9 WS-Statistics
9 WS-Statistics
MATHEMATICS-D
Statistics Worksheet
Public transport 49
Walk 87
Cycle 73
Car 16
These results are to be represented on a pie chart. Calculate the size of the angle of the sector representing
2. Richard Divers played Bobby Spinsky in a chess tournament. They played a total of 48 games.
(a) Calculate the size, in degrees, of the angle of the sector representing the number of games won by
Richard Divers.
(b) Draw an accurate pie chart illustrating the information. State clearly the size of the angle of each sector.
3. In the summer term a class of 30 pupils can take part in one of four sports: athletics, cricket, swimming or
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4. A pie chart is to be drawn to show the proportions of the selling price of a book received by the author,
publisher, printer, and bookseller when the book is sold. The printer receives 15% of the selling price of the
book.
(a) Calculate the size, in degrees, of the angle of the sector representing the proportion received by the printer.
The remaining proportions of the selling price are Author 10%, Publisher 20%, Bookseller 55%.
(b) Draw an accurate pie chart illustrating the information. State clearly the size of the angle of each sector.
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5. A family spends £4.80 during one week on vegetables. Use the pie chart,
Fruit
which shows the relative expenditure by the family during the week on fruit, 80° Bread
30°
210° Vegetables
meat, bread and vegetables, to calculate
Meat
(a) how much is spent on bread during the week.
(b) the total expenditure, for the week, on these items. Vegetable
s Pathways
6. The Pie chart, which is not drawn to scale, represents the areas Flowers 50° 25°
in a plot of land used for Vegetables, Flowers, Shrubs, Grass and 75°
Shrub Grass
s
Pathways. The area used for grass is 50m2 . Find, in 𝑚2
9. 720 pupils were asked which of four subjects they preferred. The pie chart illustrates the results.
(b) Given that 204 pupils preferred Mathematics, calculate the Mathematics Science
84°
angle of the sector representing this.
(c) Given that 35% preferred English, find the angle of the sector representing this. History English
10. Some boys were put into five groups, 𝐴, 𝐵, 𝐶, 𝐷 and 𝐸, based on the time they took to run 100 metres.
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The pie chart shows the proportion of boys in each group. Group 𝐴 contains 4 of the boys. Group 𝐵 contains
35% of the boys. Group 𝐶 is represented by a sector with an angle of 42°. Group 𝐷 contains 9 boys.
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(a) Find the fraction of boys in group 𝐶. Give your answer in the lowest terms.
𝑬
(b) Given that the number of boys in group 𝐵 is 21, find the total number 𝑨
𝑫
of boys who ran the 100 metres.
42°
(c) Calculate the number of boys in group 𝐸. 𝑪 𝑩
11. A pie chart is to be drawn for the surface areas, in 1000 km2 , of the five
Great Lakes in North America. Here is an incomplete table for this information. Complete the table.
Lake Area in 1000 km2 (to nearest thousand) Angle at centre of the pie chart
Superior 82
Huron 59
Michigan 58 87°
Erie 36°
Ontario
12. A petrol station sells 4-star, unleaded and diesel fuel. The pie
𝟒 −star
chart represents the amounts of these fuels sold during one week.
108°
The total amount of fuel sold during this week was 24000 litres.
𝑥°
(a) How many litres of 4-star petrol were sold? Diesel Unleaded
13. (a) Three times as many students said Blue as said Green.
Calculate the angle of the sector which represents the number
of students who said Green. Yellow Red
110°
(b) Eight more students said Red than said Yellow.
pie chart. The number of votes Candidate 𝐷 received is 3075 and the
(a) Calculate the total number of votes received by all four candidates.
Candidate 𝐴 won the election. The angle of the sector for Candidate 𝐴
(b) Calculate how many more votes Candidate 𝐴 received than Candidate 𝐵.
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15. 720 pupils were asked which of four subjects they preferred.
(c) Given that 35% preferred English, find the angle of the sector representing this
16. A firm making artificial sand sold its products in four countries:
17. The weights of 𝐴, 𝐵, 𝐶 are in the ratio 2: 3: 4. Calculate the angles representing 𝐴, 𝐵 and 𝐶 on a pie-chart.
18. The cooking times for meals 𝐿, 𝑀 and 𝑁 are in the ratio 3: 7: 𝑥. On a pie-chart, the angle corresponding to
𝐿 is 608. Find 𝑥.
19. The results of an opinion poll of 2000 people are represented on a pie chart. The angle corresponding to
‘don’t know’ is 188. How many people in the sample did not know?
20. The pie chart illustrates the sales of various makes of petrol.
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(b) If ‘Jet’ accounts for 12 2 % of total sales, calculate the angles 𝑥 and 𝑦.
∎ Answers:
[1] 116.8°, [2] (a) 195°, [4] (a) 54°, [5] (a) £3.60, (b) £43.20, [6] (a) 150 m2, (b) 37.5 m2, [7] (a) 150, (b) 45,
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[8] (a) 1125 kg, (b) 146°, [9] (a) 168, (b) 102°, [10] (a) 60, (b) 60, (c) 8, [11] 123°, 88.5°, 24, 17, 25.5°,
[12] (a) 7200 litres, (b) 102°, [13] (a) 40°, (b) 44, [14] (a) 14760, (b) 205, [15] (a) 168 (b) 102 (c) 126
[16] 18°, 54°, 54°, 234°, [17] 80°, 120°, 160°, [18] 𝑥 = 8, [19] 100, [20] (a) 22.5% (b) 𝑥 = 45 , 𝑦 = 114 .
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2. Find the mean, median and mode of the following sets of numbers:
3. The mean mass of five men is 76 kg. The masses of four of the men are 72 kg, 74 kg, 75 kg and 81 kg.
What is the mass of the fifth man?
4. The mean length of 6 rods is 44.2 𝑐𝑚. The mean length of 5 of them is 46 𝑐𝑚. How long is the sixth rod?
5. (a) The mean of 3, 7, 8, 10 and 𝑥 is 6. Find 𝑥, (b) The mean of 3, 3, 7, 8, 10, 𝑥 and 𝑥 is 7. Find 𝑥.
6. The mean height of 12 men is 1.70 𝑚, and the mean height of 8 women is 1.60 𝑚. Find:
(a) the total height of the 12 men, (b) the total height of the 8 women,
(c) the mean height of the 20 men and women.
7. The total mass of 6 rugby players is 540 kg and the mean mass of 14 ballet dancers is 40 kg. Find the
mean mass of the group of 20 rugby players and ballet dancers.
8. The mean mass of 8 boys is 55 kg and the mean mass of a group of girls is 52 kg. The mean mass of all the
children is 53.2 kg. How many girls are there?
9. For the set of numbers below, find the mean and the median: 1, 3, 3, 3, 4, 6, 99
Which average best describes the set of numbers?
10. The mean age of three people is 22 and their median age is 20.
The range of their ages is 16. How old is each person?
11. These are the minimum temperatures in °𝐶 recorded by a weather station each day during one week
−2.3 − 4.6 − 1.2 − 0.7 − 1.4 − 2.4 − 3.5
(a) Find the range of these temps.
(b) How many of these temperatures are between −4°𝐶 and −2°𝐶?
12. Here are 6 numbers 25, 𝑥, 5, 10, 40, 8. The median of the numbers is 15.
(a) Find the value of 𝑥 (b) Find the mean value of the 6 numbers
13. Jenny has six cards. Each card has a whole number written on it so that
the smallest number is 5
the largest number is 24
the median of the six numbers is 14
the mode of the six numbers is 8
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Jenny arranges her cards so that the numbers are in order of size.
(a) For the remaining four cards, write on each dotted line a number that could be on the card.
A basketball team plays 6 games. After playing 5 games, the team has a mean score of 21 points per
game. After playing 6 games, the team has a mean score of 23 points per game.
(b) Work out the number of points the team scored in its 6𝑡ℎ game.
𝑎 𝑏 𝑐 𝑑 𝑑 𝑑
The mode of the integers is 9
The median of the integers is 8
The range of the integers is 4
Work out the value of 𝑎, 𝑏, 𝑐 and 𝑑
e) Marks 𝑓 f) g) h)
0 2 Marks 𝑓 Marks 𝑓 Marks 𝑓
1 5 0 3 1 5 1 12
2 9 1 4 2 7 2 9
3 8 2 5 3 8 3 8
4 7 3 12 4 18 4 7
5 1 4 14 5 2 5 6
5 20
a) b) c) Time 𝑓
Time 𝑓 Time 𝑓
50 < 𝑥 ≤ 60 17
10 < 𝑥 ≤ 20 8 0 < 𝑥 ≤ 10 7
60 < 𝑥 ≤ 70 7
20 < 𝑥 ≤ 30 11 10 < 𝑥 ≤ 20 14
70 < 𝑥 ≤ 80 4
30 < 𝑥 ≤ 40 12 20 < 𝑥 ≤ 25 15
80 < 𝑥 ≤ 90 3
40 < 𝑥 ≤ 60 5 25 < 𝑥 ≤ 30 4
90 < 𝑥 ≤ 100 2
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∎ Exercise-4:
1. Price (𝑥) $1 $2 $5 $20
No. of tickets sold (𝑓) 84 68 22 6
(c) Mean price of each ticket. (d) Modal price. (e) Median price.
2. A group of people were asked how many books they had read in the previous year: the results
are shown in the frequency table below. Calculate the mean number of books read per person.
(a) Total number of people asked, ∑ 𝑓 =? (b) Total number of books read, ∑ 𝑓𝑥 =?
3. The results of a survey of the number of cars owned by 50 families are given in the table below.
Number of Cars 0 1 2 3
Number of families 4 35 6 5
(b) When the same 50 families were surveyed at a later date, the results were as follows.
Number of Cars 0 1 2 3
Number of families 𝑥 37 𝑦 5
The mean number of cars per family stayed the same as before. Find 𝑥 and 𝑦.
The distribution of the number of fish caught by 30 fishermen in a competition is shown in the table.
(a) Given that no fisherman catches more than 24 fish, find the value of 𝑥.
(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean number of fish caught by the 30 fishermen.
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(c) Find the interval in which the median lies. (d) Find the modal group.
5.
Waiting time for
0≤𝑡<5 5 ≤ 𝑡 < 10 10 ≤ 𝑡 < 15 15 ≤ 𝑡 < 30 30 ≤ 𝑡 < 60
lift (seconds)
Frequency 0 6 8 17 22
The grouped frequency table records the waiting time, 𝑡 seconds, for a number of people waiting for
(a) Calculate an estimate for the mean waiting time for the lift. Give your answer to the nearest second.
(b) Find the interval in which the median lies. (c) Find the modal group.
6. The bar chart shows the results of a survey to find the number of children per family, in a group
Number of families
of families. 8
7. The bar chart shows the number of coins of each value that a woman has.
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Answers:
∎ Exercise-2:
[11] (a) 3.9 (b) 3, [12] (a) 𝑥 = 20, (b) 18, [13] (a) 5, 8, 8, 20, 𝑥, 24 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑥 = 21/22/23, (b) 33, [13] 5,6,7,9.
∎ Exercise-3:
[1] Mean Median Mode [2] Mean Median Mode
(a) 0.76 1 0 (a) 29.58 20 < 𝑥 ≤ 30 30 < 𝑥 ≤ 40
(b) 0.82 0 0 (b) 17.31 10 < 𝑥 ≤ 20 20 < 𝑥 ≤ 25
(c) 2.42 3 3 (c) 64.70 50 < 𝑥 ≤ 60 50 < 𝑥 ≤ 60
(d) 2.875 3 3 (d) 40.76 40 < 𝑥 ≤ 50 40 < 𝑥 ≤ 50
(e) 2.5 2.5 2 (e) 81.75 80 70 < 𝑥 ≤ 80
(f) 3.55 4 5 (f) 82.18 80 < 𝑥 ≤ 90 80 < 𝑥 ≤ 90
(g) 3.125 3.5 4
(h) 2.67 2.5 1
∎ Exercise-4:
[1] (a) 180, (b) $450, (c) $2.50, (d) $1, (e) $2, [2] (a) 50, (b) 169, (c) 3.38, [3] (a) 1.24, (b) 𝑥 = 3, 𝑦 = 5, [4] (a) 7,
(b) 1.3, (c) 10 − 14, (d) 15 − 19, [5] (a) 29 s, (b) 15 ≤ 𝑡 < 30, (c) 30 ≤ 𝑡 < 60, [6] (b) 21, (c) 2.81, [7] (a) 33,
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