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5 marksDevelopment and Under-development

CAPE Geography Unit 2 · 2005 · Paper 2 · Question 1(c)(ii)

Refer to Table 1, showing GDP per capita for selected countries in 2002.

What is the advantage of using the interquartile range rather than the range to describe the distribution in (c)(i)?

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  1. 1(a)Describe the distribution of natural vegetation on the map extract between eastings 00 and 16 and northings 34 and 55.[15 marks]
  2. 1(b)(i)Identify FIVE types of agricultural activity on the map extract.[5 marks]
  3. 1(b)(ii)Account for the location of ONE of the agricultural activities identified in (b)(i).[3 marks]
  4. 1(b)(iii)Identify possible sources of water pollution along the Morant River and its tributary, the Negro River.[7 marks]
  5. 1(c)(i)a)For the distribution presented in Table 1, calculate the range.[2 marks]
  6. 1(c)(i)b)For the distribution presented in Table 1, calculate the median.[2 marks]
  7. 1(c)(i)c)For the distribution presented in Table 1, calculate the mean.[2 marks]
  8. 1(c)(i)d)For the distribution presented in Table 1, calculate the interquartile range.[4 marks]

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