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Comparing Data

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The median house price in Humbleton is $\$950000$$950000 with a mean price of $\$1000000$$1000000 and the median house price in Brockway is $\$950000$$950000 with a mean price of $\$880000$$880000.

a

Which town is most likely to have some very expensive houses?

Brockway

A

Humbleton

B
b

Which of these statements supports your answer?

mean $>$> median

A

mean $<$< median

B
Easy
< 1min

The beaks of two groups of bird are measured, in mm, to determine whether they might be of the same species.

Easy
4min

The ages of employees at two competing fast food restaurants on a Saturday night are recorded. Some statistics are given in the following table:

Easy
2min

Two Science classes, each with $20$20 students, were given a $10$10 question True/False test. The results for each class are shown below.

Medium
4min
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Outcomes

S5-1

Plan and conduct surveys and experiments using the statistical enquiry cycle:– determining appropriate variables and measures;– considering sources of variation;– gathering and cleaning data;– using multiple displays, and re-categorising data to find patterns, variations, relationships, and trends in multivariate data sets;– comparing sample distributions visually, using measures of centre, spread, and proportion;– presenting a report of findings

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