CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY MATHEMATICS 9: END OF UNIT 6 TEST
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Stage 9 End of unit 6 test
1 You are investigating the ability of people of your age to estimate masses
of everyday objects such as books, plates or bags of rice. Here are two
hypotheses:
Girls can estimate more accurately than boys.
Estimates of light objects will be more accurate than estimates of heavy
objects.
Describe:
data you need to collect to test these hypotheses
why the data is appropriate
how you will collect the data.
2 You want to collect the heights of a sample of people. Here are three ways
to collect the data. For each method explain why the results could be
biased.
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Ask people to tell you their height.
Ask people to stand against a wall with a measuring tape on it.
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Make your own estimate by looking at each person.
3 You are investigating the readability of articles in online newspapers. Here
are two
ways to do this investigation:
1 Count the number of letters in each word in an article.
2 Measure the length of time it takes to read the article.
For each method:
a
the method an appropriate way to investigate readability? Give a reason
for your answer.
Method 1
Method 2
Could the results you get using each method be biased? Give a reason
for your answer.
Method 1
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Method 2
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4 You are going to do a survey of a sample of customers in a supermarket.
You want to investigate:
the time a customer is in the supermarket
the amount of money the customer spends.
Write down two hypotheses you could investigate.
Describe three ways of trying to eliminate bias in your results. Give a
reason for each way.
5 You want to collect feedback from people who have stayed in a hotel. You
send the people an email asking them to complete a short questionnaire
online. Give two possible sources of bias.
[Total: 20 marks]
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Answers
The answers given here are examples. Usually there are alternative possible
answers.
1 a Gender and estimates of masses of a range of items for each person.
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b It will enable you to look at ability to estimate heavy and light objects
and relate
this to gender.
c Give each person several objects to estimate the mass. Record gender
and results
in a table or in a spreadsheet so that they can be processed.
(1 mark for a partial answer in each section)
2 a People might not know their height and just guess. People might be
embarrassed and
give an incorrect answer.
b People might be wearing shoes with heels, in which case the height
recorded will
be too large.
c You might not make accurate or consistent guesses.
3 Method 1: Yes, because longer words are usually harder to read than
shorter words.
There could be bias if some articles are on a familiar subject and other
articles are not.
Method 2: Yes, because longer articles require more concentration. There
could be bias if different readers are used because there is a difference
between reading speed that is not
connected to ability to understand.
(1 mark for a partial answer in each section)
4 a Women stay longer in the supermarket than men.
Younger people spend more than older people.
b Collect data on different days and at different times of day.
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Include specific numbers of men and women.
Choose a range of ages of customers.
5 Not all customers will reply.
Customers might be more likely to reply if they are dissatisfied.
[Total: 20 marks]
CHAPTER 6 SUCCESSIVE CRITERIAS:
I can make related predictions and plan a statistical investigation to test the
predictions .
I can use data to make inferences and generalizations.
I can describe several ways to select a sample and choose the best method,
with a reason.
I can explain sources of bias when collecting data.
I can ask questions about the validity of a statistical investigation.
I can identify wrong or misleading information.
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