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AS and A Level
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Earn 100

A shop has in its stock 80 rectangular celebrity posters. All of these posters have a width to height ratio of 1:2, and their mean perimeter is 231.8 cm. Given that the sum of the squares of the widths is 200120 cm2, find the standard deviation of the widths of the posters.

Important Questions on Measures of Variation

MEDIUM
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

Find the range and the interquartile range of the following sets of data.

5, 8,13,17,22,25,30

MEDIUM
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

Find the range and the interquartile range of the following sets of data 

7,13,21,2,37,28,17,11,2

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AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

Find the range and the interquartile range of the following sets of data.

42, 47, 39, 51, 73, 18, 83, 29, 41, 64

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

Find the range and the interquartile range of the following sets of data.

113, 97, 36, 81, 49, 41, 20, 66, 28, 32, 17, 107

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AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

At a village fair, visitors were asked to guess how many sweets are in a glass jar. The best six guesses were 180, 211, 230, 199, 214 and 166.

Show that the mean of these guesses is 200, and use SD=Σ(x-x¯)2n to calculate the standard deviation.

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AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

At a village fair, visitors were asked to guess how many sweets are in a glass jar. The best six guesses were 180, 211, 230, 199, 214 and 166.

The jar actually contained 202 sweets. Without further calculation, write down the mean and the standard deviation of the errors made by these six visitors. Explain why no further calculations are required to do this.

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AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

The number of women in senior management positions at a number of companies was investigated. The number of women at each of the 25 service companies and at each of the 16 industrial companies are denoted by ws and w1, respectively. The findings are summarised by the totals:
Σws-52=28,Σws-5=15,Σw1-32=12 and Σw1-3=-4

Show that there are, on average, more than twice as many women in senior management positions at the service companies than at the industrial companies.

EASY
AS and A Level
IMPORTANT

The number of women in senior management positions at a number of companies was investigated. The number of women at each of the 25 service companies and at each of the 16 industrial companies are denoted by ws and w1, respectively. The findings are summarised by the totals:
Σws-52=28,Σws-5=15,Σw1-32=12 and Σw1-3=-4

Show that Σws2Σws2 and that Σw12ΣwI2.