the mode of these ages.

..................... years

(ii) Find the median of these ages.

..................... years
(iii) Calculate the mean of these ages.

..................... years
(6)

Another student, aged 18, joins the group.

(b) (i) Without calculating the new mean, state whether the mean will increase or
decrease or stay the same.

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(ii) Give a reason for your answer to (i).

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