The large data set: Edexcel A‑Level Maths questions

Edexcel A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 1.2 The large data set, 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, Q2 (6 marks): Jasper is investigating the relationship between Daily Mean Pressure and Daily Mean Windspeed (Beaufort conversion) for Perth in 2015 using the data from the la
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 2024, AS Statistics, Q2 (3 marks): Keith is studying the variable Daily Mean Wind Direction, in degrees, from the large data set. Keith summarised the data for Camborne from 1987 into 4 direction
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, 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, 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, Q4 (2 marks): Jiang is studying the variable Daily Mean Pressure from the large data set. He drew the following box and whisker plot for these data for one of the months for
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, Q3 (4 marks): Helen is studying one of the qualitative variables from the large data set for Heathrow from 2015. She started with the data from 3rd May and then took every 10
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, Q4 (9 marks): Magali is studying the mean total cloud cover, in oktas, for Leuchars in 1987 using data from the large data set. The daily mean total cloud cover for all 184 d
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, Q1 (5 marks): Helen believes that the random variable C, representing cloud cover from the large data set, can be modelled by a discrete uniform distribution. (a) Write down

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