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Edexcel GCSE Statistics Summarising data overview quiz quiz

12questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What is the mean of the values 2,4,6,8,102, 4, 6, 8, 10?

  2. Which average is least affected by extreme outliers?

  3. For the mean of frequency data, you divide fx\sum fx by what?

  4. A data set has lower quartile 2424 and upper quartile 4040. What is the interquartile range?

  5. What is the standardised score of a value xx in a distribution with mean μ\mu and standard deviation σ\sigma?

  6. A data set has mean 4848, median 5454 and standard deviation 1212. What is its skewness?

  7. Using the quartile rule, what is the upper outlier boundary if Q3=50Q_3 = 50 and IQR=10IQR = 10?

  8. Which measure of spread should be paired with the mean?

  9. For positive skew, which order of the averages is correct?

  10. When estimating the mean of grouped data, what value of xx do you use for each class?

  11. What should you always do at the end of a standard deviation calculation?

  12. A value of 9090 is found in a data set with Q3=60Q_3 = 60 and IQR=16IQR = 16. Is it an outlier by the quartile rule?