Chapter 8 Presenting and interpreting data 1
Chapter 8 Presenting and interpreting data 1: Topic review
1) The two-way table shows some information about the age of some students and how
they travel to school.
Walk Bike Car Bus Total
11–14 years old 8 25 10 80
15–18 years old 23 7 7
Total 60 15 32 140
a) Complete the two-way table.
[2]
b) Write down the number of students aged 11–14 years who travel to school
by car.
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2) The dual bar chart shows the eye colour of a random sample of adults.
a) How many adults in the sample have brown eyes?
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b) Compare the number of males in the sample with green eyes with the number of
females with green eyes.
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Some information about the eye colour and gender of a sample of children is shown
in the Venn diagram.
c) Write down the number of male children in the sample who do not have brown
eyes.
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3) Sweets are sold in small packets and large packets.
The sweets are either strawberry flavour or lemon flavour.
The compound bar chart shows the number of sweets of each flavour in a small
packet.
A large packet contains 6 more sweets in total than a small packet and contains
twice the number of strawberry sweets as a small packet.
Complete the compound bar chart by showing the number of sweets of each flavour
for a large packet. [3]
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4) There are 3600 trees in a forest.
Kim takes a random sample of 90 trees and measures their heights.
Kim’s results are shown in the frequency diagram.
a) Kim says that one fifth of the trees in her sample have a height between 18 m
and 24 m. Is Kim correct?
Explain your answer.
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b) Estimate the number of trees in the whole forest that have a height of less than
6 metres.
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Chapter 8 Presenting and interpreting data 1: Topic review mark scheme
Question Answer Mark Part marks
1(a) 2 Award 1 mark for 2 or 3 numbers filled
37 8 25 10 80
in correctly.
23 7 7 23 60
60 15 32 33 140
1(b) 25 1
2(a) 35 2 Award 1 mark for sight of 16 or 19.
2(b) More males (in the sample) have green eyes 1 Accept equivalent statements.
(than females) Accept statements like ‘5 more males
have green eyes than females’.
Do not accept statements that just
state the number of males and
females with green eyes unless those
numbers are compared.
2(c) 8 1
3 3 Award 1 mark for a bar of height 18.
Aware 1 mark for 8 strawberry sweets
shown.
Award 1 mark for ‘Large’ on the
horizontal axis, the bar is 2 squares
wide and the shading is correct.
4(a) TWM Kim is correct and a correct explanation 2 Award 1 mark for sight of 18.
given, for example
• Frequency is 18 and 90 ÷ 18 = 5
ଵ଼ ଵ
• ଽ
simplifies to and the frequency is 18
ହ
4(b) TWM 600 2 ଵହ ଵ
Award 1 mark for sight of or
ଽ
1 mark is implied by a correct
calculation, for example (3600 ÷ 90) ×
15
TOTAL = 14 marks
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