Measures of dispersion: Edexcel GCSE Statistics questions

Every Edexcel GCSE Statistics exam question on 2c Measures of dispersion, 2019–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.

All 63 questions on Measures of dispersion, as a list

June 2025, Paper 1 Higher, Q3 (14 marks): Tsena is researching the ages of Oscar winners. She has collected data from the internet about the ages of the winners of the Best Actor and Best Actress catego
June 2025, Paper 1 Higher, Q8 (13 marks): David collected data on the times, in hours, taken for men to complete the Ironman Canada 2022 race and the Ironman UK 2022 race. These graphs and summary stati
June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q6 (6 marks): There is an award for board and card games. Matthew collected a list of the 9 games that were recommended by the awards panel in the critics prize category for
June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (4 marks): Passengers for airline flights have their suitcases weighed when they check in. LocalHop offers flights to and from islands in a small plane. Here is a list of
June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q13 (14 marks): Tsena is researching the ages of Oscar winners. She has collected data from the internet about the ages of the winners of the Best Actor and Best Actress catego
June 2025, Paper 2 Higher, Q4 (9 marks): The cumulative frequency diagram gives information about the lengths, in mm, of a sample of 80 pike, caught in the Yukon River in Alaska. The pike were put back
June 2025, Paper 2 Higher, Q12 (4 marks): The table shows some of the percentile eye lengths (mm) in children between the ages of 4 and 8 Eye length (mm) for boys (B) and girls (G) Percentile Age 5th 25
June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q6 (5 marks): Tim recorded the number of sheep on each of eight farms. The results are shown below. 44 41 72 74 68 80 68 97 (a) Work out the median. Tim recorded the number o
June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q12 (5 marks): The scatter diagram shows the marks each of ten students got for a Maths test and for a Music test. 100 90 80 70 60 Music mark 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50
June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q18 (9 marks): The cumulative frequency diagram gives information about the lengths, in mm, of a sample of 80 pike, caught in the Yukon River in Alaska. The pike were put back
June 2024, Paper 1 Higher, Q10 (6 marks): During a sports day competition students take part in two races. Each student runs a 100 m race and a 400 m race. The table shows the mean and the standard devi
June 2024, Paper 1 Foundation, Q4 (10 marks): A basketball team played 9 matches at the start of a season. The total number of points they scored in each match is listed below. 80 64 87 64 42 81 89 138 68 H
June 2024, Paper 2 Higher, Q2 (12 marks): Some researchers investigated the hand span, in centimetres, of adult pianists by their level – international, national and amateur. The box plots below give in
June 2024, Paper 2 Higher, Q5 (11 marks): Zack is comparing the players from the England Rugby Union team with the players from the Welsh Rugby Union team. The players are listed as Rugby Union Forwards
June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q4 (6 marks): Tachi collects data on the heights, in metres, of a sample of Egyptian pyramids. Here is her data. 136.4 101.1 104 62.6 138.8 65.5 93.5 (Source: www.rankred.com
June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q11 (12 marks): Some researchers investigated the hand span, in centimetres, of adult pianists by their level – international, national and amateur. The box plots below give in
June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q13 (5 marks): The cumulative frequency graph gives information about the ages, in years, of the 650 members of the UK Parliament in 2017 800 700 600 500 Cumulative 400 freque
June 2023, Paper 1 Higher, Q1 (10 marks): The scores for Vitality Roses netball team for the 2017 season are listed below. 55 61 72 62 52 74 56 49 75 66 64 85 55 52 55 94 61 46 74 54 (Source: www.englan
June 2023, Paper 1 Higher, Q9 (8 marks): Ligita collected data on the handspans, in cm, of men and the handspans, in cm, of women. She processed her data using statistical software, here are her result
June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q6 (12 marks): David asked 15 of his friends about the number of pets they each have. Here is the data he collected. 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 8 (a) Circle the word in the l
June 2023, Paper 2 Higher, Q2 (5 marks): Logan is investigating the heights of male adult giraffes and the heights of female adult giraffes. He records the height, in metres, of each of a sample of mal
June 2023, Paper 2 Higher, Q3 (7 marks): The cumulative frequency step polygon shows information about the number of goals scored in each of 28 matches played by the German women’s national football te
June 2023, Paper 2 Higher, Q6 (8 marks): The table shows information about the times, in minutes, taken for 52 people to complete a 5 km race. Time (t minutes) Frequency 16 < t  20 7 20 < t  24 25 24
June 2023, Paper 2 Higher, Q11 (8 marks): The heights of a group of seven-year-old boys have a mean of 121.7 cm and a standard deviation of 5.3 cm. (Source: www.who.int/growthref/who2007_height_for_age/
June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (6 marks): Sam used the internet to collect the times, in minutes, it took for 50 cyclists to compete in a hill climb competition. He used a group frequency table to recor
June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q12 (5 marks): Logan is investigating the heights of male adult giraffes and the heights of female adult giraffes. He records the height, in metres, of each of a sample of mal
June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q13 (7 marks): The cumulative frequency step polygon shows information about the number of goals scored in each of 28 matches played by the German women’s national football te
June 2022, Paper 1 Higher, Q10 (5 marks): Huan has applied for a job at a college. As part of the interview process all candidates must take a numeracy test and a literacy test. The table below gives Hu
June 2022, Paper 1 Higher, Q11 (5 marks): Viktoria collects information about the times taken, in seconds, by 50 boys to run 400 metres. She records her results in the grouped frequency table, shown bel
June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q5 (5 marks): Jane is a car mechanic at MPG Autos. Jane recorded the time, in minutes, that she took to change a tyre on each of 9 cars. Here are her results. 25 32 19 27 17
June 2022, Paper 2 Higher, Q2 (9 marks): Bill investigated the heights of females competing in different sports. Using data from the internet, he recorded the height, in cm, of each female in a sample
June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (9 marks): Bill investigated the heights of females competing in different sports. Using data from the internet, he recorded the height, in cm, of each female in a sample
November 2021, Paper 1 Higher, Q2 (6 marks): The cumulative frequency graph gives information about the area, in square kilometres, of the 48 counties in England. 50 45 40 35 30 Cumulative frequency 25 20
November 2021, Paper 1 Higher, Q8 (6 marks): Rachel has collected information on the minimum wage, in US dollars per hour, for each of 50 US regions. She uses a spreadsheet to sort the data into ascending
November 2021, Paper 1 Higher, Q12 (7 marks): The age and price of 12 used cars of the same type are plotted on the scatter diagram below. 16 000 14 000 12 000 10 000 Price (£) 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 0 5 10
November 2021, Paper 1 Higher, Q13 (7 marks): Tomi has collected data about the weights, in kg, of cats of a particular breed. The table gives some of the percentiles of his data. Percentile Weight (kg) 97.
November 2021, Paper 1 Foundation, Q5 (10 marks): Bethany is the union representative at the large company where she works. She is investigating the salaries of the employees at the company. Bethany takes a sim
November 2021, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (7 marks): Aminah collected information about the mean daily temperature, in °C, in August in Scotland for the years 1910 to 2018 The table shows a summary of the data pro
November 2021, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (6 marks): The cumulative frequency graph gives information about the area, in square kilometres, of the 48 counties in England. 50 45 40 35 30 Cumulative frequency 25 20
November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q5 (3 marks): Birgitta works in a wildlife reserve. She has been researching the size of tiger feet in order to help in the identification of animal tracks. The table gives i
November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q10 (5 marks): The table gives the standardised scores for Brinn Bevan in three of the gymnastic apparatus used in the men’s all‑around final in the 2018 Artistic Gymnastics W
November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q11 (12 marks): The glucose level in blood is measured in milligrams per 100 millilitres (mg/100 ml). A doctor is investigating the glucose levels in blood of some adult female
November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q4 (9 marks): Shona and Luke are investigating housing. Shona wants to find out about the types of house in which people live. She plans to collect data by asking people to t
November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (8 marks): Diana is investigating the numbers of wolf pups in wolf dens and the numbers of fox pups in fox dens. She collected data from the internet. Data collected from
November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q13 (5 marks): Anne is investigating the effect of caffeine on reaction times. Here is what Anne has written down for her hypothesis and how she plans to collect, process and
November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q6 (11 marks): The cumulative frequency graph shows information about the maximum daily temperature, in °C, in Bingley for the 30 days of June 2018 30 25 20 Cumulative frequen
November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q8 (4 marks): The table shows information about the performance of students in a Maths examination and in a Statistics examination. Examination Mean mark Standard deviation M
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
November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q14 (7 marks): Joel is investigating the heights of buildings in Paris and in London. He collects data on the heights of the tallest buildings in Paris and in London. Joel dec
November 2020, Paper 2 Higher, Q11 (5 marks): Bella collected the finish times, x minutes, of the men’s elite wheelchair race at the 2018 London Marathon. She uses statistical software to calculate the foll
November 2020, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5 (7 marks): Some people were asked to complete three puzzles, Puzzle X, Puzzle Y and Puzzle Z. The table shows some summary statistics about the times taken, in minutes, to
June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q2 (8 marks): The cumulative frequency diagram gives information about the heights, in metres, of a sample of 100 oak trees in Camden, London. 110 100 90 80 70 60 Cumulative
June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q4 (2 marks): Diana is a journalist working for a local newspaper. She is writing a newspaper article about how house prices in the local area have changed. Diana has house p
June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q5 (5 marks): Chris is carrying out an experiment to see if left handed people have a better memory than right handed people. He has two groups of people with the same number
June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q8 (5 marks): The table shows some of the expected percentile weights (kg) for babies up to 6 months old, based on data collected from the World Health Organisation. Weight (
June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q4 (5 marks): Here are the weights, in kilograms, of 10 dogs. 9.2 4.3 68.2 12.3 6.5 10.6 14.2 16.0 9.1 8.5 (a) Work out the range. kg (b) Work out the median. kg The median i
June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q12 (8 marks): The cumulative frequency diagram gives information about the heights, in metres, of a sample of 100 oak trees in Camden, London. 110 100 90 80 70 60 Cumulative
June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q14 (2 marks): Diana is a journalist working for a local newspaper. She is writing a newspaper article about how house prices in the local area have changed. Diana has house p
June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q5 (5 marks): The figures below show the amount, in £ millions, of UK aid given to Ethiopia for each of the years 2009 to 2015 219 263 344 265 329 321 338 The table gives a s
June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q9 (5 marks): To apply for a job at a bank, an applicant must first take a numeracy test. The table gives information about the results of the test taken by all applicants. M
June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q10 (6 marks): Noah is investigating the reaction times of some athletes. He collects information from 50 athletes and records the data in a spreadsheet. He sorts the data fro
June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (7 marks): Mayokun measured and recorded the height, to the nearest cm, of each of the first 20 female students and of each of the first 20 male students to arrive at his

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