Maths Year 1 Assignment 11

Due Date: Friday 3rd March 2023

NAME…………………………………… CLASS……………

Instructions to Students
All questions must be attempted – get help from one of the Maths team if
you encounter any problems.
You should present your solutions on 5mm squared paper and submit
them with a copy of this question paper.
All work is to be handed in to your teacher on or before the due date
above – work handed in late may NOT be marked.

Teacher’s Mark: Grade:

This assignment is checking that you can……

• Draw stem and leaf diagrams

• Calculate Quartiles from a stem and leaf diagram

• Identify outliers using a given formula

• Draw box plots including outliers if necessary

• Draw histograms including dealing with rounded data

• Comment on the skewness of distributions

Comments or Actions for Improvement:

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 Maths Year 1 Assignment 11

1. The 19 employees of a company take an aptitude test. The scores out of 40 are illustrated in the stem and leaf
diagram below.

2|6 means a score of 26

0 7 (1)
1 88 (2)
2 4468 (4)
3 2333459 (7)
4 00000 (5)
Find

(a) the median score,

(1)
(b) the interquartile range.
(3)
The company director decides that any employees whose scores are so low that they are outliers will undergo
retraining.

An outlier is an observation whose value is less than the lower quartile minus 1.0 times the interquartile range.

(c) Explain why there is only one employee who will undergo retraining.
(2)
(d) Draw a box plot to illustrate the employees’ scores.
(3)
(Total 9 marks)

2. The number of caravans on Seaview caravan site on each night in August last year is summarised in the
following stem and leaf diagram.

Caravans 1|0 means 10 Totals

1 0 5 (2)
2 1 2 4 8 (4)
3 0 3 3 3 4 7 8 8 (8)
4 1 1 3 5 8 8 8 9 9 (9)
5 2 3 6 6 7 (5)
6 2 3 4 (3)

(a) Find the three quartiles of these data.

(3)
During the same month, the least number of caravans on Northcliffe caravan site was 31. The maximum number
of caravans that month was 72. The three quartiles for this site were 38, 45 and 52 respectively.

(b) On graph paper and using the same scale, draw box plots to represent the data for both caravan sites. You
may assume that there are no outliers.
(6)
(c) Compare and contrast these two box plots.
(3)
(d) Give an interpretation to the upper quartiles of these two distributions.
(2)
(Total 14 marks)

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3. The variable x was measured to the nearest whole number. Forty observations are given in the table below.

x 10 – 15 16 – 18 19 –
Frequency 15 9 16

A histogram was drawn and the bar representing the 10 – 15 class has a width of 2 cm and a height of 5 cm. For
the 16 – 18 class find

(a) the width,

(1)
(b) the height
(2)
of the bar representing this class.
(Total 3 marks)

4. The histogram below shows the time taken, to the nearest minute, for 140 runners to complete a fun run.

Frequency
density

60.5 62.5 64.5 66.5 68.5 70.5 72.5 74.5 76.5 78.5 80.5 82.5 84.5 86.5 88.5 90.5 time
Use the histogram to calculate the number of runners who took between 78.5 and 90.5 minutes to complete the
fun run.
(Total 5 marks)

5. A teacher recorded, to the nearest hour, the time spent watching television during a particular week by each
child in a random sample. The times were summarised in a grouped frequency table and represented by a
histogram.

One of the classes in the grouped frequency distribution was 20–29 and its associated frequency was 9. On the
histogram the height of the rectangle representing that class was 3.6 cm and the width was 2 cm.

(a) Give a reason to support the use of a histogram to represent these data.
(1)
(b) Write down the underlying feature associated with each of the bars in a histogram.
(1)
(c) Show that on this histogram each child was represented by 0.8 cm2.
(3)
The total area under the histogram was 24 cm2.

(d) Find the total number of children in the group.

(2)
(Total 7 marks)

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6. A college organised a ‘fun run’. The times, to the nearest minute, of a random sample of 100 students who took
part are summarised in the table below.

Time Number of students

40–44 10

45–47 15

48 23

49–51 21

52–55 16

56–60 15

(a) Give a reason to support the use of a histogram to represent these data.
(1)
(b) Write down the upper class boundary and the lower class boundary of the class 40–44.
(1)
(c) Draw a histogram to represent these data.
(4)
(Total 6 marks)

7. The total amount of time a secretary spent on the telephone in a working day was recorded to the nearest minute.
The data collected over 40 days are summarised in the table below.

Time (mins) 90–139 140–149 150–159 160–169 170–179 180–229

No. of days 8 10 10 4 4 4

Draw a histogram to illustrate these data.

(Total 4 marks)
8. (a) Describe the main features and uses of a box plot.
(3)
Children from school A and B took part in a fun run for charity. The times to the nearest minute, taken by the
children from school A are summarised in the figure below.

School A

10 20 30 40 50 60
Time (minutes)

(b) (i) Write down the time by which 75% of the children in school A had completed the run.

(ii) State the name given to this value.

(2)
(c) Explain what you understand by the two crosses ( ) on the figure above.
(2)
For school B the least time taken by any of the children was 25 minutes and the longest time was 55 minutes.
The three quartiles were 30, 37 and 50 respectively.

(d) Draw a box plot to represent the data from school B.

(4)
(e) Compare and contrast these two box plots.
(4)
(Total 15 marks)

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9. The box plot shown below shows a summary of the weights of the luggage, in kg, for each musician in an
orchestra on an overseas tour.

20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
Weight (kg)
The airline’s recommended weight limit for each musician’s luggage was 45 kg.
Given that none of the musicians’ luggage weighed exactly 45 kg,

(a) state the proportion of the musicians whose luggage was below the recommended weight limit.
(1)
A quarter of the musicians had to pay a charge for taking heavy luggage.

(b) State the smallest weight for which the charge was made.
(1)
(c) Explain what you understand by the + on the box plot in the diagram above, and suggest an instrument
that the owner of this luggage might play.
(2)
(d) Describe the skewness of this distribution. Give a reason for your answer.
(2)
(Total 6 marks)

10. The number of bags of potato crisps sold per day in a bar was recorded over a two-week period. The results are
shown below.

20, 15, 10, 30, 33, 40, 5, 11, 13, 20, 25, 42, 31, 17

(a) Calculate the mean of these data.

(2)
(b) Draw a stem and leaf diagram to represent these data.
(3)
(c) Find the median and the quartiles of these data.
(3)

An outlier is an observation that falls either 1.5 × (interquartile range) above the upper quartile

or 1.5 × (interquartile range) below the lower quartile.

(d) Determine whether or not any items of data are outliers.

(3)
(e) Draw a box plot to represent these data. Show your scale clearly.
(3)
(f) Comment on the skewness of the distribution of bags of crisps sold per day. Justify your answer.
(2)
(Total 16 marks)
11. (a) Explain what you understand by a census.
(1)
Each cooker produced at GT Engineering is stamped with a unique serial number. GT Engineering produces
cookers in batches of 2000. Before selling them, they test a random sample of 5 to see what electric current
overload they will take before breaking down.

(b) Give one reason, other than to save time and cost, why a sample is taken rather than a census.
(1)
(c) Suggest a suitable sampling frame from which to obtain this sample.
(1)
(d) Identify the sampling units.
(1)
(Total 4 marks)
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