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Introduction to Statistics

Multiple-choice Questions

Attempt ALL questions. The full marks of this test are 30.

Level 1 4. Suggest a suitable method to collect the

unemployment rates of Hong Kong in the
1. Which of the following is the second past 10 years.
stage of statistics? A. Experiment
A. Organization of data B. Questionnaire
B. Presentation of data C. Data from known publications
C. Collection of data D. Observation
D. Analysis of data
5. Which of the following are continuous
2. Which of the following data can be data?
collected by observation? A. The number of people watching a
A. The number of tourists visiting Hong football match in a stadium
Kong in the past 5 years B. The weights of 3 students
B. The average income of people in a C. The number of cars passing a traffic
city 10 years ago light in 30 minutes
C. The number of people entering a D. The number of traffic accidents
shopping centre in 15 minutes yesterday
D. The annual rainfall of a city in the
past 20 years 6. Which of the following is not nominal
data?
3. Suggest a suitable method to collect the A. The grades of HKCEE Mathematics
data of the travelling expenses of 40 examination
students. B. The gender of 480 students
A. Experiment C. The favourite pets of 50 children
B. Questionnaire D. The fares of 20 routes of public
C. Data from known publications transport
D. Observation

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7. The following data show the number of 10. The following data show the favourite
passengers carried by 25 taxis. colours of a group of children.
3 1 3 4 2 3 3 Red Black White Blue Brown
2 4 1 3 4 5 2 Brown Blue Red White White
3 1 4 5 4 1 2 White Red Blue Blue Green
2 4 1 1 How many children like white the most?
How many taxis carry 2 passengers? A. 4
A. 3 B. 5
B. 4 C. 6
C. 5 D. 7
D. 6
11. The following table shows the numbers
8. The following data show the grades of a of working days of a group of people in
group of people in an aptitude test. this month. What should be put in (a)?

B A B B D C A B Number of days Tally Frequency

D C B D A A C C (a) //// / 6
//// // 7
A C B D B C A C 27 //// / 6
Find the number of people getting an ‘A’. 28 //// //// 9
A. 6 A. 24
B. 5 B. 25
C. 4 C. 26
D. 3 D. 27

9. The following data show the numbers of 12. The following table shows the numbers
rulers that 20 students have. of people in 25 private cars. What should
0 1 3 2 3 1 1 0 be put in (b)?
2 1 1 3 0 1 2 1 Number of people Tally Frequency
4 0 2 1 1 //// 4
2 //// /// 8
Find the number of students having 1 3 //// 5
ruler. 4 (b)
A. 7 5 // 2
B. 8 A. 5
C. 9 B. 6
D. 10 C. 7
D. 8

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13. Kate organizes the numbers of colour 16. Consider organizing the numbers of rainy
pens owned by students into a frequency days in Hong Kong in June in each of the
distribution table. The largest and the past 50 years into a frequency distribution
smallest data are 7 and 2 respectively. table. Which of the following must be
How many rows of data are there in the true?
table? A. The sum of the frequencies is 30.
A. 4 rows B. There are 30 rows in the table.
B. 5 rows C. There are 50 data in the situation.
C. 6 rows D. There are 50 rows in the table.
D. 7 rows
17. The following table shows the numbers
14. The following table shows the numbers of free newspapers taken by 80 MTR
of computers in 100 classrooms of some passengers. Given that 4 passengers did
schools. What should be put in (c)? not take any newspaper. What should be
Number of computers Frequency put in (e)?
(c) 2 Number Frequency
49
33 1 29
3 14 42
4 2 3 (e)
A. 0 A. 5
B. 1 B. 7
C. 2 C. 9
D. 3 D. 11

15. The following table shows the number of 18. The following table shows the favourite
times that 40 students were late to school colours of 40 students.
last week. What should be put in (d)?
Colour Tally Frequency
Number of times Frequency Red 8
0 21 Yellow //// //// //
1 9 Blue
2 (d) Green 10
3 4 How many students like blue the most?
A. 4 A. 8
B. 5 B. 10
C. 6 C. 12
D. 7 D. 14

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19. The following table shows the districts Level 2

that 60 people live in.
District Tally Frequency 21. Kelly groups the marks of 40 students
H.K. Island 11 with 26 marks  30 marks as the first
Kowloon East //// // class, 31 marks  35 marks as the second
Kowloon West //// class, and so on. Find the 5th group.
N.T. East 18 A. 46 marks  50 marks
N.T. West
B. 51 marks  55 marks
Find the number of people who live in C. 56 marks  60 marks
New Territories West. D. 61 marks  65 marks
A. 9
B. 12 22. Jack collected the data of the durations of
C. 16 some flights. The smallest and the largest
D. 19 data are 4 hours 20 minutes and 9 hours
10 minutes. If Jack groups the data with
20. The following table shows the ways that 4 hours  4 hours 59 minutes as the first
100 students use to go to school. class, how many classes are there?
Way Tally Frequency A. 4 classes
MTR 29 B. 6 classes
Bus //// //// //// // C. 8 classes
Minibus //// ///
D. 10 classes
Private car 13
Walking
Others //// / 23. Sandy groups the heights of 40 students
with 135 cm  140 cm as the first class,
Find the number of students who walk to
141 cm  144 cm as the second class, and
school.
so on. If her height is 165 cm, find the
A. 20
class she belongs to.
B. 24
A. The 5th class
C. 27
B. The 6th class
D. 32
C. The 7th class
D. The 8th class

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24. The following table shows the weights (in 26. The following table shows the monthly
kg) of some students. Find the range of salaries (in dollars) of 70 people.
weights to be put in (a). Salary (dollars) Frequency
Weight (kg) Tally Frequency 23
(a) // 2 10 000  14 999 26
//// / 6 15 000  19 999
//// // 7 7
60  64 //// //// / 11 25 000  29 999 3
65  69 //// 4 Find the number of people with monthly
A. 40 kg  44 kg salaries between $15 000 and $24 999.
B. 50 kg  54 kg A. 7
C. 45 kg  49 kg B. 11
D. 50 kg  59 kg C. 18
D. 21
25. The following table shows the marks of
40 students in a test. 27. The following table shows the heights of
Marks Frequency 80 students.
61  68 1 Height (cm) Frequency
6 140  149 5
8 150  159 16
85  92 29
93  100 12
Which of the following descriptions may 180  189 4
not be correct? Find the difference between the numbers of
A. 11 students got 80 marks or below. students in the classes of 160 cm  169 cm
B. Most students got marks between 85 and 170 cm  179 cm.
and 92 inclusively. A. 3
C. More than 10 students got marks B. 4
higher than 90. C. 5
D. No student got less than 60 marks. D. 6

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28. The following table shows the time (in s) 29. The following table shows the weights (in
spent by 80 athletes to run 100 m. kg) of the luggage of a group of tourists.
Time (s) Frequency Find the range of weights to be put in (b).
9.70  9.79 2 Weight (kg) Tally Frequency
8 //// 4
9.90  9.99 (b) //// 5
10.00  10.09 22 //// //// 9
14 20.0  23.9 //// //// /// 13
Which of the following descriptions must 24.0  27.9 //// 4
be correct? A. 10.0 kg  14.9 kg
A. The fastest athlete spent 9.70 s to run B. 10.0 kg  15.9 kg
100 m. C. 12.0 kg  16.9 kg
B. 31 athletes spent 9.90 s or above to D. 12.0 kg  15.9 kg
run 100 m.
C. All of the 80 athletes spent within 30. The following table shows the heights (in
10.20 s to run 100 m. cm) of some seedlings. Find the range of
D. At least half of the athletes spent at heights to be put in (c).
least 10 s to run 100 m. Height (cm) Tally Frequency
5.0  7.4 / 1
(c) /// 3
//// //// 9
12.5  14.9 //// /// 8
15.0  17.4 // 2
A. 7.5 cm  8.4 cm
B. 7.5 cm  8.9 cm
C. 7.5 cm  9.9 cm
D. 7.5 cm  12.4 cm

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