Estimation (Edexcel GCSE Statistics: Foundation): Exam Questions

Exam code: 1ST0

3 mins1 question
1a
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2 marks

Morgan is investigating the 180 Year 11 students in his school.

He collected information from the 30 students in his class.

Part of the spreadsheet he used to collect the information is shown below.

Student number

Name

Left-handed (1 = yes, 0 = no)

Height (cm)

1

Jason

0

169

2

Rami

1

165

29

Youen

0

164

30

Elena

0

162

Total

4

5031

Morgan uses these results to find estimates for all Year 11 students.

Find his estimate for the number of left-handed students in Year 11.

1b
1 mark

Explain how Morgan can use the information in the spreadsheet to estimate the mean height of all the students in Year 11