Correlation and regression: Edexcel A‑Level Maths questions
Edexcel A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 2.4 Correlation and regression, 2010–2025, 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, Statistics, Q4 (9 marks): Kay is studying the variables Daily Total Sunshine (x) and Daily Total Rainfall (y) from the large data set for Leeming in 2015 Kay starts with 5th May and then
- June 2025, AS Statistics, Q4 (5 marks): Giovanni believes there is a relationship between the mass of a car, m kg, and its fuel consumption, c miles per gallon (mpg). For a sample of 25 cars, he obtai
- June 2024, Statistics, Q2 (6 marks): Amar is studying the flight of a bird from its nest. He measures the bird’s height above the ground, h metres, at time t seconds for 10 values of t Amar finds t
- June 2023, AS Statistics, Q2 (4 marks): Fred and Nadine are investigating whether there is a linear relationship between Daily Mean Pressure, p hPa, and Daily Mean Air Temperature, t °C, in Beijing us
- June 2022, Statistics, Q6 (9 marks): Anna is investigating the relationship between exercise and resting heart rate. She takes a random sample of 19 people in her year at school and records for eac
- June 2022, AS Statistics, Q1 (5 marks): The relationship between two variables p and t is modelled by the regression line with equation p = 22 – 1.1 t The model is based on observations of the indepen
- November 2021, Statistics, Q2 (6 marks): Marc took a random sample of 16 students from a school and for each student recorded • the number of letters, x, in their last name • the number of letters, y,
- November 2020, Statistics, Q2 (7 marks): A random sample of 15 days is taken from the large data set for Perth in June and July 1987. The scatter diagram in Figure 1 displays the values of two of the v
- November 2020, AS Statistics, Q2 (5 marks): Jerry is studying visibility for Camborne using the large data set June 1987. The table below contains two extracts from the large data set. It shows the daily
- June 2019, Statistics, Q3 (9 marks): Barbara is investigating the relationship between average income (GDP per capita), x US dollars, and average annual carbon dioxide (CO,) emissions, y tonnes, fo
- June 2019, AS Statistics, Q1 (5 marks): A sixth form college has 84 students in Year 12 and 56 students in Year 13 The head teacher selects a stratified sample of 40 students, stratified by year group
- June 2018, Statistics and Mechanics, Q2 (7 marks): Tessa owns a small clothes shop in a seaside town. She records the weekly sales figures, £ w, and the average weekly temperature, t °C, for 8 weeks during the s
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