"Full Coverage": Mean & Frequency Tables

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Question 1
Categorisation: Determine the mean of a list of values.

[Edexcel GCSE Nov2010-2F Q11b]

Here are the weights, in kg, of 7 people.

57 87 49 49 72 45 75

Work out the mean weight.

.......................... kg

Question 2
Categorisation: Determine a list of integers given information about their mean,
median, range and mode.

[Edexcel IGCSE Jan2017-1F Q16, Jan2017-3H Q2]

Three integers have a mean of 7, a median of 5 and a range of 14.

Find the three integers.

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Question 3
Categorisation: Determine the value included that resulted in a change of mean.

[Edexcel GCSE Nov2013-1H Q13]

Hertford Juniors is a basketball team.

At the end of 10 games, their mean score is 35 points per game.

At the end of 11 games, their mean score has gone down to 33 points per game.

How many points did the team score in the 11th game?

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Question 4
Categorisation: Determine the resulting mean when a value is removed.

[Edexcel IGCSE Jan2014-4H Q10]

The mean of four numbers is 2.6.
One of the four numbers is 5.

Find the mean of the other three numbers.

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Question 5
Categorisation: Determine the combined mean of two groups.

[Edexcel IGCSE May2012-4H Q2]

A group of students take a test. The group consists of 12 boys and 8 girls.
The mean mark for the boys is 18. The mean mark for the girls is 16.5
Calculate the mean mark for the whole group.

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Question 6
Categorisation: Determine the mean of one group given the combined mean and the
mean of the other group(s).

[Edexcel GCSE(9-1) Mock Set 3 Autumn 2017 1H Q8a]

20 men, 10 women and 10 children are in a competition.

The mean score for the women is 15.6. The mean score for the children is 9.2.
Kevin says that the mean score for all 40 people is 11.2.
Work out the mean score for the men.

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Question 7
Categorisation: Determine the mean of a (non-grouped) frequency table.

[Edexcel GCSE Nov2008-4H Q17]

Majid carried out a survey of the number of school dinners 32 students had in one week.

The table shows this information.

Calculate the mean.

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Question 8
Categorisation: Determine the total of a (non-grouped) frequency table.

[Edexcel GCSE(9-1) Mock Set 3 Autumn 2017 3F Q16b]

The table shows information about the number of children in each of 40 families.

Work out the total number of children.

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Question 9
Categorisation: Estimate the mean of a grouped frequency table.

[Edexcel IGCSE Jan2017-1F Q23b, Jan2017-3H Q6]

The table gives information about the distances, in kilometres, Darren travelled to deliver 100
parcels.

Work out an estimate for the mean distance Darren travelled to deliver these parcels.

.......................... km

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Question 10
Categorisation: Estimate the total of a grouped frequency table.

[Edexcel IGCSE Jan2017(R)-3H Q9b]

The table gives information about the weights of 20 rugby players.

Work out an estimate for the total weight of these 20 rugby players.

.......................... kg

Question 11
Categorisation: Determine the median from an ungrouped frequency table.

[Edexcel IGCSE Jan2017-2F Q8e, Jan2017-4H Q1 Edited]

The table below shows information about the number of goals scored by a football club in
each of its last 45 games.

Find the median number of goals.

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Question 12
Categorisation: Determine the median class
interval from a grouped frequency table.

[Edexcel GCSE June2003-4I Q14a, June2003-6H

Q3a] A garage keeps records of the costs of
repairs to its customers’ cars.
The table gives information about the costs of
all repairs which were less than £250 in one week.
Find the class interval in which the median lies.

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Question 13
Categorisation: Determine the modal class interval.

[Edexcel IGCSE June2010-3H Q6a] The table shows

information about the volume of water, in m3, used by
each of 80 families in one year.

Write down the modal class.

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Question 14
Categorisation: Estimate a frequency for a given
range (which forms a fraction of one of the class
intervals).

[Edexcel GCSE June2012-1H Q22b] The table gives

some information about the speeds, in km/h, of 100
cars.

Work out an estimate for the number of cars with a speed of more than 85 km/h.

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Question 15
Categorisation: Draw a frequency polygon.

[Edexcel GCSE Nov2016-1F Q22b, Nov2016-1H Q6b]

The table shows some information about the ages of 60 teachers.

Draw a frequency polygon for the information in the table.

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Answers

Question 1 Question 13
62 kg 400 < 𝑉 ≤ 500

Question 2 Question 14
1 and 5 and 15 18

Question 3 Question 15
13

Question 4
1.8

Question 5
17.4

Question 6
10

Question 7
2.4

Question 8
66

Question 9
9.4 km

Question 10
2050 kg

Question 11
2

Question 12
150 < 𝐶 ≤ 200

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