plumiPopulation and samples: Edexcel A‑Level Statistics questions
Every Edexcel A-Level Statistics exam question on D.3 Population and samples, 2018–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 14 questions on Population and samples, as a list
- June 2024, Statistics in Practice, Q6 (19 marks): 6 Josceline has a music player with 145 songs stored on it. The shuffle function on Josceline’s music player selects the next song to play by randomly selecting
- June 2023, Data and Probability, Q1 (9 marks): 1 Yin is the manager of a busy fast-food restaurant. He wants to get customer feedback on the quality of the service at the restaurant. Three different sampling
- November 2021, Data and Probability, Q4 (10 marks): 4 Kit is researching a type of mould that grows on oak and ash trees. He decides to take a sample of 20 trees from a local arboretum to study. The arboretum has
- November 2020, Data and Probability, Q1 (6 marks): 1 Shenandoah works at a medical practice. She wants to find out about patients’ opinions on a planned extension to the practice and the disruption this may caus
- November 2020, Statistics in Practice, Q4 (22 marks): 4 Donal works in the head office of a large law firm. The law firm employs both qualified solicitors and ‘agents’ to resolve legal cases. Each legal case is ass
- November 2020, AS Paper 1, Q7 (17 marks): 7 Derek wants to buy a new smartphone and is investigating which model of smartphone to buy. He observes that models of smartphone with a greater battery energy
- November 2020, AS Paper 2, Q2 (4 marks): 2 During January 2019, a Prom Party committee of Year 11 students was formed at a large school. In March 2019, the committee published its proposed plans for th
- June 2019, Data and Probability, Q1 (7 marks): 1 Eva has been asked by the manager of a gym to select a sample of members. Each one of these people will be sent a questionnaire to complete by post. She has b
- June 2019, Statistics in Practice, Q6 (15 marks): 6 Andrew works in the human resources department of a very large company. He has been given the task of assessing the impact of a new procedure for submitting w
- June 2019, AS Paper 2, Q1 (3 marks): 1 You have been asked by your local district council to conduct a survey of local businesses. You need to generate a stratified sample of businesses that is rep
- June 2019, AS Paper 2, Q7 (14 marks): 7 A journalist presents a story to the editor stating that: 'District councils in England are having to cut costs to ever greater levels. From the tax year 2015
- June 2018, AS Paper 1, Q3 (11 marks): 3 Neville is trying to research fitness levels of people under 25 for his PhD. He is particularly interested in the exercise habits of young people with diabete
- June 2018, AS Paper 1, Q5 (15 marks): 5 Deshandra is writing a report on the consumption of hot drinks around the world. She believes that countries where more coffee is consumed are likely to consu
- June 2018, AS Paper 2, Q1 (4 marks): 1 Random Systematic Experimental Unbiased Snowball Simple Judgmental Disproportional Unrestricted Census Sampling Non-random Biased Cluster Proportional Stratif
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