Edexcel S1 2016 June — Question 3

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicBivariate data
TypeCalculate r from summary statistics

3. Before going on holiday to Seapron, Tania records the weekly rainfall ( \(x \mathrm {~mm}\) ) at Seapron for 8 weeks during the summer. Her results are summarised as $$\sum x = 86.8 \quad \sum x ^ { 2 } = 985.88$$
  1. Find the standard deviation, \(\sigma _ { x }\), for these data.
    (3) Tania also records the number of hours of sunshine ( \(y\) hours) per week at Seapron for these 8 weeks and obtains the following $$\bar { y } = 58 \quad \sigma _ { y } = 9.461 \text { (correct to } 4 \text { significant figures) } \quad \sum x y = 4900.5$$
  2. Show that \(\mathrm { S } _ { y y } = 716\) (correct to 3 significant figures)
  3. Find \(\mathrm { S } _ { x y }\)
  4. Calculate the product moment correlation coefficient, \(r\), for these data. During Tania's week-long holiday at Seapron there are 14 mm of rain and 70 hours of sunshine.
  5. State, giving a reason, what the effect of adding this information to the above data would be on the value of the product moment correlation coefficient.