A Level Statistics Past Papers
Paper 1
Exam sittings
| Session | Questions | Syllabus code |
|---|---|---|
| November 2022 | 29 | 6046/1 |
| November 2021 | 46 | 6046/1 |
| November 2020 | 43 | 6046/1 |
| November 2018 | 38 | 6046/1 |
Topics covered
normal distributioncorrelation and regressionnormal distribution / linear combinationstime seriesdescriptive statisticsprobability, Poisson distributionchi-squared goodness of fit / Poisson distributionconditional probabilitycontinuous random variablesdescriptive statistics / frequency distributions
Sample questions
- A group of twenty people played a game. The frequency distribution of their scores is:…
- A student travels to school by bus, car, or on foot with probabilities \frac{1}{6},…
- According to the Central Limit Theorem, for a sufficiently large sample size n drawn from…
- The volume of dish washing liquid in a satchet is normally distributed with mean 400 ml…
- A group of twenty people played a game with scores 1, 2, 4 and 10, having frequencies 2,…
- A student travels to school by bus, car, or on foot with probabilities \frac{1}{6},…
- 120 bags of mealie-meal have mean mass 750g and standard deviation 3.9g. What is the…
- A machine packs washing powder into packets with mean weight 2 kg. The weights are…
- A head of school can contact parents by e-mail, letter or cellphone with probabilities…
- The times to the nearest minute taken by 12 students to complete a task are: 43, 45, 46,…
- 120 bags of mealie-meal have mean mass 750g and standard deviation 3.9g. Using a 95%…
- A machine packs washing powder into packets that are normally distributed with mean 2 kg…
- A head of school contacts parents by e-mail, letter or cellphone with probabilities 0.4,…
- The times to the nearest minute taken by 12 students to complete a task are: 43, 45, 46,…
- An ice cream vendor's sales are 40% chocolate, 35% vanilla and 25% peach. The probability…
- A continuous random variable X has probability density function f(x) = \dfrac{3}{8}x^2…
- Which of the following is not one of the four traditional components of a time series?
- The times to the nearest minute taken by 12 students to complete a task are 43, 45, 46,…
Paper 2
Exam sittings
| Session | Questions | Syllabus code |
|---|---|---|
| November 2022 | 30 | 6046/2 |
| November 2019 | 36 | 6046/2 |
| November 2018 | 36 | 6046/2 |
Topics covered
normal distributionregression and correlationtime seriesprobabilityestimation / hypothesis testingpermutations and combinationsprobability distributionsPoisson distributionbinomial and geometric distributionsbinomial and geometric distributions / normal approximation
Sample questions
- Which of the following is an advantage of using telephone interviews as a way of…
- A continuous random variable X has probability density function f(x) = \dfrac{x}{12} for…
- The volume of dish washing liquid in satchets is normally distributed with mean 400 ml…
- When selecting a number of objects from a set, which condition makes the selection a…
- A continuous random variable X has probability density function f(x) = \dfrac{x}{12} for…
- A new detergent is made by mixing the contents of 1 satchet of dish washing liquid, mean…
- What is the formula, in terms of n and r, for the number of permutations of r objects…
- A continuous random variable X has probability density function f(x) = \dfrac{x}{12} for…
- A machine packs washing powder into packets with mean weight 2 kg. The weights are…
- Whenever there is a power-cut, a school is equally likely (probability 1/3 each) to…
- A method of collecting statistical data involves obtaining information from every single…
- Packets of washing powder have weights normally distributed with mean 2 kg and standard…
- Using the same power-cut scenario (each generator equally likely to be switched on with…
- In a survey of 100 athletes at a marathon, the amount of water taken, in litres, was…
- A continuous random variable X has probability density function f(x) = (3/8)x^2 for 0 <=…
- An unbiased die with faces marked 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3 is rolled twice. If X is the total…
- In a survey of 100 athletes at a marathon, the amount of water taken, in litres, was…
- A continuous random variable X has cumulative distribution function F(x) = x^3/8 for 0 <=…
Paper 4
Exam sittings
| Session | Questions | Syllabus code |
|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | 27 | N/A |
| November 2008 | 31 | N/A |
| June 2008 | 33 | N/A |
| June 2007 | 30 | N/A |
Topics covered
regression and correlationPoisson distributionchi-squared goodness of fit testnormal distributionpoisson distributioncontinuous random variableshypothesis testingprobabilitycentral limit theorem and sampling distributionsconfidence intervals and hypothesis testing
Sample questions
- A man pulls a crate of weight 20 N along a rough horizontal floor using a string inclined…
- Continuing the crate scenario (weight 20 N, pulling force 4 N at 60° to the horizontal,…
- A manufacturing plant uses three machines, A, B and C, in its production process. The…
- The diameters of 25 steel rods have a sample mean of 0.980 cm and a standard deviation of…
- A stem-and-leaf diagram of pocket money (in dollars) received by a group of girls is…
- An experiment has only two possible outcomes. The first outcome occurs with probability p…
- A manufacturing plant uses three machines, A, B and C, contributing 40%, 45% and 15% of…
- The masses (g) of 24 sweets, read off a stem-and-leaf diagram and placed in ascending…
- Using the same pocket money data (20 girls, values in cents:…
- A survey in a city shows that the probability a person is in favour of capital punishment…
- A factory produces two types of nut and bolt with normally distributed masses. Type A…
- Using the same 24 sweet masses (g) 0.72, 0.73, 0.79, 0.80, 0.88, 0.91, 0.91, 0.94, 0.98,…
- A school's lower sixth intake is 55% from its own O-level pupils and 45% from other…
- The continuous random variable X has probability density function f(x)=\frac{1}{28}(6x-4)…
- A factory produces two types of nut and bolt with independent, normally distributed…
- A sweet with mass greater than 1.2 g is classified as large. From the 24 masses (g) 0.72,…
- Using the same school (55% own O-level pupils, 45% from elsewhere; pass rates 70% and 90%…
- The table below shows the masses of 200 students measured to the nearest kg. | Mass (kg)…
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