Presenting data and interpreting results

Use the numbers 83, 78, 96, 95, 78 to answer Questions 1–4.
1 The mean of the numbers is
a 18 b 78 c 83 d 86
2 The median of the numbers is
a 96 b 78 c 83 d 86
3 The mode of the numbers is
a 18 b 78 c 83 d 86
4 The range of the numbers is
a 18 b 78 c 83 d 86
5 The mean of five numbers is 9. Four of the numbers are 7, 8, 10, 12. The fifth number is
a 7 b 8 c 10 d 12
6 The total of 25 numbers is 575, and the total of 5 other numbers is 85. The mean of the 30 numbers is
a 20 b 22 c 40 d 44
Use this histogram to answer Questions 7 and 8. It shows the ages of people who took part in a survey.

7 How many people were in the survey?

a 21 b 18 c 8 d 4
8 What is the modal age?
a 8 b 17
c 13–16 d 16–19
9 In a year group of 216 students, 15 of them achieved 90% or above in their maths test. What angle
would represent these 15 students on a pie chart?
a 15° b 90° c 25° d 7°
This stem-and-leaf diagram shows the number of televisions sold on a website each day, over a period of
19 days. Questions 10 and 11 refer to this diagram.

10 What is the range for this data?

a 42 b 2 c 40 d 9
11 What is the modal number of televisions sold?
a 3 b 4 c 23 d 14
12 The time series below shows the depth of water in a tidal river estuary during a 12-hour period.

13 What was the depth of water at 08:30?

a 4.5 m b 4.8 m
c 4.25 m d 4.2 m
14 The median of 8, 3, 1, 7, 3, 4, 8, 3, 4, 9, 5 is
a 3 b 4 c 5 d 7
15 The mode of 8, 3, 1, 7, 3, 4, 8, 3, 4, 9, 5 is
a 3 b 4 c 5 d 7
16

The Pie chart shows the results of a mathematics test by 60 students in Form 3 of indus valley
School. The number of students who get Grade 2 is:
a 12 b 19 c 20 d 41
17 The mean of six numbers is 15. The numbers 5 and 9 are added. What is the mean of the eight
numbers?
a 13 b 11 c 10 d 4
18 There are 200 members in a Youth Club. The following table shows the number in different
organizations
Organisation Number of members
Cadets 40
Scouts 25
Guides 20
Venturers 12
Other 60
None 43
A pie chart is drawn to represent the information. The angle which represents the sector for
Guides is
a 36° b 60° c 90° d 100°

19 A pie chart is drawn to show the percentage of students getting Grades 1–4 in the final examination.
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4
15% 25% 50% 10%
20 The angle representing those getting Grade 2 is:
a 36° b 60° c 90° d 100°
21 The bar chart shows the favourite sports of some members of a club

How many members does the club have?

a 45 b 50
23

The two pie charts below show the results of a survey about favourite
sweets for a group of boys and a group of girls.

(a) George says that more boys than girls like mints. Using the
information in the pie charts only, is this true, false or impossible to say?

(b) 18 girls chose fruit sweets as their favourite.

How many girls were there in total in the survey group?
 girls

(c) 120 boys were in the survey group in total.

How many boys chose nut-flavoured sweets as their favourite?

boys

24 The stem-and-leaf diagram shows the lengths in centimetres of fish in a tank.

(a) What is the modal fish length?

(b) What is the median fish length?

(c) One more fish was added to the tank. It had a length of 5.3 cm.

(i) Add this fish to the stem-and-leaf diagram above.

(ii) What effect does this new fish have on the median fish length?
25(a) A group of students took a test.
The marks they scored are shown in the pie chart below.

If 21 students had a mark from 30 to 39, how many students

had a mark from 40 to 50?

(b) Another group of students took the same test. Their results are
shown in the table below. Complete the table by working out the
angles for the pie chart for Group B.

Group B

Mark out of 50 Number of students Angle on pie chart

0–9 9

10–19 8

20–29 5

30–39 4

40–50 4
Total 30
(c) Complete the pie chart below for Group B using your answer to part (b).

(d) Out of Group A and Group B only one group did a lot of work before
the test as revision. The other group did no revision work.
Which group do you think did revision work?
Give a reason for your answer.

Group did revision work because