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Every Edexcel A-Level Further Maths exam question on FS.5 Correlation and regression, 2018–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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- June 2025, Further Statistics 2, Q1 (10 marks): A medical researcher is exploring the relationship between the weight, x kg, and the head circumference, y cm, of newborn babies. A random sample of 15 newborn
- June 2025, Further Statistics 2, Q2 (7 marks): Two lecturers are marking a large batch of students’ essays, to place them in rank order. A random sample of 9 students is taken and their essays are marked by
- June 2025, AS Further Statistics 2, Q1 (6 marks): In a singing competition, two judges ranked the vocal quality of each of 8 singers. The singers are labelled A to H and the table below shows the ranks given by
- June 2025, AS Further Statistics 2, Q3 (14 marks): Dina is investigating the relationship between a marathon runner’s body mass index (BMI), x kg m –2, and the runner’s average speed when running a marathon, v m
- June 2024, Further Statistics 2, Q1 (9 marks): Two students are experimenting with some water in a plastic bottle. The bottle is filled with water and a hole is put in the bottom of the bottle. The students
- June 2024, Further Statistics 2, Q2 (7 marks): An estate agent asks customers to rank 7 features of a house, A, B, C, D, E, F and G, in order of importance. The responses for two randomly selected customers
- June 2024, AS Further Statistics 2, Q2 (7 marks): A random sample of size n = 8 of paired data is taken from a population. The data are plotted below. 10 20 30 40 10 O y x 20 30 40 Test, at the 1% level of sign
- June 2024, AS Further Statistics 2, Q5 (8 marks): A random sample of 24 adults is taken. The height, h metres, and the arm span, s metres, for each adult are recorded. These data are summarised below. Shh = 0 3
- June 2023, Further Statistics 2, Q1 (7 marks): Baako is investigating the times taken by children to run a 100 m race, x seconds, and a 500 m race, y seconds. For a sample of 20 children, Baako obtains the t
- June 2023, AS Further Statistics 2, Q1 (10 marks): Every applicant for a job at Donala is given three different tasks, P, Q and R. For each task the applicant is awarded a score. The scores awarded to 9 of the a
- June 2023, AS Further Statistics 2, Q3 (10 marks): Pat is investigating the relationship between the height of professional tennis players and the speed of their serve. Data from 9 randomly selected professional
- June 2022, Further Statistics 2, Q1 (7 marks): Kwame is investigating a possible relationship between average March temperature, t °C, and tea yield, y kg/hectare, for tea grown in a particular location. He
- June 2022, AS Further Statistics 2, Q1 (7 marks): Abena and Meghan are both given the same list of 10 films. Each of them ranks the 10 films from most favourite to least favourite. For the differences, d, betwe
- June 2022, AS Further Statistics 2, Q3 (10 marks): Gabriela is investigating a particular type of fish, called bream. She wants to create a model to predict the weight, w grams, of bream based on their length, x
- November 2021, Further Statistics 2, Q1 (7 marks): Anisa is investigating the relationship between marks on a History test and marks on a Geography test. She collects information from 7 students. She wants to ca
- November 2021, Further Statistics 2, Q4 (10 marks): A researcher is investigating the relationship between elevation, x metres, and annual mean temperature, t °C. From a random sample of 20 weather stations in Sw
- November 2020, Further Statistics 2, Q3 (6 marks): 3 Below are 3 sketches from some students of the residuals from their linear regressions of y on x. Residuals 0 x I Residuals 0 x III Residuals 0 x II For each
- November 2020, AS Further Statistics 2, Q1 (3 marks): An estate agent in Tornep believes that houses further from the railway station are more expensive than those that are closer. She took a random sample of 22 th
- November 2020, AS Further Statistics 2, Q2 (9 marks): Mary, Jahil and Dawn are judging the cakes in a village show. They have 5 features to consider and each feature is awarded up to 5 points. The total score the j
- November 2020, AS Further Statistics 2, Q4 (14 marks): Some students are investigating the strength of wire by suspending a weight at the end of the wire. They measure the diameter of the wire, d mm, and the weight,
- June 2019, Further Statistics 2, Q2 (10 marks): 2 A large field of wheat is split into 8 plots of equal area. Each plot is treated with a different amount of fertiliser, Igrams /m2. The yield of wheat, w ton
- June 2019, Further Statistics 2, Q8 (11 marks): 8 Nine athletes, A, B, C, D, E,),*,+and,, competed in both the 100 m sprint and the long jump. After the two events the positions of each athlete were reco
- June 2019, AS Further Statistics 2, Q1 (10 marks): Bara is investigating whether or not the two judges of a skating competition are in agreement. The two judges gave a score to each of the 8 skaters in the compe
- June 2019, AS Further Statistics 2, Q3 (11 marks): Two students, Jim and Dora, collected data on the mean annual rainfall, w cm, and the annual yield of leeks, l tonnes per hectare, for 10 years. Jim summarised
- June 2018, AS Further Statistics 2, Q1 (11 marks): 2 *P60205A0216* 1. The scores achieved on a maths test, m, and the scores achieved on a physics test, p, by 16 students are summarised below. ∑ m = 392 ∑ p = 25
- June 2018, AS Further Statistics 2, Q3 (12 marks): The table below shows the heights cleared, in metres, for each of 6 competitors in a high jump competition. Competitor A B C D E F Height (m) 2.05 1.93 2.02 1.9
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