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Every CAIE A-Level Maths exam question on 6.4 Sampling and estimation, June 2024 and the specimen papers, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 5 questions on Sampling and estimation, as a list
- June 2024, Paper 6, Q3 (6 marks): The time taken in minutes for a certain daily train journey has a normal distribution with standard deviation 5.8 . For a random sample of 20 days the journey t
- June 2024, Paper 6, Q4 (9 marks): (a) A random sample of 8 boxes of cereal from a certain supplier was taken. Each box was weighed and the masses in grams were as follows. 261 249 259 252 255 25
- Specimen, Paper 6, Q1 (4 marks): Leaves from a certain type of tree have lengths that are distributed with standard deviation 3.2 cm. A random sample of 250 of these leaves is taken and the mea
- Specimen, Paper 6, Q2 (3 marks): Describe briefly how to use random numbers to choose a sample of 10 students from a year-group of 276 students. [3]
- Specimen, Paper 6, Q7 (7 marks): The mean weight of bags of carrots is μ kilograms. An inspector wishes to test whether μ = 2.0. He weighs a random sample of 200 bags and his results are summar
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