2024 Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9 – 1) In Statistics (1ST0) Foundation Tier Paper 2F question paper and marking scheme (merged)

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Pearson Edexcel Level 1/Level 2 GCSE (9–1)
Monday 17 June 2024
Afternoon (Time: 1 hour 30 minutes) Paper
reference 1ST0/2F
Statistics
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PAPER 2
Foundation Tier


You must have: Total Marks
Ruler graduated in centimetres and millimetres, protractor,
pair of compasses, pen, HB pencil, eraser, scientific calculator.


Instructions

•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
centre number and candidate number.
•• Answer all questions.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
– there may be more space than you need.
•• Scientific calculators may be used.
You must show all your working out with your answer clearly identified
at the end of your solution.

Information

•• The total mark for this paper is 80.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.

Advice
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
• Try to answer every question.
• your answers if you have time at the end.
Check


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, Answer ALL questions.

Write your answers in the spaces provided.




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You must write down all the stages in your working.

1 David has 10 cards each with a single letter on it as shown.


A A A A A B B C D D


A card is picked at random.

(a) Underline the word from the list below that best describes the likelihood that the
card has a letter A on it.


impossible certain likely evens unlikely




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(1)

(b) Complete this sentence using two different letters.

Cards with the letters . ........... ............ .... and ..................... are equally likely to be picked.


(1)

(c) On the probability scale below, mark with a cross (×) the probability that the card
has a letter C on it.



0 1 1
2
(1)
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(d) On the probability scale below, mark with a cross (×) the probability that the card
has a letter A or a letter C on it.



0 1 1
2
(1)
(Total for Question 1 is 4 marks)



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, 2 Jenny is investigating how many days per week people use a gym.
She asks the 40 people in her fitness group how often they use the gym each week.
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Jenny draws this bar chart for her data.


9
8
7
6
Frequency
5
4
3
2
1
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Gym usage (days per week)
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One of these people is chosen at random.

(a) Find the probability that this person uses the gym exactly 2 days per week.



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(1)

(b) What is the modal number of days to use the gym each week?




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(1)
Jenny thinks that there are a lot of people in her fitness group who are exercising less
than 2 days per week as there is a total of 10 people who used the gym on 0 days or
1 day per week.

(c) Explain why Jenny might not be correct.

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(1)
(Total for Question 2 is 3 marks)


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, 3 Ben is researching information about the number of British swimming medals won at
the Olympics.




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Here are his results, giving the number of British swimming medals won at the
Olympics from 1900 to 2016

3 0 7 6 2 4 4 2 0
1 1 2 3 1 1 1 3 5
5 3 1 2 0 2 3 3 6
(Source: www.teamgb.com)

(a) Fill in the tally chart for Ben‟s results and complete the frequency column.


Number of Olympic medals won Tally Frequency

0

1




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2

3

4

5

6

7

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(b) Suggest a suitable diagram that could be used for Ben‟s results.
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(c) Write down the mode or modes.

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(1)

(d) Work out the median.



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(2)

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