OCR MEI Paper 2 2018 June — Question 9

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModulePaper 2 (Paper 2)
Year2018
SessionJune
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeFind median and quartiles from stem-and-leaf diagram

9 At the end of each school term at North End College all the science classes in year 10 are given a test. The marks out of 100 achieved by members of set 1 are shown in Fig. 9. \begin{table}[h]
35
409
5236
601356
701256899
83466889
955567
\captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Fig. 9}
\end{table} Key \(5 \quad\) 2 represents a mark of 52
  1. Describe the shape of the distribution.
  2. The teacher for set 1 claimed that a typical student in his class achieved a mark of 95. How did he justify this statement?
  3. Another teacher said that the average mark in set 1 is 76 . How did she justify this statement? Benson's mark in the test is 35 . If the mark achieved by any student is an outlier in the lower tail of the distribution, the student is moved down to set 2 .
  4. Determine whether Benson is moved down to set 2 .