CAIE S1 2009 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2009
SessionJune
TopicData representation
TypeDraw cumulative frequency graph from frequency table

6 During January the numbers of people entering a store during the first hour after opening were as follows.
Time after opening,
\(x\) minutes
Frequency
Cumulative
frequency
\(0 < x \leqslant 10\)210210
\(10 < x \leqslant 20\)134344
\(20 < x \leqslant 30\)78422
\(30 < x \leqslant 40\)72\(a\)
\(40 < x \leqslant 60\)\(b\)540
  1. Find the values of \(a\) and \(b\).
  2. Draw a cumulative frequency graph to represent this information. Take a scale of 2 cm for 10 minutes on the horizontal axis and 2 cm for 50 people on the vertical axis.
  3. Use your graph to estimate the median time after opening that people entered the store.
  4. Calculate estimates of the mean, \(m\) minutes, and standard deviation, \(s\) minutes, of the time after opening that people entered the store.
  5. Use your graph to estimate the number of people entering the store between ( \(m - \frac { 1 } { 2 } s\) ) and \(\left( m + \frac { 1 } { 2 } s \right)\) minutes after opening.