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OCR MEI A-Level Maths past-paper questions on 2.2 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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All 21 questions on Measures of location and spread, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q11 (7 marks): Apples are sold in packets of 4. Ling and Sam are investigating the frequency, f, of the number of bruised apples in a packet, x. They each collect a random sam
- June 2025, AS Paper 2, Q10 (5 marks): Two market researchers, Riley and Ryan, are commissioned by a supermarket to investigate the total amount spent by shoppers in a single transaction. Riley is in
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q14 (8 marks): The pre-release material contains medical data for 103 women and 97 men. The boxplot represents the weights in kg of 101 of the women from the pre-release mater
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q15 (17 marks): Bottles of Fizzipop nominally contain 330 ml of drink. A consumer affairs researcher collects a random sample of 55 bottles of Fizzipop and records the volume o
- June 2024, AS Paper 2, Q3 (4 marks): A student conducts an investigation into the number of hours spent cooking per week by people who live in village A. The student represents the data in the cumu
- June 2024, AS Paper 2, Q10 (6 marks): The pre-release material contains information about the birth rate per 1000 people in different countries of the world. These countries have been classified int
- June 2023, AS Paper 2, Q1 (3 marks): A researcher collects data concerning the number of different social media platforms used by school pupils on a typical weekday. The frequency table for the dat
- June 2023, AS Paper 2, Q6 (6 marks): An app on my new smartphone records the number of times in a day I use the phone. The data for each day since I bought the phone are shown in the stem and leaf
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q9 (9 marks): At the beginning of the academic year, all the pupils in year 12 at a college take part in an assessment. Summary statistics for the marks obtained by the 2021
- June 2022, AS Paper 2, Q5 (6 marks): Ali collected data from a random sample of 200 workers and recorded the number of days they each worked from home in the second week of September 2019. These da
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q8 (4 marks): The Normal variable X is transformed to the Normal variable Y. The transformation is y a bx , where a and b are positive constants. = + You are given that X N 4
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q10 (9 marks): Ben has an interest in birdwatching. For many years he has identified, at the start of the year, 32 days on which he will spend an hour counting the number of b
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q13 (7 marks): At a certain factory Christmas tree decorations are packed in boxes of 10. The quality control manager collects a random sample of 100 boxes of decorations and
- November 2021, AS Paper 2, Q12 (8 marks): A manufacturer of steel rods checks the length of each rod in randomly selected batches of 10 rods. 100 batches of 10 rods are checked and x, the number of rods
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q4 (2 marks): Fig. 4 shows a cumulative frequency diagram for the time spent revising mathematics by year 11 students at a certain school during a week in the summer term. Ye
- November 2020, AS Paper 2, Q3 (8 marks): A researcher is conducting an investigation into the number of portions of fruit adults consume each day. The researcher decides to ask 50 men and 50 women to c
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q3 (3 marks): Fig. 3 shows the time Lorraine spent in hours, t, answering e-mails during the working day. The data were collected over a number of months. Time in hours, 0 t
- June 2019, Paper 2, Q5 (3 marks): Fig. 5 shows the number of times that students at a sixth form college visited a recreational mathematics website during the first week of the summer term. Numb
- June 2018, Paper 2, Q4 (2 marks): A survey of the number of cars per household in a certain village generated the data in Fig. 4. Number of cars 0 1 2 3 4 Number of households 8 22 31 27 7 Fig.
- June 2018, Paper 2, Q9 (5 marks): At the end of each school term at North End College all the science classes in year 10 are given a test. The marks out of 100 achieved by members of set 1 are s
- June 2018, AS Paper 2, Q7 (8 marks): Rose and Emma each wear a device that records the number of steps they take in a day. All the results for a 7-day period are given in Fig. 7. Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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