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❖ HISTOGRAM ……………………………………..………………….. 1 - 37

❖ CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY……………………………………… 38 - 81

❖ STEM AND LEAF ……………………………………….……….... 82 - 129

❖ MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY & VARIATION……… 130 - 165

❖ PROBABILITY………………………...………………………….. 166 - 275

❖ PERMUTATION & COMBINATION …………...……………….. 276 - 363

❖ PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION………………………….……... 364 - 442

❖ BINOMIAL & GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION…...……………... 443 - 522

❖ NORMAL DISTRIBUTION………..……………………………... 523 - 641

 List MF19
List of formulae and statistical tables

Cambridge International AS & A Level

Mathematics (9709) and Further Mathematics (9231)

For use from 2020 in all papers for the above syllabuses.

CST319

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Summary statistics
For ungrouped data:

Σx Σ( x − x ) 2 Σx 2
x= , standard deviation = = − x2
n n n
For grouped data:

Σxf Σ( x − x ) 2 f Σx 2 f
x= , standard deviation = = − x2
Σf Σf Σf

Discrete random variables

E( X ) = Σxp , Var( X ) = Σx 2 p − {E( X )}2
For the binomial distribution B(n, p) :

n
pr =   p r (1 − p) n − r , µ = np , σ 2 = np(1 − p )
r
For the geometric distribution Geo(p):
1
pr = p(1 − p) r −1 , µ=
p
For the Poisson distribution Po(λ )

λr
pr = e − λ , µ =λ , σ2 =λ
r!

Continuous random variables

∫
E( X ) = x f( x) dx , ∫
Var( X ) = x 2 f( x) dx − {E( X )}2

Sampling and testing

Unbiased estimators:

Σx Σ( x − x ) 2 1  2 ( Σx ) 2 
x= , s2 = =  Σx − 
n n −1 n −1 n 

Central Limit Theorem:

 σ2 
X ~ N  µ, 
 n 

Approximate distribution of sample proportion:

 p (1 − p) 
N  p, 
 n 

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Sampling and testing

Two-sample estimate of a common variance:
Σ( x1 − x1 ) 2 + Σ( x2 − x2 ) 2
s2 =
n1 + n 2 − 2

Probability generating functions

G X (t ) = E(t X ) , E( X ) = G ′X (1) , Var( X ) = G ′′X (1) + G ′X (1) − {G ′X (1)}2

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9709/51/M/J/24; Q-3

301 The heights, in cm, of 200 adults in Barimba are summarised in the following
table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

(b) The interquartile range is R cm. Show that R is not greater than 15. [2]

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302 The times taken, in minutes, by 150 students to complete a puzzle are
summarised in the table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

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(b) Calculate an estimate for the mean time for these students to complete the
puzzle. [3]

(c) In which class interval does the lower quartile of the times lie? [1]

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9709/51/M/J/23; Q-5

303 The populations of 150 villages in the UK, to the nearest hundred,
are summarised in the table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

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(b) Write down the class interval which contains the median for this information.

[1]

(c) Find the greatest possible value of the interquartile range for the populations of
the 150 villages. [2]

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9709/51/O/N/23; Q-4

304 The times, to the nearest minute, of 150 athletes taking part in a charity run
are recorded. The results are summarised in the table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

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(b) Calculate estimates for the mean and standard deviation of the times taken by
the athletes. [5]

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9709/52/F/M/22; Q-3

305 At a summer camp an arithmetic test is taken by 250 children. The times taken,
to the nearest minute, to complete the test were recorded. The results are
summarized in the table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

(b) State which class interval contains the median. [1]

(c) Given that an estimate of the mean time is 61.05 minutes, state what feature of
the distribution accounts for the median and the mean being different. [1]

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9709/51/M/J/22; Q-3

306 The times taken to travel to college by 2500 students are summarised in the
table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

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From the data, the estimate of the mean value of 𝑡 is 31.44.

(b) Calculate an estimate of the standard deviation of the times taken to travel to
college. [3]

(c) In which class interval does the upper quartile lie? [1]

It was later discovered that the times taken to travel to college by two students
were incorrectly recorded. One student’s time was recorded as 15 instead of 5
and the other’s time was recorded as 65 instead of 75.

(d) Without doing any further calculations, state with a reason whether the estimate
of the standard deviation in part(b) would be increased, decreased or stay the
same. [1]

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9709/52/O/N/22; Q-4

307 The times taken, in minutes, to complete a word processing task by 250
employees at a particular company are summarised in the table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

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From the data, the estimate of the mean time taken by these 250 employees is
43.2 minutes.

(b) Calculate an estimate for the standard deviation of these times. [3]

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9709/51/M/J/21; Q-5

308 The times taken by 200 players to solve a computer puzzle are summarised in
the following table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

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(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean time taken by these 200 players. [2]

(c) Find the greatest possible value of the interquartile range of these times. [2]

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9709/53/O/N/21; Q-3

309 The times taken, in minutes, by 360 employees at a large company to travel
from home to work are summarized in the following table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [4]

(b) Calculate an estimate of the mean time taken by an employee to travel to work.
[2]

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9709/51/M/J/20; Q-7

310 The numbers of chocolate bars sold per day in a cinema over a period of 100
days are summarized in the following table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [5]

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(b) What is the greatest possible value of the interquartile range for the data? [2]

(c) Calculate estimates of the mean and standard deviation of the number of
chocolate bars sold. [4]

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9709/53/O/N/20; Q-7

311 A particular piece of music was played by 91 pianists and for each pianist, the
number of incorrect notes was recorded. The results are summarised in the
table.

(a) Draw a histogram to represent this information. [5]

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