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1. Asha keeps hens so that she has a regular supply of fresh eggs. During March, the
numbers of eggs she collected on each day were as follows.
4 5 8 4 6 5 6 7 7 10 11 18 12 9 5 6
5 6 4 5 5 6 7 8 8 13 10 11 14 9 10
(i) Find the median number of eggs collected. [1]
(ii) Find the upper quartile, lower quartile and interquartile range. [3]
(iii) Draw a box and whisker plot for the data. [3]
(iv) Using your answers to part (ii), identify any outliers. [3]
(v) Calculate the mean number of eggs laid per day. [2]
(vi) State the nature of the skewness in your diagram. How do your answers to
parts (i) and (v) support your answer? How do your answers to parts (i) and
(ii) support your answer? [3]
Frequency
per second
1.8
1.6
1.4
1.2
1.0
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Time in seconds
(i) Show that the frequency in the 0 10 class interval is 5. Find the remaining
frequencies. Hence illustrate the data by a cumulative frequency graph. [5]
(ii) Use your cumulative frequency graph to find the 10th and 90th percentiles.
What proportion of the data lies between these two times? [3]
(iii) Calculate estimates of the mean and standard deviation of the length of
advertisements. [5]
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It was later found that the times recorded within each interval were in fact at the
upper class boundary for that interval.
(iv) State, with a reason, how this information would affect your answers to part
(iii). [2]
3. The cumulative frequency graph below illustrates the distribution of the weights,
x kg, of 150 newly-born babies in a hospitals maternity unit.
Cumulative
frequency
150
150
142
130
125
107
100
75 74
52
50
25 22
7
0
2.5 2.75 3.0 3.25 3.5 3.75 4.0 4.25 4.5
Weight in kg
(i) Use the cumulative frequency graph to estimate the median and interquartile
range. [3]
(ii) Draw a box and whisker plot for the data. [3]
(iii) Copy and complete the following frequency table. Hence calculate an
estimate of the mean weight of the 150 babies. [3]
During the same period of time, 18 babies were born in the special care baby unit
of the hospital. The mean weight of all 168 babies was found to be 3.35 kg (to 3
significant figures).
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(iv) Calculate an estimate of the mean weight of the 18 babies in the special care
unit. [3]
(v) What effect will the addition of the 18 extra data items have on the median
and on the interquartile range? Explain your reasoning. [3]
4. A motoring magazine carried out a survey of the value of petrol-driven cars that
were five years old. In the survey, the value of each car was expressed as a
percentage of its value when new. The results of the survey are summarised in the
following table.
Total 60 marks
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