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Test 2.3a - Measures of Location and Spread

The document is a test on measures of location and spread, focusing on central tendency, variance, and standard deviation. It includes problems related to shoe sizes, temperature data, and worm lengths, requiring calculations of mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation. The test consists of multiple questions that involve data interpretation and statistical analysis, totaling 36 marks.

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Test 2.3a - Measures of Location and Spread

The document is a test on measures of location and spread, focusing on central tendency, variance, and standard deviation. It includes problems related to shoe sizes, temperature data, and worm lengths, requiring calculations of mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation. The test consists of multiple questions that involve data interpretation and statistical analysis, totaling 36 marks.

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Measures of Location and Spread – Test A (55 mins) Fundamentals P Expert

Challenge
Subtopics: Measures of central tendency, other measures of location, measures of spread, variance and standard deviation, coding
In this test you should give your answers to 3 s.f. where appropriate

1. The following frequency table shows the shoe sizes of the Year 1 students at a school:
Shoe Size Frequency
6 3
7 6
8 10
9 15
10 9
11 6
12 1
a) Calculate the mean, median, mode and range of the shoe sizes of these children. [5]
Two new students join Year 1. Their shoe sizes are 7 and 9.
b) Do the mean and median of the shoe sizes increase, decrease or stay the same when these
students’ data is added? Justify your answers. [3]

2. Peter takes some data from the large data set showing the daily mean temperatures, t °C, in Hurn for
the first 10 days in September 1987. He codes the data using c = 10 (t − 10 ) and then calculates the
following statistics: ∑ c = 591 and ∑ c2 = 39751
a) Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the coded data. [4]
b) Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the temperature in Hurn for the first 10 days of
September 1987. [3]

3. Quinn finds 40 worms in his garden and measures their lengths, x, in centimetres. He records this
data in the following grouped frequency table:
Length of Worm, x cm Frequency
5≤ x<7 3
7≤ x<8 8
8≤ x<9 10
9 ≤ x < 10 14
10 ≤ x ≤ 12 5
a) What is the modal class for the lengths of the worms Quinn found in his garden? [1]
b) Use interpolation to estimate the median and interquartile range of the lengths of the worms. [8]
c) Estimate the mean length of the worms. [3]
d) Estimate the standard deviation of the lengths of the worms. [3]
e) Why is it not possible to determine the exact mean and standard deviation of the lengths of the
worms from this data? [1]

4. The daily mean temperatures, to the nearest degree Celsius, for each day in June 1987 in Leeming,
are recorded in the grouped frequency table below:
Daily Mean Temperature (°C) 9 10 11 – 12 13 14 – 15 16 – 19
Frequency 3 4 11 7 3 2

Using interpolation, estimate the median daily mean temperature in Leeming in June 1987. [5]

TOTAL 36 MARKS
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