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Bar charts & pie charts

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Every student at Ashbourne School and every student at Beckworth School named their favourite subject. The results were shown in two pie charts.

Ashbourne School has

400

students. Beckworth School has

250

students.

On both pie charts the sector for Science has an angle of

72°

.

(a) Work out the number of students at Ashbourne School who chose Science.

(b) Work out the number of students at Beckworth School who chose Science.

(c) Priya says: "The two sectors are the same size, so the same number of students chose Science at each school." Explain why Priya is wrong.

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The composite bar chart shows the number of tickets sold for each of three school plays. In every bar the lower section shows adult tickets and the upper section shows child tickets.

(a) Work out the number of child tickets sold for Play 3.

(b) Work out the total number of tickets sold for the three plays.

(c) Explain why this chart makes it harder to compare the numbers of child tickets across the three plays than a dual (comparative) bar chart would.

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Two-way tables

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Aisha asked

200

shoppers how they had travelled to the shops, and recorded their age group as well. She put her results into this two-way table.

	Under 25	25 or over	Total
Walked	$38$	$57$	$95$
Drove	$46$	$69$	$105$
Total	$84$	$116$	$200$

(a) Show that Aisha's table cannot be correct.

(b) All of the totals in Aisha's table are correct, and only one of the four numbers inside the table was recorded wrongly.

Work out the correct value of that number.

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180

people were asked whether they had read a particular book and whether they had seen the film of that book.

\frac{3}{5}

of the people had seen the film.

\frac{1}{4}

of the people who had seen the film had also read the book.

Altogether

40

of the people had read the book.

(a) Use this information to complete the two-way table.

	Read the book	Not read the book	Total
Seen the film
Not seen the film
Total			$180$

(b) Work out how many of the

180

people had read the book or had seen the film (or both).

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There are

240

students in Year 11 at a school. Each student studies exactly one of French, Spanish and German.

132

of the students are girls.

54

of the girls study French and

45

of the girls study German.

90

of the

240

students study French.

The number of boys who study Spanish is twice the number of boys who study German.

(a) Complete the two-way table.

	French	German	Total
Girls	$54$	$45$	$132$
Boys
Total	$90$		$240$

(b) Work out how many more students study Spanish than study German.

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Time series

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The time-series graph shows the number of new members who joined Fairfield Swimming Club in each quarter from 2023 to 2025.

Quarter 1 on the graph is the first quarter of 2023, quarter 5 is the first quarter of 2024 and quarter 9 is the first quarter of 2025.(a) Rob says: "The graph just goes up and down, so there is no overall trend."

Explain why Rob is wrong. You must refer to figures from the graph.

(b) Explain why this graph should not be used to predict the number of new members who will join in quarter 1 of 2040.

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A gift shop on a seaside promenade employs part-time staff. The time-series graph shows the number of part-time staff it employed in each quarter from 2023 to 2025.

Quarter 1 on the graph is the first quarter of 2023, quarter 5 is the first quarter of 2024 and quarter 9 is the first quarter of 2025.(a) Describe the seasonal variation shown by the graph.

(b) Chloe says: "The number of part-time staff the gift shop employs is increasing."

Is Chloe correct? You must give a reason for your answer.

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The table shows the electricity cost, in pounds, for a small factory in each quarter of 2023 and in the first three quarters of 2024.

Electricity cost (£)	Quarter 1	Quarter 2	Quarter 3	Quarter 4
2023	1420	980	910	1310
2024	1530	1060	970	—

The total electricity cost for the whole of 2024 was £4970.

(a) Work out the electricity cost for quarter 4 of 2024.

(b) The factory manager says: "In 2024 the cost fell from £1530 in quarter 1 to £970 in quarter 3, so our electricity is getting cheaper."

Explain why the manager may be wrong.

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