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Pack A — Fluency
MathematicsYear 8 · 8.9 Statistics Foundations
Pack A · Fluency
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Date: _________________ Class: ___________
Answer all questions. Show your working. Questions are grouped by challenge level.
BronzeQuestions 1–10
- 1.Find the mean of: 14, 16, 11, 19, 15. Show the sum and the division.
- 2.Find the median of: 17, 14, 12, 20, 15.
- 3.Find the mode of: 15, 12, 15, 18, 12, 15, 20.
- 4.Find the range of: 14, 12, 19, 11, 17, 22.
- 5.A tally chart shows: ★★★★ ★★★ for favourite colour Red (7 students). What is the frequency for Red?
- 6.In a class of 30, the frequency table shows: Football 12, Basketball 8, Tennis 5, Other 5. What fraction play Football?
- 7.For the data 5, 8, 10, 7, 8, find: (a) mean, (b) median, (c) mode.
- 8.A data set has range 12 and minimum value 5. Find the maximum.
- 9.For the data 2, 4, 4, 5, 7, 30, identify a potential outlier and justify.
- 10.A frequency table: x-value 1, 2, 3, 4; frequency 4, 3, 2, 1. Find the total count.
SilverQuestions 11–20
- 11.Find the median of: 12, 14, 11, 16, 18, 13.
- 12.The mean of 12, 15, 18, 20 and is 16. Find .
- 13.For the data set 4, 7, 9, 12, 18, find the mean and median.
- 14.Find the mean of the frequency table: value 1, 2, 3, 4; freq 5, 3, 2, 2.
- 15.A data set has mean 20. If a new value of 50 is added, what is the new mean? (The set had 9 values originally.)
- 16.Find the mean, median and mode of: 7, 8, 5, 7, 9, 7, 11, 4.
- 17.A class's test marks are 6, 8, 7, 9, 5, 10, 7, 8, 6, 4. (a) Find the mean. (b) Find the median.
- 18.A class records the number of pets per student: 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3. Construct a frequency table and find the mode.
- 19.The range of a set of 6 numbers is 20 and the smallest is 5. The largest is then replaced by 40. Find the new range.
- 20.Identify whether each measure (mean, median, mode) is affected by an outlier of 100 added to the data {5, 8, 10, 12}.
GoldQuestions 21–30
- 21.A class of 20 students has reaction-distance data (cm): 15, 11, 19, 14, 12, 17, 21, 14, 17, 11, 23, 15, 20, 17, 13, 10, 20, 16, 12, 28. Find the (a) mean, (b) median, (c) range.
- 22.For the reaction-distance dataset, identify the value most likely to be an outlier and justify.
- 23.Find the missing frequency: , , , , . Total = 20.
- 24.The mean of 5 numbers is 12. The mean of 4 of them is 10. Find the 5th number.
- 25.A class of 24 has mean test score 62. Adding a 25th student raises the mean to 63. Find the new student's score.
- 26.The mean of 8 numbers is 15. One number, 9, is replaced by 25. Find the new mean.
- 27.For a frequency table: x = 0, 1, 2, 3, 4; f = 2, 5, 8, 3, 2. Find the median.
- 28.A test taker scores where the mean is 75 and median is 78. Two extra results are added: 60 and 90. Find the new mean.
- 29.Compare the means of two classes: Class A has 25 students with mean 72; Class B has 15 students with mean 80. Find the combined mean.
- 30.A teacher records weekly mark improvements (in %): 3, 5, , 4, 6, , 0, 8. Find the (a) mean, (b) range, (c) the number of weeks where improvement was negative.
PlatinumQuestions 31–40
- 31.A data set has mean 16.25 and median 15.5. After removing the largest value (28), find the new mean and median.
- 32.Class A: 25 students, mean 70, median 72. Class B: 15 students, mean 80. Find combined mean and discuss whether you can deduce the combined median.
- 33.In a set of 6 numbers, the mean is 12, the median is 11.5, the mode is 9, and the range is 14. The numbers are integers and 9 appears twice. Find a possible data set.
- 34.A frequency table for grouped data has midpoints 9.5, 13.5, 17.5, 21.5 with frequencies 3, 7, 6, 4. Find the estimated mean.
- 35.A set of 7 positive integers has mode 4, median 5, mean 6, and range 9. Find a possible set.
- 36.A test produces marks with mean 60, median 62 and mode 70 (a positively skewed distribution). For each of the following changes, state whether mean / median / mode increase, decrease or stay the same: (a) add 100 to every score; (b) remove the score 70 (the only one); (c) multiply every score by 2.
- 37.Five numbers have mean 12 and range 6. The smallest is 9. What is the largest? Construct one valid set.
- 38.A frequency table has values with frequencies where the mean is exactly 3. Find .
- 39.The mean of the integers 1 to is 8. Find .
- 40.For a list of 6 numbers, mean = median = mode = 7. Construct one valid set, and show it has range 0 or 2.
