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AQA GCSE Statistics Foundation Tier Paper 1 — Free 47-Question AQA GCSE Practice Test

Q01An ordinary fair dice is rolled. Circle the probability of rolling a 4.Easy

Q02What is the statistical name given to the removal or correction of apparently incorrect values from a table or spread...Easy

Q03Circle the word that completes this sentence correctly. This diagram shows data with a negative __________ .Easy

Q04Which of these sample sizes from a large population gives the most reliable sample? Choose your answer.Easy

Q05.1Antonio makes and sells flower displays. He keeps a record of each display he makes. Below is one of his completed re...Easy

Q05.2Using the record from the previous question, write down **one** quantitative variable.Easy

Q05.3Is your quantitative variable discrete or continuous? Tick a box.Easy

Q05.4The table shows the number of flowers in Antonio's most recent display. Represent the data in a pictogram. Key: [Symb...Medium

Q05.5The tally chart shows the number of flowers in a different display. Antonio says there are exactly twice as many rose...Easy

Q06.1Miss Wardle records information about homework completion for her class. How many males did **not** complete this pie...Easy

Q06.2What is the probability that a student, chosen at random, completed this piece of homework?Easy

Q06.3Miss Wardle says that males are nearly twice as likely to **not** complete homework compared to females. Show that th...Medium

Q06.4Despite the support of the data, Miss Wardle might not be correct. Why not?Easy

Q07The number of lambs born on each of the first 10 days in April are given. 8, 11, 9, 14, 12, 14, 10, 15, 14, 13 Circle...Easy

Q08.1The data show donations to a charity shop and the number of shoppers visiting the shop for each of 12 months in 2019....Medium

Q08.2Jorja is investigating **only** the number of shoppers visiting the shop each month. Comment on the appropriateness, ...Easy

Q09Danni records the number of bedrooms and the number of televisions in 11 houses. She has these data that she needs to...Easy

Q10.1Sol is investigating birth rates in different countries. He thinks that European countries have the lowest birth rate...Easy

Q10.2A map uses different shades of colour to show the population density in different regions of a country. What is the n...Easy

Q10.3A choropleth map shows that nearly all of the countries with the lowest birth rate category (6-10 births per 1000) ar...Easy

Q10.4Sol decides to find the actual birth rates for a selection of countries. He says, “This is primary data as it is me w...Easy

Q10.5Here is the list of countries and their birth rates found by Sol. He decides to check the value for Honduras as he th...Easy

Q10.6In fact, Sol had misread the Honduras value and it should have been 22.8. Use this value and the table to complete th...Medium

Q10.7Give **one** possible reason for the apparent huge differences between the birth rates for different countries.Easy

Q10.8The formula used to calculate a birth rate is: Birth rate = (number of live births recorded / total population) × 100...Medium

Q10.9Give **one** reason why the answer to part (f)(i) is an estimate.Easy

Q10.10Sol does more research and reads a few different articles. He writes a conclusion about the data he has used and the ...Easy

Q11Tate is going to play a game at a fair. The game has a 5 by 5 grid and behind some of the 25 squares are prizes. Tate...Medium

Q12A study finds a strong positive correlation between the number of ice creams sold and the number of shark attacks in ...Easy

Q13.1You will need to refer to the **Data Sheet** to answer this question. **Data Sheet - Table 1** Number of films releas...Medium

Q13.2Look at **Table 1** in the Data Sheet. Use the grid provided to draw a **percentage composite bar chart** for the two...Hard

Q13.3In Northtown, there is a multiscreen cinema, mainly showing popular films. Lopez is the manager of a new cinema about...Easy

Q13.4**Data Sheet - Table 2** Percentage of films shown at a Northtown multiscreen cinema. | Certificate | Percentage | |-...Easy

Q13.5Lopez concludes that no 18-certificate films were shown by the multiscreen cinema. Give **one** reason why Lopez migh...Easy

Q13.6Give **one** reason why Lopez might **not** be correct.Medium

Q14The pie chart shows information about the source of UK food in 2007. Write down **two** criticisms of the diagram.Medium

Q15.1Luton is an industrial town. The population pyramid shows the number of males living in Luton in 1851. The population...Medium

Q15.2The table shows the number of males and females in the 20 to 29 age group living in Luton in 1961. | Number of males ...Medium

Q16.1Natalie is selling her house. At an asking price of £135 000, she is advised that the house would definitely sell wit...Medium

Q16.2At £150 000, what is the risk that she will **not** sell her house within two months?Medium

Q16.3What assumption did you have to make in answering part (a)(ii)?Easy

Q16.4Using the information given, what is the minimum price for which the house will apparently **never** sell?Medium

Q16.5Give a reason why the house may actually sell at this minimum price.Easy

Q17.1The graph shows changes in private and public sector pay and the Consumer Price Index (CPI). What does CPI measure?Easy

Q17.2An index for public sector pay was 100 in Jan 2010. By May 2012, it had risen to 104.5. By what percentage, approxima...Easy

Q17.3Between Jan 2010 and May 2018, the index for private sector pay rose from 100 to 118. The index for public sector pay...Medium

Q17.4Jim says, “The index number for CPI is 120 to the nearest whole number for May 2018 with Jan 2010 as base. So the ind...Hard

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