Edexcel A Level Maths S1 · Statistics 1 January 2008 question paper 6683

A personnel manager wants to find out if a test carried out during an employee’s interview and a skills assessment at the end of basic training is a guide to performance after working for the company for one year. The table below shows the results of the interview test of 10 employees and their performance after one year.

Showing your working clearly, calculate the product moment correlation coefficient between the interview test and the performance after one year.

The product moment correlation coefficient between the skills assessment and the performance after one year is –0.156 to 3 significant figures.

Use your answer to part (a) to comment on whether or not the interview test and skills assessment are a guide to the performance after one year. Give clear reasons for your answers.

Cotinine is a chemical that is made by the body from nicotine which is found in cigarette smoke. A doctor tested the blood of 12 patients, who claimed to smoke a packet of cigarettes a day, for cotinine. The results, in appropriate units, are shown below.

Find the mean and standard deviation of the level of cotinine in a patient’s blood.

Find the median, upper and lower quartiles of these data.

A doctor suspects that some of his patients have been smoking more than a packet of cigarettes per day. He decides to use Q₃+1.5(Q₃–Q₁) to determine if any of the cotinine results are far enough away from the upper quartile to be outliers.

Identify which patient(s) may have been smoking more than a packet of cigarettes a day. Show your working clearly.

Research suggests that cotinine levels in the blood form a skewed distribution.

Evaluate this measure and describe the skewness of these data.

The histogram in Figure 1 shows the time taken, to the nearest minute, for 140 runners to complete a fun run.

Use the histogram to calculate the number of runners who took between 78.5 and 90.5 minutes to complete the fun run.

A second hand car dealer has 10 cars for sale. She decides to investigate the link between the age of the cars, x years, and the mileage, y thousand miles. The data collected from the cars are shown in the table below.

Find the equation of the least squares regression line in the form y = a + bx. Give the values of a and b to 2 decimal places.

Give a practical interpretation of the slope b.

Using your answer to part (b), find the mileage predicted by the regression line for a 5 year old car.

The following shows the results of a wine tasting survey of 100 people. 96 like wine A, 93 like wine B, 96 like wine C, 92 like A and B, 91 like B and C, 93 like A and C, 90 like all three wines.

Draw a Venn Diagram to represent these data.

Find the probability that a randomly selected person from the survey likes

none of the three wines,

wine A but not wine B,

any wine in the survey except wine C,

exactly two of the three kinds of wine.

Given that a person from the survey likes wine A,

find the probability that the person likes wine C.

The weights of bags of popcorn are normally distributed with mean of 200 g and 60% of all bags weighing between 190 g and 210 g.

Write down the median weight of the bags of popcorn.

Find the standard deviation of the weights of the bags of popcorn.

A shopkeeper finds that customers will complain if their bag of popcorn weighs less than 180 g.

Find the probability that a customer will complain.

Tetrahedral dice have four faces. Two fair tetrahedral dice, one red and one blue, have faces numbered 0, 1, 2, and 3 respectively. The dice are rolled and the numbers face down on the two dice are recorded. The random variable R is the score on the red die and the random variable B is the score on the blue die.

Find P(R =3 and B =0).

The random variable T is R multiplied by B.

Complete the diagram below to represent the sample space that shows all the possible values of T.

The table below represents the probability distribution of the random variable T.

Find the values of a, b, c and d.

Find the values of

E(T),

Var(T).