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Advanced Subsidiary/Advanced GCE

General Certificate of Education

Subject STATISTICS

Paper No. Mock S1

Question
number
1.

Scheme

Marks

Let J represent the weight of a Jar J N(260.00, 5.452)

266 260

P( J < 266) = P Z <

5.45

M1 A1

= P(Z < 1.10)

A1

= 0.8643
(NB: calculator gives 0.86453: accept 0.864 0.865)
Let C represent weight of coffee in a Jar C N(101.8, 0.722)
100 101.8

P(C < 100) = P Z <

0.72

= P(Z < 2.50)

M1 A1

A1

= 0.0062
P(J < 266 & C < 100) = 0.8643 0.0062
= 0.0054

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number
2. (a)
(b)

Scheme

Marks
B1 (1)

Mode = 23
For Q 1 :

n
= 10.5 11th observation Q 1 = 17
4

For Q 2 :

n
= 21 =
2

For Q 3 :

3n
= 31.5 32nd observation Q 3 = 31
4

1
2

B1

(21st & 22nd) observations Q 2 =

23 + 24
= 23.5 M1 A1
2

B1

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(c)

10

20

30

40

50

Box plot

M1

Scale & label

M1

Q1, Q2, Q3

A1

11, 43

A1 (4)

Number of Daisies

(d)

(e)

From box plot or

Q 2 Q 1 = 23.5 17 = 6.5
Q 3 Q 2 = 31 23.5 = 7.5

(slight) positive skew

Back-to-back stem and leaf diagram

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Question
number
3. (a)

Scheme
y=

467
200

B1

(can be implied)

x = 2.5 y + 755.0

M1

467
= 2.5
+ 755.0
200
= 749.1625
Sy =

A1
(accept awrt 749)

9179 467

200 200

M1 A1
A1

S x = 2.5 6.35946
= 15.89865
Standard deviation <

A1

= 6.35946

(b)

Marks

M1
(accept awrt 15.9)

2
3

A1

(interquartile range)

B1

Suggest using standard deviation since it shows less variation in the

lifetimes

B1

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number
4. (a)

Scheme

Marks

P(correct at third attempt) = 0.4 0.4 0.6

M1
A1

= 0.096
(b)

P(A = a) 0.6
(c)

0.24

0.096

0.064

B1

All P(A = a) correct

B1

(accept awrt 0.974)

A1

E(A) = a P(A = a) = (1 0.6) + . . . + (4 0.064)

M1

= 1.624

A1

(accept awrt 1.62)

E(A2) = a2 P(A = a) = (12 0.6) + . . . + (42 0.064)

M1

= 3.448

A1

(2)

M1

Var (A) = 3.448 (1.624)2

= 0.810624

(2)

M1

P(correct number) = 1 (0.4)4

= 0.9744

(d)

a = 1, 2, 3, 4

(2)

(accept awrt 0.811)

A1

(6)

F(1 + E(A)) = P(A 1 + E(A))

= P(A 2.624)
= 0.84

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number

Scheme

5. (a)

Marks

Sauna
0.35
Swim

Tree with correct

number of branches

M1

0.2, 0.3, 0.5

A1

All correct

A1

0.65
0.2

No Sauna

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Sauna
0.2
0.3
Run
0.8
No Sauna
Sauna
0.5

0.45
Cycle
0.55
No Sauna

(b)
P(used sauna) = (0.2 0.35) + (0.3 0.2) + (0.5 0.45)

A1

= 0.355
(c)
P(swim | sauna used) =

M1 A1
(3)

P(swim & sauna)

P(sauna)
0.2 0.35
0.355

M1 A1

= 0.19718

(accept awrt 0.197)

A1

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(d)
P(swim | sauna not used) =

P(sauna not used swim) P(swim)

M1

P(sauna not used)

P(sauna not used | swim) = 1 0.35 = 0.65

B1

P(sauna not used)

M1 A1 f.t.

= 1 0.355 = 0.645

P(swim | sauna not used) =

0.65 0.2
0.645

= 0.20155

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number

Scheme

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6. (a)
y
Scales & labels B1
Points B2, 1, 0 (3)

90

80

Temp
C

70

60

50

15

25

35

45

55

Speed (mph)

(b)
(c)

Points lie reasonably close to a straight line

B1

b=

11780
8 20615 260 589
=
= 1.40238
2
8400
8 9500 (260)

a=

589
260
(1.40238)
= 28.0476175 (accept awrt 28.0)
8
8

(accept awrt 1.40)

(1)

M1 A1

M1 A1 (4)

y = 28.0 + 1.40 x

(d)

a surrounding air temperature when tyre is stationary

B1

b for every extra mph, temperature rises by 1.40 C

B1

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(f )

y = 28.0 + 1.40 50 = 98

B1

Regression line is only a line of best fit and does not necessarily pass
through all points

B1

12 mph reasonable to use line; 12 is just below lowest x-value

B1; B1

85 mph not reasonable to use line; 85 is well outside range of values

B1; B1 (4)

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