Measures of location and spread: OCR A‑Level Maths questions
OCR A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 2.02.2 Measures of location and spread, 2018–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available. Add MadAsMaths questions to your practice, or browse them separately by topic and difficulty.
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- June 2025, Paper 2, Q9 (11 marks): Some students in a year-group took two tests, Test 1 and Test 2. The maximum mark in each test was 120. The students’ marks are illustrated in the cumulative fr
- June 2025, AS Paper 1, Q9 (7 marks): Sasha collected data from 11 students about the time they spent on computer games during the previous week and their marks in a test. The results are represente
- June 2024, AS Paper 1, Q11 (7 marks): A biased six-sided dice is thrown several times. The results are shown in the table, where a is a constant. Score x 1 2 3 4 5 6 Frequency f 1 3 10 9 0 a You are
- June 2023, AS Paper 1, Q7 (5 marks): (a) Two real numbers are denoted by a and b. (i) Write down expressions for the following. • The mean of the squares of a and b • The square of the mean of a an
- June 2023, AS Paper 1, Q10 (9 marks): The masses of a random sample of 120 boulders in a certain area were recorded. The results are summarized in the histogram. Frequency density 35 40 50 55 60 65
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q9 (14 marks): The heights, in centimetres, of a random sample of 150 plants of a certain variety were measured. The results are summarised in the histogram. Frequency density
- June 2022, AS Paper 1, Q8 (4 marks): A random sample of 10 students from a college was chosen. They were asked how much time, x hours, they spent studying, and how much money, £y, they earned, in a
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q11 (9 marks): As part of a research project, the masses, m grams, of a random sample of 1000 pebbles from a certain beach were recorded. The results are summarised in the tab
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q8 (6 marks): The stem-and-leaf diagram shows the heights, in centimetres, of 17 plants, measured correct to the nearest centimetre. 5 5 7 9 9 6 3 4 5 5 5 9 9 7 4 5 7 9 9 8 9
- June 2019, AS Paper 1, Q9 (4 marks): The table shows information about the number of days absent last year by students in class 2A at a certain school. Number of More 0 1 2 to 4 5 to 10 11 to 20 21
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