plumiEstimation: Edexcel GCSE Statistics questions
Every Edexcel GCSE Statistics exam question on 2h Estimation, 2019–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 20 questions on Estimation, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1 Higher, Q7 (5 marks): The Petersen capture recapture method was used to estimate the number of black bears in Pennsylvania in 2018 A group of researchers took into account the number
- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q9 (5 marks): Mandeep visited Marple Wood Farm and tallied the types of animals he saw. (a) Circle the word in the list below that best describes the type of data for the typ
- June 2024, Paper 1 Foundation, Q1 (7 marks): The incomplete pictogram gives information about the flavour and number of ice creams sold at Pradeep’s cafe one Saturday morning. Flavour Number of ice creams
- June 2024, Paper 2 Higher, Q10 (5 marks): Researchers used the Petersen capture recapture method to estimate the number of humpback whales off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington. They used
- June 2023, Paper 1 Higher, Q7 (5 marks): A class is learning about the Petersen capture-recapture method. Their teacher provides them with the following data for burbot fish in Tolsona Lake, Alaska. Th
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (7 marks): The following is an extract from part of a row of a random number list. 68236 35335 71329 (a) Use the random number list to complete the table for the first 5 r
- June 2023, Paper 2 Higher, Q1 (8 marks): Grace asked a sample of 60 people in her town if they had ever visited France or Spain. 17 people visited both France and Spain 23 people visited Spain only 33
- June 2022, Paper 1 Higher, Q5 (6 marks): David is investigating the prices of houses in Streetly, which is in the West Midlands. David took a sample of 41 houses in Streetly from a property website and
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q11 (2 marks): A vet carried out a survey to see if there is a relationship between the weight of a dog and its lifespan. The vet found the mean weight, in kg, and the median
- June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q4 (5 marks): A hospital department has three specialist consultants, A, B and C. The department manager uses 2-digit random numbers to carry out a simulation of the number o
- June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q5 (5 marks): An adventure travel company runs expeditions for groups of 20 people. The company provides all the food and equipment for these expeditions. The manager of the
- June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q6 (6 marks): Paul uses the Petersen capture recapture method in order to find an estimate for the number of trout living in a lake. To do this, Paul catches an initial sampl
- November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q8 (5 marks): David is writing a project about iguanas. He finds data on the internet posted by a biologist investigating iguanas on the Galapagos Islands. The biologist capt
- November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q5 (5 marks): The table shows information from a survey about train passengers’ satisfaction with 10 categories of train facilities in spring 2018 % satisfied % neither % dis
- November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q9 (5 marks): Tamiki wants to estimate the number of pigeons in a park. He catches a sample of 48 pigeons in the park, tags each pigeon and then releases it. A week later, Ta
- November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (7 marks): The accurately drawn pie chart shows information about the proportions of the total pet population of the UK in 2017 for animals of different types that are kep
- November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (6 marks): Cindy works in a library. She recorded the number of books borrowed by each person in a random sample of 20 people who borrowed books from the library one Monda
- June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q9 (5 marks): According to an internet site, an estimate of the number of reindeer in a region of Ontario is 5000 (Source: www.ontario.ca) Giovani wants to verify this estima
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q2 (3 marks): Andrew has collected data about the ratings given to a particular television by 20 people. Each person has given the television a rating from 1-star to 5-star.
- June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5 (5 marks): A supermarket manager recorded the total number of each type of bank note in the tills when the supermarket closed one Saturday. Here are his results. Bank note
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