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CAIE A-Level Mathematics AS 5.1.3 Averages and Spread Questions

Practise finding and comparing medians, quartiles, interquartile ranges and means from data.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Mathematics 9709
Level
AS

Exam points

  • calculate medians, quartiles and interquartile ranges
  • compare location and spread between distributions
  • choose mean or median as a suitable summary of data

CAIE A-Level Mathematics AS 5.1.3 Averages and Spread Questions question 1

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The times taken, in seconds, by 15 members of each of two swimming clubs, the Penguins and the Dolphins, to swim 50 metres are shown in the following table.

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Hence state one difference between the distributions of the times for the Penguins and the Dolphins.

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