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Mathematics Department
HKUGA College
MATHEMATICS
S1 UNIT TEST 4 –INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
2009-2010

50 minutes

TOTAL: 60 MARKS

Name:______________________________________ Class:_________________________( )

INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS

 Do not open this test paper until instructed to do so.

 Unless otherwise stated in the question, all numerical answers must be given exactly or to 2
decimal places.
 The diagrams in this paper are not necessarily drawn to scale.

ADVICE TO STUDENTS

 Full marks are not necessarily awarded for a correct answer with no working. Answers must be
supported by working and/or explanations.
 Where an answer is incorrect, some marks may be given for a correct method, provided this is
shown by written working. All students should therefore be advised to show their working.
 A maximum of 2 marks will be deducted throughout the whole paper for poor presentation of
answers and 2 marks for missing units.

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Section A Multiple Choice Questions – Write 5. Study the diagram and answer
answers on page 3. Questions 5 and 6.

1. Which of the following data can be The pie chart below shows the ways of
collected from experiment? travelling to school of 600 students.

A. The ages of newly married couples The ways of traveling to school of 600 students
in a year.
B. The wages of workers in a factory.
C. The lifetimes of different brands of
light bulbs.
D. The heights of 100 students.

2. Which of the following is an example of

continuous data?

A. The marks obtained by a group of

students in a mathematics test.
B. The number of subjects taught in a
school. Find x.
o
C. Daily maximum temperature A. 60
o
recorded in a city. B. 70
D. The number of saving accounts in a o
C. 72
bank. o
D. 90

3. Which of the following is not a method 6. Find the number of students who go to
or channel used for data collection? school by MTR.

A. Estimation A. 96
B. Experiment and test B. 100
C. Questionnaire C. 120
D. Statistical report D. 150
4. Age Frequency 7. The stem-and-leaf diagram below
11 4 shows the weights of 25 students.
12 20
Weights of 25 students
13 17 Stem
Leaf (1 kg)
14 2 (10kg)
3 6 8
The above table shows the ages of 4 0 2 2 4 6 8
S2LC students. Find the number of 5 1 2 2 4 4 7 8 8
students in this class. 6 0 0 3 4 5 6
7 0 5 9
A. 12.4
B. 20 How many students weigh less than
C. 43 55kg?
D. 50
A. 10
B. 11
C. 12
D. 13
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8. Which of the following statistical 10. The broken line graph below shows the
graphs is best to predict the trend of the annual profits of a company from 2004
changes? to 2008.

A. Bar chart
B. Stem-and-leaf diagram
C. Scatter diagram
D. Broken-line graph

9. If y decreases when x increases, which

of the following scatter diagrams may
represent the relation between x and y?

A.

Which of the following are misleading

parts in the graph?
I. A large portion of the vertical axis
is deleted.
II. The horizontal axis is marked
B. unevenly.
III. Some years are missing in the
horizontal axis.

A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. II and III only
D. I, II and III
C.

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TOTAL Ⓓ SECTION A: 20 MARKS
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Section B Conventional Questions
1. Questionnaire , Previous information , Interview , Observation , Experiment (4 marks)
Select the most suitable way above to collect each of the following sets of data:
(Each can be used once only) Question Total

(a) The total sales of a certain book last year.

(b) The time spent on doing homework per day by all the students.

(c) The number of customers attending a shopping mall on a particular day.

(d) The most favourite fruits of 20 students.

2. Determine whether each of the following sets of data is discrete or continuous. (4 marks)
(a) The number of countries in the world.
Question Total
(b) The time spent on lunch by 100 students.

(c) The amount of rainfall in February.

(d) The weights of 100 staff in a company.

3. The following data, shows the time (in hours) spent daily, by 32 S1 students using computer.(6 marks)
4 1 3 3 4 2 1 0
3 3 0 1 4 3 2 3
2 2 4 3 2 1 0 1 Question Total

3 4 3 2 3 3 2 2

(a) Complete the following table.

Time spent on using

Tally Frequency
computer (hours)
0
1  5
2

(b) What is the percentage of students using computer more than 1 hour daily?

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4. The table below shows the sales of two kinds of electrical appliances of a certain brand in the
first half year. (8 marks)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
LCD TV 55 000 58 000 35 000 35 000 34 000 38 000 Question Total

Portable computer 35 000 58 000 30 000 50 000 8 000 5 000

(a) Draw, on the same graph, two broken line graphs to show the sales of LCD TVs and portable
computers respectively.

(b) Describe briefly how the sales of the two kinds of electrical appliances have changed in the first
half year.

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5. The marks obtained by a group of students in Chinese and English are listed below. (7 marks)
Chinese English
64 55 46 69 88 35 53 93 69 43
94 78 50 83 96 53 63 37 55 60 Question Total

69 75 99 95 48 48 60 45 65 73
73 58 45 88 70 48 55 66 98 83
(a) Prepare a suitable statistical graph which enables the teacher to compare the results of the
students in the two subjects.
(b) In which subject did the students perform better?
Solution
(a)

(b)

6. The following graph shows the annual sales of two magazines. (4 marks)
Annual sales of two magazines
Question Total
550 000

Sales 500 000

450 000
West Magazine ABC Magazine
(a) What are the annual sales of the two magazines?
(b) According to the lengths of the bars of West Magazine and ABC Magazine, express the length
of the bar of West Magazine as a fraction of that of ABC Magazine.
(c) Do you think that the managing director of ABC Magazine is misleading the readers? Why?

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7. The numbers of customers speaking different languages in a hotel are given below. (7 marks)
Language Number of customers Angle of the sector
English 100 Question Total
Putonghua 150
Japanese 75
French
Others 50
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Total: 500 360

(a) Complete the above table.

(b) Based on the result obtained in (a), fill in the data in the pie chart below.

The number of customers speaking different languages in a hotel

(c) Find the percentage of customers who speak Putonghua.

TOTAL FOR SECTION B: 40 MARKS

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