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Achievement/Merit – Answer the following questions on pie charts.

59. An electronics store sells 5 different makes 60. Jake’s iTunes music collection comprises
of TV. The proportion of sales by brand last 80 albums. A breakdown of the different types
month are given in the pie chart below. of albums (genres) he has are given in the table
below.
Monthly TV Sales by Brand
Type Pop Rock Country Blues R&B
No. 30 20 18 10 2
Son

LG
y

Toshiba a) Draw a pie chart to represent Jake’s iTunes

music collection by first calculating the
Sharp angle size for each sector.
Samsung

a)The pie chart above is divided into

20 sections. What does each section
represent as a percentage?

b) What was the most popular brand of TV the Jake’s iTunes Music
electronics store sold last month?

c) What was the least popular brand(s) of TV the

electronics store sold last month?

d) What percentage of TVs sold by the electronics

store last month were LG?

e) What percentage of TVs sold by the electronics

store last month were Samsung? b) What percentage of Jake’s music collection is
pop?

f) If the electronics store sold 60 TVs last month

how many of them were Samsung TVs? c)What two types (genre) of music albums
in Jake’s collection combine to give the same
number as rock albums?
g) If the electronics store sold 60 TVs last month
how many of them were Sharp TVs?
d) What fraction of Jake’s albums are country
albums?
h) What angle does the Samsung sector of the
pie chart represent?

e) What proportion of Jake’s music is Blues?

i) What angle does the

Sharp sector of the
pie chart?

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61. Five hundred tourists were asked to identify 62. In the 2006 New Zealand census the main
their favourite destination in New Zealand. heating fuels used in private dwellings were
The results are given in the pie chart below. Electricity 55%, Wood 20%, Gas 15% Coal 5%,
Favourite NZ Destination Solar 0.5%, Other 2%, No heating 2.5%.
Franz Josef 15% Auckland 15% a) Draw a pie chart to represent the 2006 NZ
Milford Rotorua 5% census figures on heating fuels used in private
Sound 10%
dwellings by first calculating the angle size for
Christchurch 5% Taupo 20% each sector.
Queenstown 25% Wellington 5%

a) What was the most popular destination within

New Zealand?

b) How many tourists opted for Taupo as their

most favourite destination? Heating Fuels

c) What was the least popular South Island

destination chosen by the tourists?

d)Did the tourists identify the North Island

as a better destination than the South Island?
Justify your answer.

b)In 2006 in a NZ town of 20 000 private

dwellings how many would you expected to
have no form of heating?

e) What angle does the Taupo sector measure in c) What two forms of heating were used in
the pie graph? three-quarters of all NZ private dwellings in
2006?

f) How many tourists voted for Franz Josef

Glacier as their favourite destination within
New Zealand?
d) Why do you think electricity was the most
popular form of heating in private dwellings in
g) What angle does the Rotorua sector measure in 2006?
the pie graph?

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45. a) 49. Moderate to strong negative 57. a) and c)
Birth Date relationship. Weight (kg)
0 2 6 3 6 7 5 1
1 4 8 1 9 3 2 2 6 50. No relationship. 200
2 3 7 4 2 5 7 7 8 51. Moderate positive 160
3 0 1 0 1
relationship.
b) 120

Birth Date
52. Strong positive relationship. 80
0 1 2 3 5 6 6 7 53. Weak negative
1 1 2 2 3 4 6 8 9 40
2 2 3 4 5 7 7 7 8
relationship.
3 0 0 1 1 54. Strong negative relationship. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
c) 27th Hours
Page 255
d) 27 b) 0
55. a) and e)
e) 18th Pay ($)
d) There is a moderate
f) 7 negative relationship. The
300 more hours exercise per
g) 8 week the less your weight
240
46. a) 25 is.
180
b) 48 mins e) (1, 80) could be considered
120
c) 45 mins an outlier but more likely
d) 5
60 just a naturally light
person.
e) 5 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Hours f) 70 kg
f) 48 mins
7 b) 15 g) 4.0 hours (1 dp)
g) = 0.28 58. a) positive
25 c) $11
Page 250 d) $8.50 b) positive
47. a) 44 students f) Moderate positive c) negative
b) Males 21 mins relationship. d) negative
Females 32.5 mins g) (14, 280) – Could be a e) positive
boss or foreman, f) none
c) Males, their median time
who receives a higher pay
was less. g) likely to be positive
rate.
d) 10 students Page 259
(14, 119) – Could be just
e) 35 mins a school student working 59. a) 5%
f) 34 mins after school or is unskilled. b) Samsung
15 56. a) and b)
g) = 34.1% (1 dp) c) Sharp and Toshiba
44 Cost ($000)
48. a) d) 25%
400
Fuel Consumption e) 40%
9 7 8 3 350
0 2 8 9 6 4 5 4
f) 24
0 6 3 4 5 8 9 300 g) 6
3 6 4 9 3 0 9
7 8 4 6 9 9 4 5 9 250 h) 144˚
Diesel Petrol
i) 36˚
b) 200
Fuel Consumption
9 8 7 3 150
9 8 6 5 4 2 0 4
6 4 3 0 5 8 9 100
3 6 0 3 4 9 9
7 4 4 5 6 8 9 9 9 50
Diesel Petrol
c) Diesel = 4.6 litres/100 km 50 100 150 200 250 300
Size m2
Petrol = 7.4 litres/100 km
d) Diesel, median c) The greater the area in
litres/100 km is less. m2 the higher the cost.
e) Yes, but there may be d) $50 000
additional charges
(road user) when using a
diesel vehicle.

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60. Jake’s iTunes Music 64. a) 36 66. a) 31
b) 2007, 33 b) 23
c) 2009–2010, Increase of 10 5
c) = 0.16 (2 dp)
d) 8 31
Rock e) Dropped from 46 in 2004 d) 14 – <16 secs
Pop to a low of 32 in 2007. 67. a) 80
R&B From 2008 have increased b)
Blues each year to a high of 48 Freq. (f)
in 2010. 25
Sodium content
Country
f) Greater crime rate.
20
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b) 37.5% 65. a) 15

c) Country and R & B. Country 10

9 Overseas Students
d) 5
40
Chinese
e) 0.125
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
German mg
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59
61. a) Queenstown Korean c)
= 0.74 (2 dp)
80
b) 100 Japanese 5
d) = 0.06 (2 dp)
c) Christchurch French 80
d) South Island, because 68. a) 34
Belgian
percentages add to 55% b) Most workers (20) earn
(over half). Chilean between $15 and $20 per
e) 72˚ hour. Very few (3) earn less
f) 75 5 10 15 20 Number than $15. Only 11 people
g) 18˚ earn over $20 per hour.
b) 51
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c) China
69. a)
No H

d) 39 Freq. (f)
Other
Solar
eatin

e) 25
Heights of new students
g

Coal
Country
20
Overseas Students
15
M
Gas
Chinese F 10

M
Electricity German 5
F

M
Wood Korean 0 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 Height (cm)
F

b) 130 – 140 cm
M
Japanese
F

M
French c) 39
F

b) 500
Belgian F d) and e)
M
c) Electricity and wood Chilean Height
(cm)
Frequency
(f)
Midpoint
(x)
x.f

d) Convenient, clean, quick. 100 – < 110 5 105 525

5 10 15 20 Number 110 – < 120 11 115 1265

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130 – < 140 25 135 3375
63. a) Nokia g) China 140 – < 150 22 145 3190

b) 9% h) 58.8% (1 dp)
150 – < 160 11 155 1705
160 – < 170 6 165 990
c) All other small 5
i) = 0.24 (2 dp) TOTAL 13550
manufacturers totalled 21
together. 24 f) 13 550
d) Nokia and Samsung j) = 0.8
30 g) 136 cm (3 sf)
e) Apple and Motorola
f) It totals 100%

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