CAIE S1 2022 March — Question 3

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2022
SessionMarch
TopicData representation
TypeDraw histogram then perform calculations

3 At a summer camp an arithmetic test is taken by 250 children. The times taken, to the nearest minute, to complete the test were recorded. The results are summarised in the table.
Time taken, in minutes\(1 - 30\)\(31 - 45\)\(46 - 65\)\(66 - 75\)\(76 - 100\)
Frequency2130688645
  1. Draw a histogram to represent this information.
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  2. State which class interval contains the median.
  3. Given that an estimate of the mean time is 61.05 minutes, state what feature of the distribution accounts for the median and the mean being different.