CALA 1 2022

LEARNER’S GUIDE

LEARNING AREA : COMBINED SCIENCE

LEVEL : O LEVEL
NAME :………………………………………..
CANDIDATE NUMBER :………………………………………..
SCHOOL: GEORGE STARK HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS: FORM 4
DURATION: 2 WEEKS

BACKGROUND

A local Spray Painting company needs to stock up on the most common paint colour so as to
meet local demand. The Company’s main business activity is panel beating and repainting of
accident damaged vehicles. In this practical activity you are expected to assist this Company by
contacting a research on the most common paint colour for vehicles available locally. You will
collect data on the colour of cars passing through a main road in your area in order to give them
ideas of popularity of different paint colours in cars.

HOW YOU WILL BE ASSESED?

You will be assessed in your ability to:

1. Collect data on colour of cars passing through your data collection point
2. Present data in tallies, tables, graphs and pie charts
3. Interpret the data presented
CALA DESCRIPTION

PART A (DATA COLLECTION)

You are to select time when you will go out to a main road and collect data on colour of cars
passing by.

NB: stay away from roads during your data collection by finding a safe spot that is at least
8 metres away from the road

a. Give the following details about your execution of the task. You have to state

i) Location and place where data was collected

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(1 Mark)
 ii) Date of data collection
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(1 Mark)

iii) Time of data collection

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(1Mark)

b. Create a suitable Table and present the raw data collected using a tally system in the
space provided below.

(5 Marks)
PART B (DATA PRESENTATION)

Present the data collected on colour of cars using a table

[7 Marks]

Present the data collected on car colour using a suitable graph.

[10Marks]
Present data collected on car colour using a pie chart

[10 Marks]

PART C: (DATA ANALYSIS)

a. List 3 most common paint colours in cars surveyed in order of their popularity

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[3 Marks]

b. State the 2 least popular paint colours

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[2 Marks]