CAIE S1 2011 June — Question 6

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2011
SessionJune
TopicData representation
TypeDraw cumulative frequency graph from cumulative frequency table

6 There are 5000 schools in a certain country. The cumulative frequency table shows the number of pupils in a school and the corresponding number of schools.
Number of pupils in a school\(\leqslant 100\)\(\leqslant 150\)\(\leqslant 200\)\(\leqslant 250\)\(\leqslant 350\)\(\leqslant 450\)\(\leqslant 600\)
Cumulative frequency20080016002100410047005000
  1. Draw a cumulative frequency graph with a scale of 2 cm to 100 pupils on the horizontal axis and a scale of 2 cm to 1000 schools on the vertical axis. Use your graph to estimate the median number of pupils in a school.
  2. \(80 \%\) of the schools have more than \(n\) pupils. Estimate the value of \(n\) correct to the nearest ten.
  3. Find how many schools have between 201 and 250 (inclusive) pupils.
  4. Calculate an estimate of the mean number of pupils per school.