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Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics 8 Copyright Cambridge Unversity Press 201)
Answers to Coursebook exercises
40 Processing and presenting data
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2a b ws
3.40 ba «2 @ 193
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{6 They are correc ifthe ist isthe mean the second is the median and the third is the mode,
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b Not correct. Itistrue for the three averages but the range will not change.
Bal Wi tends 2 Ww 225
'b Themean or the median would be best. Every score contributes to the mean. Ina least half the matches
the team scored at least the median. The mode is not a good choice.
9. There are lots of possible answers, Here is one
4a 21-30
1b Because 15.5 is halfway between 11 and 20 (or between 10.5 and 20.5).
© 2925
2a bb halfeay between 20 and 25,
€ about 320733 432.5 minutes S
a 95cm © 905m
a 3-40
1b Only 18 messages have a length of 20 characters of les. The median is between the 25th and 26th so
itis more than 20,
{© There are ten messages at most 10 characters long and one at least 51 characters long. The range must
beat east 51 ~ 10 = character
4. 249 characters
5 857 between 30minutesand onchour __€ about 4S minutes 44'minutes
a 70-80 —-b 120 € seconds 6B seconds
€@ The mean isthe best choice because the frequencies from every class are use to estimate it.
4a Paper 2. For Paper 2, the median was 5 les and the mean was nearly 7 less than Paper
bb Paper 1 because Paper 1's range was greater than Paper 2's range.
2 Awas better than B because the mean grade for A was 337 and for Bit was only 2.75."The mean is probably
the best average to ure because it takes account of all the scores Unit 10 Answers to Coursebook exercises
3 Both teams have the same median, 2 goals. The mean for Juventus is 2.05 and for AC Milan is 1.82, so Juventus
scored 0.23 more goals per match, on average. The mode isnot helpful in this case because there are three modes
for AC Milan: 0,1 and 2 all have the same frequency.
{4 The median forthe boys is about 132 cm and forthe girls is about 135 em, making the girls about 3 cm taller,
‘on average. The mean for the boys is 132.3 cm and forthe girls is 135.2 em again the girls are about 3.em tale,
‘on average.
5 The mean for May is 8.3 cm and for November is 18.5 cm. The median for May is between 5 and 10cm and the
‘median for November is between 15 and 20 cm. Both these show that on average there is about 10 em more rain
in November than in May. The range forthe two months is similar as both spread over five classe.
6a4s
b_ You cannot tell The nine in the classes 80-84 and 85-89 after dieting definitely lot mas, but some of the
‘others may not have done so.
€ The ange increased by about 10 kg.
d_ The mean mass went dovn from 104.7 kg to 96.2 kg, an average decrease of 8.5 ky,
End-of-unit review
Aa Scharacters —-b Scharacters —€ 9.3characters. dS characters,
2 al %sem fh 10cm — i 96cm WV 30cm
The mode, Have more ofthat size in the shop.
a 21-25 b i189 € tis inthe 16-20 clase
4 a2 b About 31 minutes isa good estimate, € 32.25 minutes
The estimate should be between 30 and 50 minutes
5 a 35boysand 32 girls
1b They have the same median, 10,'The mean forthe boys i 9.9 and the mean forthe girls i 85. The boys were
about 0.4 answers better.
{6 The modal class forthe newspapers 11-15 and for the magazine itis 21-25, The mean forthe newspaper is M1
and for the magazine it s 18.9. This shows that the sentences in the magazine are longer by about 4.8 words
