Chapter 8: Statistics and probability

Test (40 marks)

Name: ___________________________________

Part A – Multiple-choice questions (10 marks)

1 The following graph shows the outside temperature over a 24-hour period. Use the
graph to estimate the temperature at 3 am.

A 5 B 7 C 10

D 12 E 15

2 Average daily temperatures for some different countries are shown in this stem-and-
leaf plot.

stem leaf
0 0 8
1 1 4 7 9
2 0 3 6
3 2 5

How many countries have had the average daily temperatures represented?

A 9 B 10 C 11

D 12 E 13

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3 A spinner is found to land on red of the time. If it is spun 100 times, how many
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times would you expect it to land on red?

A 20 B 16 C 400
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D 40 E 25

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

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6 A survey 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 The median of the data set 7, 10, 14, 16, 18, 23 is:

A 12 B 13 C 16

D 14 E 15

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

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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

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Part B – Short-answer questions (16 marks)

1 Consider the following set of data: 24, 19, 23, 15, 27, 23, 16.

a Write the numbers from smallest to largest.

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b Find the range of the values. ___________________________________

c Find the mode of this set of data. ___________________________________

d Find the mean of this set of data. ___________________________________

e Find the median of this set of data. ___________________________________

(1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 6 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?

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b How far did the truck travel in total?

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c What is happening in the third hour?

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d When is the truck travelling the fastest?

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(4  1 = 4 marks)

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3 A fair 8-sided die is rolled.

a List the sample space.

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

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c Find the probability of rolling a 1 or a 2, giving your answer as a decimal.

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

percentage.

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(1 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 6 marks)

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Part C – Extended-response questions (14 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? __________________________________________

(3 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 7 marks)

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

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

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d Based on this data, how many blue cars would you expect to see in a car park
with 1800 cars?

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(3 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 7 marks)

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