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AQA GCSE Statistics Foundation Tier Paper 2 — Free 45-Question AQA GCSE Practice Test

Q01A set of data is ordered from smallest to largest. What is the name given to the measure that is one quarter along th...Easy

Q02Look at these sets of data. Which data set has a different range to the others? A: 2, 4, 5, 5, 7, 8 B: 0, 5, 3, 6, 1,...Easy

Q03The probability that a biased coin lands on heads is 2/5. What is the probability that this coin lands on tails?Easy

Q04Which of these diagrams could be suitable for displaying raw discrete data?Easy

Q05.1The table shows the annual sales value (£ million) in the UK of different ways to buy music. Write down the value of ...Easy

Q05.3The graph shows the values for Downloads and some of the values for Streaming. Use the values for Streaming from the ...Medium

Q05.4Make two comments about the trends shown on the graph.Medium

Q06.1A vet keeps records of the mass and height of each animal he has registered. The table shows the masses and heights o...Easy

Q06.2The mean mass of these 9 Vizslas is 23 kg. Calculate their mean height.Medium

Q06.3Use the values from part 6(b) to help you draw a line of best fit on the diagram.Medium

Q06.4A new adult Vizsla dog comes to the vet. The dog has a mass of 25 kg. Estimate the height of this dog.Easy

Q06.5Another adult dog comes to the vet. It has a mass of 19 kg and a height of 38 cm. Is it likely to be a Vizsla? Give a...Medium

Q07.1The graph shows information about the UK's most popular social media in 2019. Which was the second most popular messa...Easy

Q07.2The population of the UK in 2019 was approximately 68 million. Simran said, "Nearly 55 million people used YouTube in...Medium

Q07.3Comment on this part of Simran's statement, "...and were on it every day.”Easy

Q08.1100 students go to London for a weekend on a school trip. On one afternoon, students can choose to go to a theatre (T...Medium

Q08.2One student is chosen at random. What is the probability that they go to the museum?Easy

Q09.1Sanders owns a chicken farm where the chickens can roam freely. He is investigating where the chickens tend to go in ...Medium

Q09.2Sanders draws this choropleth map to represent the number of chickens in each square. Write down three errors that Sa...Medium

Q10.1The pie chart shows information about how people voted in the Dartford area during the 2019 General Election. Which p...Easy

Q10.254 000 people are represented in the pie chart. The angle for the Labour sector is 120°. Work out how many of them vo...Medium

Q11.1The table shows information about the heights of a sample of 100 trees in a forest. Complete the table below to show ...Medium

Q11.2On the grid draw a cumulative frequency diagram for the data.Medium

Q11.3The cumulative frequency diagram below shows information about a sample of 100 trees in a large field. The shortest t...Hard

Q12.1Caro has plotted this scatter diagram to show the numbers of umbrellas she sold against the amount of rain that fell ...Easy

Q12.2The weather forecast for tomorrow suggests that there will be 20 mm of rain throughout the day. Caro says she can use...Easy

Q13In Vikram's village, there are 600 people. He has sampled 50 of them. 32 of this sample would like a gym to be built....Easy

Q14.2It is still possible to correctly work out the median number of cupcakes from the stem and leaf diagram. Work out thi...Medium

Q15.2Mumps rate = (Number of confirmed cases / Total population) × 1000. The population of England in 2011 was estimated b...Medium

Q16.1Here is an experiment which is designed to find the best trained dog out of Troy, Buddy, Bruno, Murphy and Bumble. Ea...Hard

Q16.2Give one reason why this experiment is unlikely to have high validity.Easy

Q17.1HS2 (High Speed 2) is a faster train service that will link major cities in England. Tom believes most people are aga...Easy

Q17.2Here is one of the questions from Tom's study. Write down two different problems with this question. Question: "How o...Medium

Q17.3Here is an open question from Tom's study: "How much do you earn? £____". Write down a problem with this question.Easy

Q17.4Tom reads that HS2 will link 29 stations. He decides to take a random sample of 5 of the stations where he can ask pe...Medium

Q17.5One of the stations Tom gets in his random sample is Manchester Piccadilly. To find opinions, he goes there one Satur...Easy

Q17.6What is good about Tom finding opinions in this way?Easy

Q17.7What is not so good about Tom finding opinions in this way?Easy

Q17.8Give a reason why Tom should also find opinions of people where HS2 will not have a station.Easy

Q17.9The Department of Transport produced this graph about HS2 in 2016 showing how journey times might change when HS2 is ...Easy

Q17.10Li Na says that the journey time between London and Manchester Piccadilly will be reduced by about an hour. Is Li Na ...Medium

Q17.11This table also shows information about reduced journey times from London. Work out the missing time and percentage i...Medium

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