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CAPE Applied Mathematics Unit 1 · 2008 (second paper) · Paper 2 · Question 1(a)(i)

A table records the daily newspaper production (in thousands) over a week. An issue arose where page 2 was only partially printed.

Give THREE reasons for inspecting a sample of the printed newspapers rather than the entire population.

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  1. 1(a)(ii)State TWO differences between a cluster sample and a stratified random sample in this context.[4 marks]
  2. 1(a)(iii)Calculate to the nearest integer the number of papers to select from Monday's production using stratified random sampling, given a total sample size of 5000.[3 marks]
  3. 1(b)Construct a well-labelled pie chart representing the daily newspaper production, using a circle radius of 4 cm and angles rounded to the nearest whole degree.[6 marks]
  4. 1(c)(i)Calculate the mean daily newspaper production.[4 marks]
  5. 1(c)(ii)Calculate the standard deviation of the daily newspaper production.[5 marks]

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