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ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS

SPM 2008

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TOPIC 08

Statistics

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1 A set of positive integers consists of 2, 5, and m. The variance for this set is 14.
Find the value of m. [3 marks]

Answer: _____________________
2 The mean of four numbers is m. The sum of the squares of the numbers is 64 and
the standard deviation is 2k. Express m in terms of k. [3 marks]

Answer: ____________________

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3 A set of data X is given by x = 128 and x = 5120. The mean of X is 16. Find
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a) the total number of observed values in set X


b) the standard deviation.

[4 marks ]

Answer: __________________

4 A set of data consist of five numbers. The sum of the numbers is 60 and the sum of
the squares of the numbers is 800.
(a) the mean
(b) the standard deviation

[3marks]

Answer :(a) ______________________


(b)______________________

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5 The following table shows the scores of 30 students in a monthly test containing
25 questions.
Scores 48 9 13 14 18 19 23
Frequency 6 7 11 6

Determine
(a) the mean score
(b) the median score [4 marks]
(a) (b)

Answer (a): ______________________


(b) ______________________
6 The mean of three numbers is 11. If another two numbers p and q are added to
the set of numbers, its new mean is 14. Find the mean of p and q.
[ 3marks]

Answer: _______________________

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7 Table 1 shows the frequency distribution of the scores of a group of pupils in a


game.
Score Number of pupils
10 19 1
20 29 2
30 39 8
40 49 12
50 59 k
60 - 69 1

(a) It is given that the median score of the distribution is 42. Calculate
the value of k. [3marks]

(b) Use the graph paper to answer this question.


Using a scale of 2 cm to 10 scores on the horizontal axis and 2 cm to
2 pupils on the vertical axis, draw a histogram to represent the
frequency distribution of the scores.
Find the mode score. [4marks]

(c) What is the mode score if the score of each pupil increased by 5?
[1 mark]

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8 Diagram below is a histogram which represents the distribution of the marks


obtained by 40 pupils in a test.

14

9
7
6

0.5 10.5 20.5 30.5 40.5 50.5

(a ) Without using an ogive, calculate the median mark. [3marks]

(b) Calculate the standard deviation of the distribution. [4marks]

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9 A set of data consist of 10 numbers. The sum of the numbers is 150 and the sum
of the square of the numbers is 2 472.
(a) Find the mean and variance of the 10 numbers. [3 marks]

(b) Another number is added to the set data and the mean is increased by 1.
Find
(i) the value of this number,

(ii) the standard deviation of the set of eleven numbers


[4 marks]

10 A set of examination marks x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 , x5 , x6 , has a mean of 5 and a standard


deviation of 1.5
(a) find
( i) the sum of the marks, x ,
(ii) the sum of the squares of the marks, x 2
[3 marks]

(b) Each mark is multiplied by 2 and then 3 is added to it.


Find, for the new set of marks,
(i) mean
(ii) the variance.
[4 marks]

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ANSWER:
1 m =11

2 m = 16 4k2

3 N = 8, 2 = 384, = 19.596

4 x = 5, = 8
5 x = 13.83 m=14.4
6 x p q = 18.5
7 (a) k = 4 (b) mode = 43 (c) mode score = 48

8 (a) median = 24.07


(b) standard deviation = 11.74

9 (a) mean = 15, variance =22.2


(b) k =26, standard deviation =5.494

10 (a) x 30 , x 2 163.5
(b) mean =13 , variance = 9

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