Test (40 Marks) : Statistics and Probability

Chapter 8: Statistics and probability
Test (40 marks)

Name: ___________________________________
Part A – Multiple-choice questions (10 marks)
1 Use the following graph, which shows the outside temperature over a 24-hour
period, to estimate the temperature at 3 a.m.
A 5 B 7 C 10
D 12 E 15
2 Average daily temperatures are shown in this stem-and-leaf plot for some different
countries.
Stem Leaf
0 0 8
1 1 4 7 9
2 0 3 6
3 2 5
How many countries’ temperatures are represented?
A 9 B 10 C 11
D 12 E 13
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3 Vincent asked his friends what their favourite school subject is, and created the
following divided bar graph from the information.
If Vincent surveyed 20 friends, how many of them like Maths best?
A 3 B 4 C 5
D 6 E 8
4 Which of the following spinners corresponds to the statement,

‘Blue and green are equally likely, but red and green are not equally likely’?
A B C
D E
5 A bag of marbles contains 3 blue marbles, 2 green marbles and 5 red marbles. A
marble is chosen at random. The probability that the marble selected is blue is:
A 0.2 B 0.3 C 0.4
D 0.5 E 0.6

6 A survey is conducted on people’s weekly television viewing habits revealed the
following results.
Number of hours per week 0–5 5–10 10–20 20–30 30+

Number of people 8 7 3 1 1
What is the probability that a randomly selected participant watches

between 5 and 20 hours of television per week?
A 0.10 B 0.15 C 0.35
D 0.50 E 0.73
7 One extra number is added to the data set 4, 5, 7, 8, and this causes the mean to
change to 9. What is the number?
A 9 B 12 C 15
D 18 E 21
Questions 8 – 10 refer to the following dot plot of Year 7B’s favourite after-school
activities.
8 How many students participated in the survey?
A 20 B 21 C 22
D 23 E 24

9 How many students chose ‘internet’ as their favourite activity?
A 5 B 6 C 7
D 8 E 9
10 What is the most popular after-school activity for this group of students?
A video games B sport C television
D internet E impossible to tell

Part B – Short-answer questions (17 marks)
1 Consider the following set of data:
24, 19, 23, 15, 27, 23, 16
a Find the range of the values. ____________________________________________
b Find the mode of this set of data. ____________________________________________
c Find the mean of this set of data. ____________________________________________
d Find the median of this set of data. ____________________________________________
e If the data value 18 is added, what will be the new median? ____________
(5  1 = 5 marks)
2 This travel graph shows the distance travelled by a truck over a 6-hour period.
a How far did the truck travel in the first two hours?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
b How far did the truck travel in total?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
c What is happening in the third hour?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
d When is the truck travelling the fastest?
____________________________________________________________________________________________
(4  1 = 4 marks)

3 A fair 8-sided die is rolled.
a List the sample space.
________________________________________________________________________________________
b Find the probability of rolling a 4, giving your answer as a fraction.
________________________________________________________________________________________
c Find the probability of rolling a prime number, giving your answer as a

percentage.
________________________________________________________________________________________
d Find the probability of rolling a number less than 4, giving your answer as
a decimal.
________________________________________________________________________________________
(4  1 = 4 marks)
4 When playing with a spinner with the numbers 1 to 3 on it, the following numbers
come up:
2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1
a What is the experimental probability of getting a 1?
________________________________________________________________________________________
b Based on this experiment, how many times would you expect to get a 1 if you
spin 100 times?
________________________________________________________________________________________
c What is the experimental probability of getting a 1 or 2?
________________________________________________________________________________________
d Based on this experiment, what percentage of times would you expect to get
a 1 or 2 if you spin 147 times?
________________________________________________________________________________________

(4  1 = 4 marks)
Part C – Extended-response questions (13 marks)
1 Consider the following set of data:
19, 24, 16, 9, 20, 33, 12, 28, 67, 35, 16, 11, 21
a Represent this set of data as a stem-and-leaf plot.
Stem Leaf
b What is the range? ____________________________________________________
c What is the median? ____________________________________________________
d Are there any outliers? ____________________________________________________
(2 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5 marks)
2 The colour of the cars in a car park is recorded.
Colour Black Grey White Red Blue

Number of cars 8 12 9 3 4
a On the axes provided, draw a column graph to represent this data.

b Complete the following table, and hence represent this data as a pie chart.
Colour Proportion Sector size ()

Black
Grey
White
Red
Blue
c What is the probability that a randomly chosen car is grey?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
d What is the probability that a randomly chosen car is blue?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
e Based on this data, how many blue cars would you expect to see in a car park
with 1800 cars?
_____________________________________________________________________________________
(2 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 8 marks)

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Chapter 8: Statistics and probability

Test (40 marks)

Part A – Multiple-choice questions (10 marks)

How many countries’ temperatures are represented?

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If Vincent surveyed 20 friends, how many of them like Maths best?

4 Which of the following spinners corresponds to the statement,

A 0.2 B 0.3 C 0.4

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Number of hours per week 0–5 5–10 10–20 20–30 30+

What is the probability that a randomly selected participant watches

A 0.10 B 0.15 C 0.35

8 How many students participated in the survey?

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A video games B sport C television

D internet E impossible to tell

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1 Consider the following set of data:

24, 19, 23, 15, 27, 23, 16

a Find the range of the values. ____________________________________________

b Find the mode of this set of data. ____________________________________________

c Find the mean of this set of data. ____________________________________________

d Find the median of this set of data. ____________________________________________

b How far did the truck travel in total?

c What is happening in the third hour?

d When is the truck travelling the fastest?

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a List the sample space.

b Find the probability of rolling a 4, giving your answer as a fraction.

c Find the probability of rolling a prime number, giving your answer as a

a What is the experimental probability of getting a 1?

c What is the experimental probability of getting a 1 or 2?

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Part C – Extended-response questions (13 marks)

1 Consider the following set of data:

a Represent this set of data as a stem-and-leaf plot.

b What is the range? ____________________________________________________

c What is the median? ____________________________________________________

d Are there any outliers? ____________________________________________________

2 The colour of the cars in a car park is recorded.

Colour Black Grey White Red Blue

a On the axes provided, draw a column graph to represent this data.

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Colour Proportion Sector size ()

c What is the probability that a randomly chosen car is grey?

d What is the probability that a randomly chosen car is blue?

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