Tests for correlation: Edexcel A‑Level Further Maths questions
Edexcel A-Level Further Maths past-paper questions on 5.2 Tests for correlation, 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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- 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, 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, 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 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 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
- 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
- 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 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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