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STATISTICS
Foundation tier Paper 2
Time allowed: 1 hour 45 minutes
Materials For Examiner’s Use
For this paper you must have:
Question Mark
• a calculator
• mathematical instruments. 1
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Instructions 3
• Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Draw diagrams in pencil.
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• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
• Answer all questions. 5
• You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write 6
outside the box around each page or on blank pages.
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• If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s). 8
• Do all rough work in this book. Cross out any work you do not want 9
to be marked. 10
Information 11
• The marks for questions are shown in brackets. 12
• The maximum mark for this paper is 80. 13
• You may ask for more answer paper and graph paper. These must be
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tagged securely to this answer booklet.
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, Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
1 Which of these sets of data has a different range to the others?
Circle your answer.
[1 mark]
1, 6, 6, 6 2, 3, 5, 7
3, 5, 6, 8 4, 4, 4, 8 1
2 Which of these is not a type of statistical experiment?
Circle your answer.
[1 mark]
field classroom laboratory natural 1
3 Which of these diagrams is suitable for bivariate data?
Circle your answer.
[1 mark]
scatter diagram choropleth map bar chart box plot 1
4 Four values have a median of 10.
Three of the values are 6, 10 and 10.
Circle the value that the 4th number could not be.
[1 mark]
100 12 10 6 1
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, 5 The graph shows the UK population from 1980 to 2018.
Source: ONS
5 (a) What was the UK population in 2018?
[1 mark]
Answer
5 (b) Describe the general trend in the UK population during these years.
[1 mark]
5 (c) In which year did the UK population reach 60 million?
[1 mark]
Answer 3
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