Specimen Paper SPEC/5/TZ0 P1 Q7

Specimen Paper SPEC/5/TZ0 P1 Q7

15 marks

A large company surveyed \(160\) of its employees to find out how much time they spend travelling to work on a given day. The results of the survey are shown Sin the following cumulative frequency diagram.

  1. Find the median number of minutes spent traveling to work.

    [2]
  2. Find the number of employees whose traveling time is within \(15\) minutes of the median.

    [3]

Only \(10\%\) of the employees spent more than \(k\) minutes traveling to work.

  1. Find the value of \(k\).

    [3]

The results of the survey can also be displayed on the following box-and-whisker diagram.

  1. Write down the value of \(b\).

    [1]
    1. Find the value of \(a\).

    2. Hence, find the interquartile range.

      [4]

Traveling times of less than \(p\) minutes are considered outliers.

  1. Find the value of \(p\).

    [2]
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Answer:(a) \(40\) minutes (b) \(124\) (c) \(k = 56\) (d) \(b = 70\) (e)(i) \(a = 33\) (e)(ii) IQR \(= 14\) (f) \(12\)

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