Edexcel S1 2007 June — Question 5

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2007
SessionJune
TopicData representation
TypeComplete frequency table from histogram only

5. \begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{045e10d2-1766-4399-aa0a-5619dd0cce0f-10_726_1509_255_278} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Figure 2}
\end{figure} Figure 2 shows a histogram for the variable \(t\) which represents the time taken, in minutes, by a group of people to swim 500 m .
  1. Complete the frequency table for \(t\).
    \(t\)\(5 - 10\)\(10 - 14\)\(14 - 18\)\(18 - 25\)\(25 - 40\)
    Frequency101624
  2. Estimate the number of people who took longer than 20 minutes to swim 500 m .
  3. Find an estimate of the mean time taken.
  4. Find an estimate for the standard deviation of \(t\).
  5. Find the median and quartiles for \(t\). One measure of skewness is found using \(\frac { 3 ( \text { mean } - \text { median } ) } { \text { standard deviation } }\).
  6. Evaluate this measure and describe the skewness of these data.