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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 GCE

Thursday 23 May 2024
Afternoon Paper
reference 8MA0/21
Mathematics
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Advanced Subsidiary
PAPER 21: Statistics

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Mathematical Formulae and Statistical Tables (Green), calculator

Candidates may use any calculator allowed by Pearson regulations. Calculators

must not have the facility for symbolic algebra manipulation, differentiation and
integration, or have retrievable mathematical formulae stored in them.
Instructions
•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.

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If pencil is used for diagrams/sketches/graphs it must be dark (HB or B).
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,

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centre number and candidate number.
Answer all questions and ensure that your answers to parts of questions are clearly labelled.
Answer the questions in the spaces provided

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– there may be more space than you need.
You should show sufficient working to make your methods clear.

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Answers without working may not gain full credit.
Values from statistical tables should be quoted in full. If a calculator is used instead of

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tables the value should be given to an equivalent degree of accuracy.
Inexact answers should be given to three significant figures unless otherwise stated.

•• A booklet ‘Mathematical Formulae and Statistical Tables’ is provided.

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The total mark for this part of the examination is 30. There are 5 questions.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
Advice
•• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.

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Try to answer every question.
If you change your mind about an answer, cross it out and put your new answer and any

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1. A coach recorded the heights of some adult rugby players and found the following
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 Median = 1.85 m
 Range = 0.28 m
 Interquartile range = 0.11 m
The coach also noticed that
• the height of the shortest player is 1.72 m
• 25% of the players’ heights are below the height of a player whose
height is 1.81 m
Draw a box and whisker plot to represent this information on the grid below.
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2. Keith is studying the variable Daily Mean Wind Direction, in degrees, from the large
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Keith summarised the data for Camborne from 1987 into 4 directions A, B, C and D
representing North, South, East and West in some order.

Direction A B C D

Frequency 22 48 56 58

(a) Using your knowledge of the large data set state, giving a reason, which direction
A represents.
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The entry for Hurn on 27th September 1987 was 999
(b) State, giving a reason, what Keith should do with this value.
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3. Customers in a shop have to queue to pay.

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information about the time, x minutes, spent in the queue by each of 112 customers
one day.

Time in queue (x minutes) Frequency

1–2 64

2–3

3–4 13

4–6

6–8 3

No customer spent less than 1 minute or longer than 8 minutes in the queue.
(a) Complete the table.
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(b) Complete the histogram.
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Ting decides to model the frequency density for these 112 customers by a curve
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(c) Find the value of k
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4. The random variable X ~ B(27, 0.35)

(a) Find (i) P(X = 10)

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(ii) P(12  X < 15)
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Historical records show that the proportion of defective items produced by a machine
is 0.12
Following a maintenance service of the machine, a random sample of 60 items is taken
and 3 defective items are found.
(b) Carry out a suitable test to determine whether the proportion of defective items
produced by the machine has decreased following the maintenance service.
You should state your hypotheses clearly and use a 5% level of significance.
(4)
(c) Write down the p-value for your test in part (b)
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5. A biased 4-sided spinner has the numbers 6, 7, 8 and 10 on it.

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has the following probability distribution,

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P(X = x) 0.5 0.2 q q

where q is a probability.
(a) Find the value of q
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Karen spins the spinner repeatedly until she either gets a 7 or she has taken 4 spins.
(b) Show that the probability that Karen stops after taking her 3rd spin is 0.128
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The random variable S represents the number of spins Karen takes.
(c) Find the probability distribution for S
(4)
The random variable N represents the number of times Karen gets a 7
(d) Find P(S > N)
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