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Planning and collecting data @ Collecting data @ tis section ofa story contains 303 words. ‘Look at that view; it is absolutely amazing!’ said Lynn as they arrived at their lodge by the Zambezi river. ‘Knew you'd like it,’ replied Michelle with agrin. ‘Now let's get unpacked and then we can head out for an evening drive to see what animals are around.’ Quickly the six of them unpacked the two jeeps they had just driven from Harare. All the food and drink was put away in the kitchen, the luggage was put in the bedrooms and the cameras were unpacked ready for action. Lynn said, ‘I cannot believe we are actually here in Zimbabwe with you all. And I cannot believe you are about to take us on our first ever game drive. I am so excited!’ Carl replied “Well, I am excited too, and I have been here loads of times! You and Greg come in the jeep with Michelle and me, and Nigel and Patch can follow in the second jeep. And no getting out of the jeep at all, as we do not want you to be eaten by a lion on day one! By the way, where are Nigel and Greg?’ “We are up here,’ came a reply from upstairs. ‘Lynn, come and have a look at this!’ shouted Greg. ‘I’ve counted twenty hippos in the water, and I can see three elephants on the bank on the opposite side of the river. Awesome!’ Eventually they left to go on their game drive, cameras at the ready. They drove very slowly along the rutted tracks, keeping a lookout for signs of animal life. ‘What is that over there, it looks like a dog with huge ears?’ asked Lynn. ‘Oh wow, Lynn, that is a painted dog,’ replied Michelle. ‘You are so lucky to see one of those as they are very rare!” You are going to carry out a survey on the number of letters in the words in the storu. © Explain why you should have at least 30 words in your sample. © Which of these options do you think is the best way to choose the words for your sample? Explain your reasoning. A. The first 30 words in the story. Every tenth word. B The last 30 words in the story. 7 Every other word until you have ‘enough words. © 30words from the middle of the story. G The first and last word of every line until you have enough words. D The first word of the first 30 sentences. @ Use the method you chose in part b) to get a sample of words from the story. Underline the words that you are going to use. © complete these tally charts. Number of Number of letters Tally | Frequency letters Tally | Frequency inword inword 1 14 2 5-8 3 9-12 4 Total 5 6 7 8 9 10+ Total 5) © Which of the tally charts in part d) is most useful in reaching a conclusion about the length of the words in the story? Explain your answer. @ write a conclusion based on the data you have collected. @ Types of data @ sivecn example of discrete data that some people may thinkis continuous data. For example: have asked 10 people their scores ina quiz. My results are 16, 16%, 18, 19, 195, 103,10, 173, 18, 143. This is continuous data as the values aren't whole numbers. Prnteet @ sive an example of continuous data that some people may thinkis discrete dota. For example: have asked 10 people their ages. My results are 23, 25, 22, 18, 36, 42, 12, 15, 17, 20. This is discrete data as the values are @ Using frequency tables © tere are some times, to the nearest minute, that 30 students took to complete a puzzle. TiS omer 10) Sis! S| HOTS 7 6 & Ww 7 7 9 2 12 4 4 8 1 9 2 5 6 lL 20 © Draw a grouped frequency table for this data. Make sure your table has five or six class intervals and the intervals are the same size. © Write a conclusion based on the results of your grouped frequency table. © sostudents were asked their favourite English football team. Ofthe 48 boys, Z chose Arsenal and i chose Liverpool, but none chose Chelsea. Oftthe girls, 2596 chose Manchester City, This numbers the same as the Chelsea total. None of the girls chose Liverpool and only 1 chose Manchester United. The total for Manchester United was 3 more than the total for Manchester City, Complete the two-way table showing the information above. Arsenal | Chelsea | Liverpool | Manchester | Manchester | Total city United Girls Total ting Mixed questions © on satari, Greg takes 1500 photos of animals either eating, walking, running or playing. of all the photos were of monkeys, and half of those were of monkeys playing, butnone of them was of monkeys eating, The rest of the monkey photos were walking: running in the ratio 4:1. There were the same number of photos of warthogs running as monkeys running. Of the 120 warthog photos, 30 were walking. The remainder of the warthog photos were of them eating. ofall the photos were of elephants. 2 ofthe elephant photos were of them eating, 20% of them were walking. The rest of the elephant photos were of them playing, The total number of photos of animals playing was 350. There were 15 photos of impala walking. The ratio of the photos of impala eating : running was 5:2. Complete the two-way table to show the information above. Eating | Walking | Running | Playing Total Elephant Monkey Impala Warthog Total

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