Mastering Histograms

Mathematics
GCSE Foundation
11 questions
~22 mins
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A worksheet covering Histograms for GCSE Foundation students, focusing on understanding and applying the concept of histograms in probability and statistics.

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Mastering Histograms

Subject: MathematicsGrade: GCSE Foundation
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Practice Questions

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1.
The histogram shows the number of students in different height ranges. What is the total number of students?
[2 marks]
2.
Identify the class interval with the highest frequency from the histogram.
[2 marks]
3.
Calculate the class width for the histogram's intervals.
[3 marks]
4.
Estimate the number of students with heights between 150cm and 160cm.
[2 marks]
5.
What is the total area of the histogram if each unit on the y-axis represents 1 student?
[3 marks]
6.
If the histogram is scaled so that the height of 1 unit on the y-axis equals 2 students, what is the new total area?
[3 marks]
7.
Explain why histograms are useful for representing data distributions.
[4 marks]
8.
A histogram depicts the ages of participants in a survey. If the class interval 20-30 has a frequency of 12, what does this tell you about the data?
[2 marks]
9.
Using the histogram data, estimate the median age group.
[3 marks]
10.
A new data set shows increased frequency in the 70-80 class interval. How might this affect the histogram's shape?
[4 marks]
11.
Describe one advantage of using histograms over bar charts for frequency data.
[3 marks]

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