plumiPopulation and sampling: Edexcel GCSE Statistics questions
Every Edexcel GCSE Statistics exam question on 1c Population and sampling, 2019–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 50 questions on Population and sampling, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1 Higher, Q5 (14 marks): A council wants to encourage people to use the council leisure centres. The council has put advertisements in the town centres to tell people about the opening
- June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (3 marks): Priya is the manager of a company that makes toys. The company wants to extend the working hours of the employees to increase production. Priya plans to ask a s
- June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q11 (11 marks): Benjamin collected data on the results for the male competitors in the Ironman Canada competition in 2022 The incomplete histogram and incomplete grouped freque
- 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, Q11 (4 marks): A road safety officer records the speed of each vehicle travelling faster than the speed limit of 30 mph as they pass a site. Here are the results. Speed of veh
- June 2025, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (1 mark): Freya wants to work out the life span of the light bulbs produced at her factory. She selects a random sample of 50 light bulbs, and measures the time taken for
- 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, Q5 (11 marks): The management of a factory is considering changing the working hours of their employees. Muhammad and Rose want to get the views of the employees in the factor
- June 2024, Paper 1 Foundation, Q6 (11 marks): The manager of a gym is reviewing the current opening times of the gym. The manager thinks that if the gym is open for more hours it will affect the number of p
- 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 Foundation, Q5 (6 marks): Claire is planning an investigation into the length of time that a learner has to wait for a driving test. She wants to find out about how waiting time varies i
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q7 (7 marks): Chris is a manager at a theme park. He wants to find out what food options visitors would like to be able to buy in the theme park. (a) State the population for
- 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 2023, Paper 1 Higher, Q4 (5 marks): Maciek is investigating the performance of athletes in the long jump. He wants to find out how the height of an athlete affects the distance jumped. Here is how
- June 2023, Paper 1 Higher, Q11 (5 marks): The manager of a large delivery company wants to investigate whether employees have dealt with personal errands whilst at work in the last 6 months. He plans to
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q4 (12 marks): A town council is proposing to build a new leisure centre. Michelle is going to carry out a survey to find out what all the people in the town think of the prop
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (5 marks): The table gives information about the ages of people on the electoral register in the West Midlands in December 2018 Age 17 years old 18 years old and older Num
- 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, Q4 (5 marks): Maya works in a factory that produces hammers. Today she is going to take a sample of the hammers produced and check them for defects. (a) Which one of these st
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q4 (5 marks): Rose is investigating the number of brothers and sisters that students in her secondary school have. To investigate this she asks 10 students in Year 8 and 10 s
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q7 (5 marks): A theme park in Staffordshire has around 30 000 visitors per day. (Source: www.statista.com) Navine is a manager at the theme park. Navine is investigating what
- June 2023, Paper 2 Foundation, Q11 (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, Q4 (6 marks): A supermarket chain has 93 stores in the United Kingdom with a total of 4502 employees. Each store is either a large store or a small store. The directors of th
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (6 marks): Mrs Singh is the Headteacher of a school with 1200 students. She wants to find out about the ways the students at her school use the internet to complete their
- June 2022, Paper 1 Foundation, Q8 (2 marks): Sheffield City Council has more than 8000 employees. These employees work at different locations in Sheffield. (Source: Wikipedia.org) A researcher wants to fin
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q1 (6 marks): For a survey, Kayleigh counted the number of people in each of the 20 cars that arrived at her office car park one morning. Here are her results. 1 1 2 2 3 3 1
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q4 (9 marks): Nikola asks 50 male and 50 female drivers arriving at a car park if the type of car they are driving is petrol, diesel or electric. The two-way table shows some
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q5 (9 marks): (a) Explain what is meant by a simple random sample. The manager of a health centre is reviewing the amount of time allowed for each patient to be seen by a doc
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q6 (6 marks): A garden centre has a register of 400 loyalty card members. The owner of the garden centre wants to find out information about the distribution of the amount of
- 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, Q3 (7 marks): John and Susan are investigating films. John wants to find out the favourite type of film of the students at his school. Susan wants to find out which type of f
- 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, Q10 (7 marks): John and Susan are investigating films. John wants to find out the favourite type of film of the students at his school. Susan wants to find out which type of f
- November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q6 (8 marks): Emily and Jess work in the head office of a chain of restaurants. The menu in all of the restaurants has recently been changed. Emily and Jess have been asked t
- November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q9 (6 marks): A construction company employs three types of employee: builders, carpenters and electricians. The table gives the number of each type of employee. Type of empl
- November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (5 marks): Ben is investigating how far people travel to work each day. He asks the people in his office how far, in miles, they travel to work each day. The grouped frequ
- November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q14 (6 marks): A firm produces pottery. The firm produces 1000 plates each week. The manager of the firm wants to take a systematic sample of 5% of the plates to check for fau
- November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q1 (4 marks): A presenter wants to get feedback on a lecture that she gave. There were 467 students at the lecture. The presenter plans to give a questionnaire to a sample of
- November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q7 (10 marks): Reeta read a report that said that these days more 18 to 24 year olds find out what is happening in the news from social media than find out by watching TV. She
- November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q1 (4 marks): Jon is investigating the colour of the eyes of all the students at his school. He recorded the colour of the eyes of a sample of 20 students in his class. 12 10
- November 2020, Paper 1 Foundation, Q10 (4 marks): A presenter wants to get feedback on a lecture that she gave. There were 467 students at the lecture. The presenter plans to give a questionnaire to a sample of
- November 2020, Paper 2 Higher, Q4 (5 marks): Matthew is collecting information about road safety in his town. He wants to collect information from drivers who live in his town. Matthew plans to ask drivers
- November 2020, Paper 2 Foundation, Q7 (3 marks): Sue is interested to know how much time children in the UK spend doing chores around the house each week. She plans to ask a sample of 20 students at her school
- November 2020, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (9 marks): Mehmet wants to conduct an investigation about school meals at his school. He wants to take a sample of students from his school. (a) Write down a sampling fram
- June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q3 (7 marks): The table gives information about the numbers of students from different types of schools who applied to Cambridge University in 2016 Applications in 2016 Type
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q7 (4 marks): Mike owns a shop. He wants to collect information about the types of games liked by people in his town. The following list gives the information he is going to
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q13 (7 marks): The table gives information about the numbers of students from different types of schools who applied to Cambridge University in 2016 Applications in 2016 Type
- June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q1 (5 marks): At a university, 70% of students are undergraduates and 30% of students are postgraduates. Amy and Robert want to do a survey. Amy decides to use simple random
- June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q7 (11 marks): Susie is investigating the amount of time students at her school spend watching television. She selects a random sample of 50 students from her school and asks
- June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (5 marks): At a university, 70% of students are undergraduates and 30% of students are postgraduates. Amy and Robert want to do a survey. Amy decides to use simple random
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