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1) A student carried out a statistics survey in a supermarket: At a checkout she recorded how many
items each customer had in their shopping basket. The table below gives her results.

Number of items in the basket 4 5 6 7 8 9

Number of customers with that number of items 2 7 9 11 2 5

(i) Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the number of items the customers had in their
shopping baskets. [5]
(ii) At the checkout each customer was given two free items. State the mean and the standard
deviation of the total number of items the customers now had. [2]

2) For a sample of divorced women, the table below gives the age, a years, at which each woman
was divorced.
a Frequency
16 a < 20 8
20 a < 30 30
30 a < 50 40
50 a < 70 16
70 a < 90 6

Calculate estimates of the mean and standard deviation of the ages at which women in the sample
were divorced. [5]

3) A senior officer at a fire station carried out an investigation into the time taken for a fire engine to
reach the scene of the emergency. He recorded the time, t minutes, between receiving a call for
assistance and the arrival of the fire engine at the scene of the emergency. The results are given in the
table below:
t Frequency
0<t2 6
2<t4 8
4<t6 7
6 < t 10 9
10 < t 20 20
Estimate
a) the median time, [3]
b) the upper quartile of the times,
[2]
4) A doctor conducted a survey about the ages of patients who visited his surgery. She chose a day at random
and recorded the age, in completed years, of each patient visiting the surgery on that particular day. The results
are given in the table below.
Age in completed years 0-9 10 - 19 20 - 29 30 - 39 40 - 59 60 99
Frequency 19 6 7 11 13 24
(i) Calculate estimate of the mean
(ii) Calculate inter-quartile range [5]

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