Chapter 9: Data collection, representation and analysis

Worksheet A
1 Four Year 8 classes are asked what their favourite soft drink is out of cola, lemonade
and fizzy orange. The results are shown in the table below.

Soft drink 8A 8B 8C 8D
Cola 12 8 9 7
Lemonade 7 6 4 11
Fizzy orange 3 8 10 5

a How many students in 8C chose fizzy orange as their favourite soft drink?

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b What is the most popular soft drink in 8D?

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c How many students are in 8B?

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d Which soft drink had the most votes in total?

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2 The graph below shows the height of 5 students.

Student’s heights

Height (cm)

Lily Eric Chris Mel Felix

Student

a How tall is Chris ?________________________________________

b How tall is Felix?________________________________________

c Who is the tallest of the five students? ____________________________

d Who is the shortest of the five students?_____________________________

e What is the difference in height between Eric and Lily?

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3 The heights of a group of 20 students are shown below, given to the nearest cm.

157, 162, 148, 160, 156, 168, 161, 155, 153, 146,
166, 159, 161, 173, 162, 150, 157, 163, 164, 167,

a Complete the frequency table below.

Height (cm) 145–149 150–154 155–159 160–164 165–169 170–174

Tally
Frequency

b How many students are 160 cm or taller?

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c How many students are between 150 cm and 159 cm?

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d What type of data is this? Justify your answer.

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4 Consider the following set of data: 2, 8, -3, 5, 0, -4, 8, 9, -1, 6.

a Find the mean. ____________________________________________________

b Find the mode. ____________________________________________________

c Find the median. ___________________________________________________

d Find the range. ____________________________________________________

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5 A survey is conducted that asks 100 randomly selected adults how many children they
have. The results are shown in the frequency table below.

Number of children 0 1 2 3 4
Frequency
35 30 20 10 5

a Plot the results on a histogram.

b Is the distribution skewed or symmetrical? _____________________________

Assume that this sample is representative of the population.

c What proportion of the adult population has two children?

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d Of a group of 1000 adults, how many of them would you expect to have no
children?

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e Why would conducting this survey outside a childcare centre cause a bias in
this result?

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6 The following stem-and-leaf plot shows the times that each student finished a running
race (in seconds).

Stem Leaf
30 4 6 9 9
31
32 3 3 a 7
33 4 7
34 1
35
36
37
38 0

a If the mode time is 5 minutes and 23 seconds, what is the value of a?

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b How many students competed in the race?

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c What is the range of the data?

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d What is the IQR?

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e It was found that the student who was noted as running the race in 380
seconds actually took 338 seconds. After allowing for the time correction,
what is the new IQR? Explain why the IQR has or has not changed.

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