Supplement bridge: descriptive revision

STA 112. Practice questions, not past papers.

Lessons

• Locate the preliminary material
• Reconcile conventions before computing

Practice questions

1. How should the early STA 111 labels inside the supplement be treated in this pack?

   Statistics study edition practice item Q193; Source: S1-11, S69-70; cross-reference STA 111 topics 1-11

2. Which calculation best checks a handwritten frequency total?

   Statistics study edition practice item Q194; Source: S1-11, S69-70; cross-reference STA 111 topics 1-11

3. What should be done with conflicting quartile conventions?

   Statistics study edition practice item Q195; Source: S1-11, S69-70; cross-reference STA 111 topics 1-11

4. What is the proper treatment of cropped formula fragments?

   Statistics study edition practice item Q196; Source: S1-11, S69-70; cross-reference STA 111 topics 1-11

5. For the handwritten values 8,7,4,6,7,2,3, what is the mean? Give the value to 4 decimal places.

   Statistics study edition practice item Q197; Source: S7

6. Recompute S5 using frequencies 20,41,52,14,49,98,19,15,31,65,18,92,66,70 and class midpoints 5.5,15.5,...,135.5. Find the mean. Give the value to 4 decimal places.

   Statistics study edition practice item Q198; Source: S5-8

7. The supplement contains early pages visibly labelled STA _____.

   Statistics study edition practice item F063; Source: S1-11, S69-70; cross-reference STA 111 topics 1-11

8. Handwritten frequency totals should be checked by independent _____.

   Statistics study edition practice item F064; Source: S1-11, S69-70; cross-reference STA 111 topics 1-11

Topic gap report