Question 5 — IGCSE 0580 Oct/Nov 2023 Paper 43
Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics 0580, Extended tier, calculator. Topic: Statistics · Frequency density. Worth 14 marks.
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5 Indira records the time taken for workers in her company to travel to work.
The table and the histogram each show part of this information.
Time (t minutes) 0 1 t G 10 10 1 t G 25 25 1 t G 40 40 1 t G 60 60 1 t G 80
Frequency 57 38 12
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3
Frequency
2
density
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0
t
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Time (minutes)
(a) Complete the table and the histogram.
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(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean time.
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(c) Rashid says:
‘The longest time that any of these workers take to travel to work is 80 minutes.’
Give a reason why Rashid may be wrong.
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(d) Indira picks three workers at random from those who take longer than 25 minutes to travel to
work.
Calculate the probability that one worker takes 60 minutes or less and the other two each take
more than 60 minutes.
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