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Edexcel A-Level Further Maths past-paper questions on 5.3 Regression and residuals, 2018–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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All 12 questions on Regression and residuals, as a list
- 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 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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
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