Edexcel Paper 3 2024 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModulePaper 3 (Paper 3)
Year2024
SessionJune
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeEvaluate claims about large data set

  1. Ming is studying the large data set for Perth in 2015
He intended to use all the data available to find summary statistics for the Daily Mean Air Temperature, \(x { } ^ { \circ } \mathrm { C }\).
Unfortunately, Ming selected an incorrect variable on the spreadsheet.
This incorrect variable gave a mean of 5.3 and a standard deviation of 12.4
  1. Using your knowledge of the large data set, suggest which variable Ming selected. The correct values for the Daily Mean Air Temperature are summarised as $$n = 184 \quad \sum x = 2801.2 \quad \sum x ^ { 2 } = 44695.4$$
  2. Calculate the mean and standard deviation for these data. One of the months from the large data set for Perth in 2015 has
    • mean \(\bar { X } = 19.4\)
    • standard deviation \(\sigma _ { x } = 2.83\)
      for Daily Mean Air Temperature.
    • Suggest, giving a reason, a month these data may have come from.