plumiScatter diagrams and correlation: Edexcel GCSE Statistics questions
Every Edexcel GCSE Statistics exam question on 2e Scatter diagrams and correlation, 2019–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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All 31 questions on Scatter diagrams and correlation, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 1 Higher, Q4 (9 marks): Agatha is investigating the times taken in the 2022 Olympic Women’s Skiathlon race. There are two parts to the Skiathlon race. There is a 7.5 km classic stage a
- June 2025, Paper 1 Higher, Q6 (7 marks): Researchers wanted to know what kind of reduced‑fat cheese that customers liked best. They asked customers to rate 10 different cheeses and calculated an averag
- June 2025, Paper 1 Foundation, Q14 (3 marks): Some researchers wanted to find out how much agreement there was between experts in their rating of drinks. They asked 11 experts to rate the different drinks a
- June 2025, Paper 2 Higher, Q8 (7 marks): In world athletics, an athlete’s personal best results in different track and field events are recorded. Zara wants to compare a sample of athletes’ longest rec
- 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 2024, Paper 2 Higher, Q6 (9 marks): Researchers investigated the effect of changing land usage on the amount of surface runoff water for areas of land around Brandywine Creek. They recorded the ch
- June 2024, Paper 2 Higher, Q9 (10 marks): Researchers wanted to find a method to predict the height of ancient Egyptians based upon bones from their skeletons. They calculated the Pearson’s product mome
- June 2024, Paper 2 Foundation, Q8 (12 marks): Timur is investigating the heights and weights of rugby players. He collected data from the internet about the heights and weights of players from the Wales rug
- 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, Q5 (6 marks): A local arts festival has a needlecraft competition and a flower arranging competition. Mr Smith judges both competitions, giving each entry a rank. Mr Smith th
- June 2023, Paper 1 Higher, Q10 (7 marks): A study took place in the southeastern United States to find if there was a relationship between the snout-vent length, in cm, and the body weight, in grams, of
- June 2023, Paper 1 Foundation, Q5 (6 marks): Jim is investigating the relationship between air temperature and altitude. He has found data on the internet showing the average air temperature at different a
- June 2023, Paper 2 Higher, Q13 (6 marks): Indre is writing a report on the relationship between the income per person, in US dollars, and the life expectancy, in years, for different countries. She find
- June 2022, Paper 1 Higher, Q6 (9 marks): Gaby is researching the final position of a football team in the English Premier League and the mean value of all the players in the team. (a) Suggest a diagram
- 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, Q3 (11 marks): Irina is investigating whether the percentage of the population of a country living in urban areas has an effect on the life expectancy in that country. (a) Sug
- June 2022, Paper 2 Foundation, Q11 (11 marks): Irina is investigating whether the percentage of the population of a country living in urban areas has an effect on the life expectancy in that country. (a) Sug
- November 2021, Paper 1 Higher, Q10 (6 marks): Amelia wants to see if there is a relationship between the height of a female athlete and the time it takes her to run 100 metres. The table gives information c
- 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 2 Higher, Q3 (6 marks): Rachel collects data on the engine size (in litres) and the fuel economy during city driving (in miles per gallon) for each car in a sample of 61 cars of variou
- November 2021, Paper 2 Higher, Q13 (7 marks): A team of researchers investigated the time intervals between calls of tree frogs. They investigated two species of tree frog: the Italian tree frog and the Eur
- November 2021, Paper 2 Foundation, Q12 (6 marks): Rachel collects data on the engine size (in litres) and the fuel economy during city driving (in miles per gallon) for each car in a sample of 61 cars of variou
- November 2020, Paper 1 Higher, Q12 (5 marks): In a town music competition, 6 groups competed against each other. The table shows the marks awarded to each group by the invited independent judge. The table a
- November 2020, Paper 2 Higher, Q2 (10 marks): Mike is investigating whether or not there is a relationship between the distance from the nearest car park to a restaurant and the annual profit made by the re
- November 2020, Paper 2 Higher, Q8 (13 marks): Here is a scatter diagram. y O x The Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient and the Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient are each going to be calcu
- November 2020, Paper 2 Foundation, Q10 (10 marks): Mike is investigating whether or not there is a relationship between the distance from the nearest car park to a restaurant and the annual profit made by the re
- June 2019, Paper 1 Higher, Q12 (9 marks): Mr Singh collected data about the number of students in each of three classes in his school and the mean mark of each class in a science test. The table gives s
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q9 (7 marks): Naomi recorded the weight, in thousands of tons, and the maximum number of passengers, in hundreds, for 11 cruise ships. Naomi drew the scatter diagram below fo
- June 2019, Paper 1 Foundation, Q17 (5 marks): Mark is investigating how the total mileage, x miles, of a car affects its price, £y He has collected information about two models of car, model A and model B.
- June 2019, Paper 2 Higher, Q11 (7 marks): Gisele collected data about the age and the salary of each employee at a small company. She used statistical software to draw a scatter diagram for her data. (a
- June 2019, Paper 2 Foundation, Q13 (4 marks): A food critic was asked to compare six mince pies (labelled A to F) and to rank them in order of quality. Jacques wants to see if the price of a mince pie depen
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