CIE AS Maths: Probability & Statistics 1

Topic Questions

1.1 Statistical Measures

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Students’ marks, given as a percentage, on their recent statistics test were:

   38     41     19     33     22     0     27     19     10     99

Find the mode, range, mean and median of the students’ marks.

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Give a reason why the median is an appropriate measure of location for these data.

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Two sets of data are given below:

set 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
set 2 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 9

For set 1,

(i) Calculate the mean, top enclose x, of the data.

(ii) Calculate the variance, sigma squared, of the data using the formula:

                  sigma squared equals fraction numerator straight capital sigma open parentheses x minus top enclose x close parentheses squared over denominator n end fraction

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For set 2,

(i)
Calculate the mean, top enclose x, of the data.
(ii)
Calculate the variance, sigma squared, of the data using the formula:
               
               sigma squared equals fraction numerator straight capital sigma x squared over denominator n end fraction minus top enclose x squared

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Seven friends decide to see how long they can hold their breath underwater. Their times, in seconds, are shown below.

                59          72          69          105           77          81          92

Write down the

(i)
median, Q2,

(ii)
lower quartile, Q1,

(iii)
and the upper quartile, Q3,


of the data.

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Find the interquartile open parentheses I Q R close parentheses of the data.

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An outlier is defined as any value x such that

      x less than Q subscript 1 minus 1.5 cross times I Q R space space space space or space space space space space x greater than Q subscript 3 plus 1.5 cross times I Q R

Find the boundaries that determine outliers for the data.

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Lucy is working with some grouped, continuous data. For a set of 100 items of data, she has calculated that space sum x f space equals space 357  and  sum left parenthesis x minus x with bar on top right parenthesis squared f equals space 42, where f is the frequency for each group.

   (i)     Give a reason why Lucy has decided to group her data.

         (ii)     Briefly explain what is meant by space sum x fand space sum open parentheses x minus x with bar on top close parentheses squared space f.

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To calculate the standard deviation, Lucy could choose to use either of the following two formulae.

   standard deviation = square root of fraction numerator straight capital sigma open parentheses x italic minus x with italic bar on top close parentheses squared f over denominator straight capital sigma f end fraction end root or square root of fraction numerator straight capital sigma x to the power of italic 2 f over denominator straight capital sigma f end fraction space minus x with bar on top squared end root  where  top enclose x equals fraction numerator straight capital sigma x f over denominator straight capital sigma f end fraction

(i)
Calculate the mean of Lucy’s data. 

(ii)
Using the appropriate formula from above, calculate the standard deviation of Lucy’s data.

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As part of her veterinary course, Harriet measured the weight,  x grams, of 50 new-born kittens and summarised their data as sum space x equals space 6342 and sum space x squared space equals space 879013.

Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the weights of the kittens.

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Katie is collecting information on Jupiter’s moons for a research project. She collects data on the diameters of 78 of Jupiter’s known moons and organises the information into the table below.

Diameter d (km) Number of moons f
0 < d ≤ 1 6
1 < d ≤ 2 20
2 < d ≤ 5 23
5 < d ≤ 50 17
50 < d ≤ 1000 8
1000 < d ≤ 6000 4

(i)

Write down the modal class interval.
 
(ii)
Write down the class interval that contains the median.
(iii)
Katie discovers another moon, Valetudo, which has a diameter of 1 km. Write down the class interval which should include the diameter of Valetudo.
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Katie calculates the mean diameter of Jupiter’s moons to be 6500 km. Explain how you know Katie is incorrect.

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The number of goals scored by the 24 teams that played in the first 44 games of the UEFA Euro cup 2020 can be summarised in the table below.

Goals scored 0 - 1 2 - 3 4 - 5 6 - 7 8 - 9 10 - 11
Frequency f 3 5 5 6 4 1

Estimate the mean number of goals scored by each team.

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Find the standard deviation of the number of goals scored by each team.

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The Mythical Creatures Research Centre measures the heights, h , of nine unicorns to the nearest centimetre. The heights are shown below:

            276       219      198       154        213       243       192       161      218

Use your calculator to find the mean and standard deviation of the nine heights.

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A factory manufacturing garden chairs aims to produce 500 plastic chairs per day.

Over the period of a fortnight (10 working days), it was found thatsum open parentheses c minus 500 close parentheses space equals negative 15 and  sum open parentheses c minus 500 close parentheses squared equals 381, where c is the number of chairs made per day.

Use the formula below to find the mean number of chairs made per day over the fortnight.

               fraction numerator sum open parentheses c minus 500 close parentheses over denominator n end fraction plus space 500

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Use the formula below to find the standard deviation for the number of chairs made per day over the fortnight.

               square root of open parentheses fraction numerator sum open parentheses c minus 500 close parentheses squared over denominator n end fraction close parentheses minus open parentheses fraction numerator sum open parentheses c minus 500 close parentheses over denominator n end fraction close parentheses end root squared

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On one of the ten days, due to a mechanical problem, only 485 chairs were made.

This is an outlier. Suggest an alternative measure of central tendency (other than the mean) that should be used to avoid the outlier having a major influence on the result.

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A set of values, x, are given below:

            12 space space space space space 10 space space space space space space 8 space space space space space space space space 6 space space space space space space space 13 space space space space space space 11 space space space space space space space 9 space space space space space space 12.

(i)
Create a new set of values, d, by subtracting 10 from each value of x.
(ii)
Find the mean of the values of d.
(iii)
Show that the mean of the values of d is 10 less than the mean of the values of x.

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a, bc and d are 4 integers written in order of size, starting with the smallest. 

The sum of a, b and c is 70
The mean of a, bc and d is 25
The range of the 4 integers is 14.

Work out the median of a, bc and d

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The speeds (s), to the nearest mile per hour, of 80 vehicles passing a speed camera were recorded and are grouped in the table below. 

Speed, s
(mph)

20 space less or equal than space s space less than 25 25 space less or equal than space s space less than 30 30 space less or equal than space s space less than 35 s space greater or equal than space 35
Number of vehicles 23 48 7 2

(i)

Write down the modal class for this data.
(ii)
Write down the class group that contains the median.
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(i)
Assuming that greater or equal than space 35 means ‘at least 35 mph but less than 40 mph’, calculate an estimate for the mean speed of the 80 vehicles.
(ii)
It is now discovered that space greater or equal than space 35 spacemeans ‘at least 35 mph but less than 60 mph’. Without further calculation, state with a reason whether this would cause an increase, a decrease or no change to the value of the estimated mean.

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A veterinary nurse records the weight of puppies (in k g) at birth and again at their eight week check-up. The table below summarises the weight gain of 50 small breed puppies over their first eight weeks.

Weight gain bold italic w (kg) Number of puppies bold italic f
0.0 ≤ w < 0.5 1
0.5 ≤ w < 1.0 8
1.0 ≤ w < 1.5 19
1.5 ≤ w < 2.0 18
2.0 ≤ w < 2.5 4

Estimate the mean weight gain of the 50 puppies.

3b
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Give a reason why it is not possible to determine the exact median for this data.

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The head veterinarian directs the nurse to monitor all puppies whose weight gain lies within the bottom 20% of the dataset.

Explain why, without further information, the veterinary nurse would have to monitor over 50% of the puppies to be sure of satisfying this instruction.

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Workers at an elephant sanctuary measure the health of their elephants by weighing the amount of dung (d space k g) each one produces. The data for the mass of dung produced in one day by 18 elephants can be summarised as  space sum d space equals space 895 space space and space space sum d squared equals space 45 space 810.

Calculate the mean and variance of the amount of dung produced that day.

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An outlier is identified as any data value, d, such that

               open vertical bar d minus d with bar on top close vertical bar greater than 2 cross times standard space deviation

Determine the weights below and above which the amount of dung the elephant produces in a day would classify the elephant as an outlier.

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A machine is set to fill sacks of potatoes to a target weight of 50 kg, although the actual weight of the sacks (w space k g) can vary from that target.  

To test the accuracy of the machine, a random sample of 20 sacks is taken  which is summarised by sum open parentheses w minus 50 close parentheses equals 20 space space and space sum open parentheses w minus 50 close parentheses squared space equals space 220.

Calculate the exact values of the mean and standard deviation of w.

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Calculate the value of

(i)
sum w

(ii)
sum w squared
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Another 10 sacks of potatoes are sampled and the mean of these is found to be 49 kg.  Calculate the mean of all 30 sacks of potatoes and comment on the accuracy of the machine.

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Whilst in lockdown, 100 people were asked to record the length of time, rounded to the nearest minute, that they spent exercising on a particular day. 

The results are summarised in the table below:

Time mins Frequency bold italic f
0 ≤ t ≤10 1
10 < t ≤20 12
20 < t ≤30 25
30 < t ≤40 a
40 < t ≤50 b
50 < t ≤60 14

Given that the estimate of the mean time spent exercising based on this table is 35.4 minutes, find the values of a and b.

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The ages, x years, of 200 people attending a vaccination clinic in one day are summarised by the following: space sum space x equals 7211 space a n d space space sum space x squared equals 275 space 360.

Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the ages of the people attending the clinic that day.

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One person chooses not to get the vaccine, so their data is discounted. The new mean is exactly 36.  Calculate the age of the person who left and the standard deviation of the remaining people.

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In January of 2021, the UK government announced a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of the coronavirus.  The table below shows the means and standard deviations of the average amounts of time spent indoors per day by some people in London, UK and in Wellington, New Zealand, in January of 2021.

  Number of people Mean (hr) Standard deviation
London 25 20.9 1.51
Wellington 15 15.1 2.87

Suggest a reason, in the context of the question, for why

(i)
the mean in London is higher than the mean in Wellington

(ii)

the standard deviation in London is lower than the standard deviation in Wellington.
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Based on the data in the table, do you think the government in New Zealand had imposed the same restrictions as those in the UK?  Give a reason for your answer.

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Calculate the overall mean for the average amounts of time spent indoors by all 40 people.

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In the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, the Women's Individual Bronze Medial Archery match was contested between the USA's Lia Coryell and Great Britain's Victoria Rumary.

Each competitor fired three arrows from each of five "ends" and they acquired a total score for each end. The competitor with the highest overall score for the five ends won the match and bronze medal.

Using an assumed mean of 25,Lia's scores for her five ends are summarised as sum d equals negative 2 space and space sum d squared space equals 6.

Using an assumed mean of 25, Victoria's scores for her five ends are summarised as sum d equals 6 space a n d space sum d squared equals 26.

Explain how, without any calculations, you can determine that Great Britain won the bronze medal.

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Find the mean and standard deviation of the scores for both Lia and Victoria.

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Compare Lia's and Victoria's mean scores and standard deviations.

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A pharmacy sells face masks in a variety of sizes.  Their sales over a week are recorded in the table below:

  Kids Adults
Size Small Large S M L XL
Frequency f 29 4 8 24 15 4

(i)

Write down the mode for this data.
(ii)
Explain why, in this case, the mode from part (i) would not be particularly helpful to the shop owner when reordering masks.
(iii)
Given that the shop is open every day of the week, calculate the mean number of masks sold per day.

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Fran sits three Maths papers and six Science papers during her final A Level exams.  She achieves a mean score of 62.7% across the three Maths exam papers, and needs an overall mean score of 78.5% across all nine papers to get into her chosen University.  After getting the results of four out of her six Science papers, her mean score in Science is 84.2%.

Given that each of the nine papers is weighted equally when working out the mean scores, calculate the mean score she must achieve on her final two science papers in order to gain a place at University.

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Coffee4Life manufactures reusable coffee cups out of coffee plant waste.  Coffee cups are tested to see how many times they can be used before they begin to disintegrate.  A sample of 16 cups are tested, giving the following results for numbers of uses:

                     31    36    40    41    

                     47    49    51    56    

                      58    62    62    62

                     64    68    69    70    

(I)
Write down the modal number of times a cup can be used.
(ii)
Find the values of the lower quartile, median and upper quartile.
(iii)
25% of the results are greater than or equal to p uses.
Find the value of p.
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The advertising department at Coffee4Life designs an advert which says;

      “If used once a day,  3 over 4 of our cups last longer than 9 weeks.”

Explain the mistake that the advertising department has made, and state how the advert could be reworded to make it correct.

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The lengths (l cm) of a sample of nine otters, measured to the nearest centimetre by a wildlife research team, are:

                        76     77      91      65       63      83      92      61      88

Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the nine recorded lengths.

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A machine is set to fill sacks of potatoes to a weight of 50 space k g.

In a random sample of 7 sacks the following weights in kg were recorded:sum open parentheses w minus 50 close parentheses equals negative 14.6, where wk g is the weight of a sack of potatoes.

Show that the mean weight of the sampled sacks of potatoes is less than 50 space k g.

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Given that sum open parentheses w minus 50 close parentheses squared space equals 170.2, find the standard deviation of the sampled sacks of potatoes.

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During initial small aircraft pilot training candidates must sit an aptitude test. Grades for the latest 28 candidates are shown in the table below (0 is the lowest grade, 8 is the highest); 

Grade Frequency f
2
1 3
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 2
6 5
7 4
8 3

Candidate in the bottom 25% are qualified.

Calculate the grade candidates must achieve to avoid disqualification.

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Those who score in the top 25% move on to the next stage of training while the rest (other than those who have been disqualified) must re-sit the test..

One of the candidates, Amelia, achieves grade 6 . Determine whether Amelia will need to re-sit the test or will be moved on to the next stage of training. 

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A random sample of 50 students were asked how long they spent revising for their Math exam in the 24 hours before the exam.  The results are shown in the table below:

Time t (minutes) Number of students f
0 ≤ t < 60 5
60 ≤ t < 120 6
120 ≤ t < 180 17
180 ≤ t < 240 14
240 ≤ t < 300 8

Write down the modal group for these data.

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Using x to represent the mid-point of each class,  sum space x f space equals space 8340 and sum space x squared space f space equals space 1636 space 200.

Estimate the mean and the standard deviation of the amount of time students spent revising.

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A college needs to standardise the test scores of all students before submitting them to the Exam Board.  The scores are standardised by using the coding space sum open parentheses x minus 53 close parentheses, where x represents the raw test score. The college calculates the mean standardised test score to be 42 and the standard deviation to be 3.1.  Find the mean and standard deviation of the raw test scores.

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The times, in seconds, taken by 8 skaters to finish a 1000 m race are listed below:

            75 space space space space space space 77 space space space space space space space 82 space space space space space space space 84 space space space space space space space 79 space space space space space space space 81 space space space space space space space 80 space space space space space space 76

By using an appropriate assumed mean, calculate the true mean and true standard deviation of the speed skaters' times.

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A golfer records her scores for her last 8 rounds of golf, which are given below.

            73 space space space space space space space 75 space space space space space space space space 81 space space space space space space space 72 space space space space space space space space 76 space space space space space space space space 99 space space space space space space space 80 space space space space space space space 78 space space

(i)
Find the median open parentheses Q subscript 2 close parentheses, the lower quartile open parentheses Q subscript 1 close parentheses and the upper quartile open parentheses Q subscript 3 close parentheses.
(ii)
Find the interquartile range.
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An outlier is defined as any value x such that

         x space less than space Q subscript 1 minus 1.5 space cross times space open parentheses Q subscript 3 minus Q subscript 1 close parentheses space space space space space space space space space space space space space or space space space space space space space space space space x space space greater than space Q subscript 3 space plus space 1.5 space cross times open parentheses Q subscript 3 minus Q subscript 1 close parentheses

(i)
Find the boundaries that determine outliers for the golfer's  scores.
(ii)
Hence determine if any of the golfer's  last 8 scores were outliers.

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Whilst in lockdown, a group of people were asked to record the length of time, t hours, they spent browsing the internet on a particular day. 

The results are summarised in the table below.

Time, t (hours) Frequency, f
t ≤ 2 3
2 < t ≤ 4 5
4 < t ≤ 6 a
6 < t ≤ 8 10
8 < t ≤10 2

From this data an A Level Statistics student calculated that the estimated mean time spent browsing the internet is 5 hours and 15 minutes. Calculate the value of a and find the estimated variance of the length of time spent browsing the internet.

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Zisien measures the speeds, x miles per hour, of a number of cars passing her house one day.  She knows that the speed limit is 30 miles per hour so she decides to use the coding  yx – 30  when she records the data. 

She finds that  sum space open parentheses x minus 30 close parentheses equals 13.4 space space and space sum space open parentheses x minus 30 close parentheses squared space equals 1470.

Is it more likely that more of the cars in Zisien’s sample were going over or under the speed limit that day? Give a reason for your answer.

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Given that the mean speed of the cars in Zisien’s sample, x with bar on top , is 30.67 miles per hour, calculate the standard deviation of x.

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Zisien's sister. Ying, worked out the median of the speeds of the cars and found it was 27.43 miles per hour.

Use this information to comment on your answer to (a).

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Two friends, Anna and Connor, are playing a gaming app on their phones.  As they play, they can choose from three different booster options.  They are unaware that each of the three options are charging them automatically from their mobile accounts.  The number of in-app purchases they each make are shown in the table below.

  Super-charge Re-energise Level-up
Anna 4 0 2
Connor 3 6 1

(i)

The mean and standard deviation of the cost of Anna’s in-app purchases are
£0.50 and £0 respectively.  Write down the cost of a single in-app purchase to ‘Level-up’.
(ii)
Given that the mean cost of Connor’s in-app purchases is £0.38, find the standard deviation of the costs of Connor’s purchases.

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Botanists at a research centre are carrying out research on a new type of fertiliser.  They collect data on the heights of one group of geraniums growing without the fertiliser (the control group) and of another group growing with the fertiliser (the experimental group).  They take care to keep all other growing conditions the same for both groups.

The table below shows the heights of the control group of geraniums 15 weeks after planting. 

Height (cm) < 10 < 15 < 20 < 25 < 30 < 35 < 40
Cumulative Frequency 2 7 12 19 34 39 40

 

(i)
Write down the modal class interval for the heights of geraniums in the control group.
(ii)
Find the class interval which contains the median.
(iii)
Find the smallest and largest possible values for the interquartile range of the heights of the control group.
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The data for the group of geraniums growing in the experimental group were summarised as follows

      straight Q subscript 1 equals 23.4 space cm space space space space space space space space space space space space space space space space space straight Q subscript 2 equals 27.1 space cm space space space space space space space space space space space space space space space space space straight Q subscript 3 equals 28.5 space cm

The shortest plant in the experimental group was 15.2 cm and the tallest was 33.5 cm. 

Compare the distribution of the heights of the plants in the two groups.

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Wildlife researchers are studying the swimming speeds, x kmph, of two species of penguin, the emperor penguin and the gentoo penguin.  The mean swimming speed of 40 gentoo penguins was found to be space 31.4 space kmph spaceand the standard deviation was found to be 3.8 space kmph.

Allowing x subscript G to represent the swimming speeds of the gentoo penguins, show that sum x subscript G equals 1256  and calculate the value of sum x subscript G squared.

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The swimming speeds of 20 emperor penguins (x subscript E) were also recorded and the mean swimming speed of all 60 penguins surveyed was found to be 24.1 space kmph. Given that  sum x squared equals 41891,  calculate the mean and standard deviation of the 20 emperor penguins.

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Some entomologists were studying the amount of time two different species of butterflies spent cocooned.  The table shows the means and standard deviations of the time spent cocooned, measured in days, by 15 Monarch butterflies and 25 Common Blue butterflies.

Species Mean Standard deviation
Monarch   1.51
Common Blue 13.4 1.24

Given that the overall mean time for all 40 butterflies was 11.93 days, calculate the mean number of days the Monarch butterflies spent cocooned and complete the table.

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Calculate the overall standard deviation of the time spent cocooned by all 40 butterflies.

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Lab technicians were studying the effect of caffeine on mice.  The resting heart rates, x beats per minute (bpm), of some mice were recorded and the results were summarised by straight capital sigma open parentheses x minus a close parentheses = 150  and   straight capital sigma open parentheses x minus a close parentheses squared = 1050,  where a is a constant.

Given that the variance of the resting heart rates was found to be 10 bpm², calculate the two possible options for the number of mice in the study.

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The mean resting heart rate is found to be 605 bpm.  Using this information, write down the two possible options for the value of a.

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8a
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Hattie’s homeroom teacher decides to summarise the number of minutes, t, she has been late to school during the last year in preparation for a parents’ meeting.  The results are shown in the table below.

Time t (mins) Frequency f
-10 ≤ t < -5 3
-5 ≤ t < 0 19
0 ≤ t < 5 32
 5 ≤ t < 10 a
10 ≤ t < 20 53
20 ≤ t < 60 24

Write down, in the context of the question, what the time interval negative 10 space less or equal than space t space less than space minus 5 space represents.

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(i)
Using x to represent the mid-point of each class, write an expression in terms of a for sum f x, giving your answer in simplified form.  
(ii)
Given that sum f x equals 2132.5 space and space sum f x squared equals 53568.75calculate the estimated mean and standard deviation of the amount of time Hattie was late for school last year.
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Hattie happens to notice that on three of the days she was recorded as being 40 minutes late for school, she had actually arrived 40 minutes early.  Calculate the corrected estimate for the mean amount of time she was late for school last year.

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The data is split into two sets such that the first has n subscript 1 data values and  top enclose x subscript 1 space equals space a subscript 1 plus top enclose d subscript 1 and the second has n subscript 2 data values top enclose x space subscript 2 space equals space a subscript 2 plus top enclose d subscript 2, where a subscript i are assumed means for each set and n subscript i top enclose d subscript i equals sum open parentheses x subscript i minus a subscript i close parentheses.

Show that

         top enclose x space equals space fraction numerator n subscript 1 open parentheses space top enclose d subscript 1 plus a subscript 1 close parentheses plus n subscript 2 open parentheses space top enclose d subscript 2 plus a subscript 2 close parentheses over denominator n subscript 1 plus n subscript 2 end fraction

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Given that top enclose x ≠ 0,  top enclose x space equals space 2 top enclose x subscript 1 and  top enclose x subscript 2 space equals 4 top enclose x subscript 1, show that n subscript 1 space equals space 2 n subscript 2.

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