Measures of location and spread: Edexcel A‑Level Maths questions
Edexcel A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 2.2 Measures of location and spread, 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, Q2 (5 marks): Runners in an athletics club can train with either coach A or coach B for the 400 m race. Coach A trains 120 runners for the 400 m and records the best time, x
- 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, Q3 (6 marks): Ming is studying the large data set for Perth in 2015 He intended to use all the data available to find summary statistics for the Daily Mean Air Temperature, x
- June 2023, Statistics, Q3 (7 marks): Ben is studying the Daily Total Rainfall, x mm, in Leeming for 1987 He used all the data from the large data set and summarised the information in the following
- June 2023, AS Statistics, Q1 (5 marks): The histogram and its frequency polygon below give information about the weights, in grams, of 50 plums. 4 0 2 8 10 6 14 12 62 60 61 64 63 66 65 68 Weight (gram
- June 2022, Statistics, Q3 (7 marks): Dian uses the large data set to investigate the Daily Total Rainfall, r mm, for Camborne. (a) Write down how a value of 0 < r 0.05 is recorded in the large da
- June 2022, AS Statistics, Q3 (8 marks): The histogram summarises the heights of 256 seedlings two weeks after they were planted. Height of seedling (cm) Frequency density 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 1 2 3 4
- November 2021, Statistics, Q3 (8 marks): Stav is studying the large data set for September 2015 He codes the variable Daily Mean Pressure, x, using the formula y = x − 1010 The data for all 30 days fro
- November 2021, AS Statistics, Q2 (9 marks): The partially completed table and partially completed histogram give information about the ages of passengers on an airline. There were no passengers aged 90 or
- November 2020, Statistics, Q3 (10 marks): Each member of a group of 27 people was timed when completing a puzzle. The time taken, x minutes, for each member of the group was recorded. These times are su
- November 2020, AS Statistics, Q4 (7 marks): A lake contains three different types of carp. There are an estimated 450 mirror carp, 300 leather carp and 850 common carp. Tim wishes to investigate the healt
- June 2019, AS Statistics, Q4 (8 marks): Joshua is investigating the daily total rainfall in Hurn for May to October 2015 Using the information from the large data set, Joshua wishes to calculate the m
- June 2018, Statistics and Mechanics, Q4 (13 marks): Charlie is studying the time it takes members of his company to travel to the office. He stands by the door to the office from 08 40 to 08 50 one morning and as
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