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Statistics Short Problems - Age 14-16



This is part of our collection of Short Problems.

You may also be interested in our longer problems on Statistics - Stage 4.

Printable worksheets containing selections of these problems are available here

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Mean Balance

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Given information about the mean, can you work out the missing numbers?

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Beta Rovers

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the mode and median number of goals scored by Beta Rovers?

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Average Discovery

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Find the missing number if the mean, median and mode are all the same.

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Partial Means

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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From the mean of 64 numbers, and the mean of the first 36 of these numbers, can you work out the mean of the last 28 numbers?

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Ladybird Football Team

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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The ladybird squad members have an average of 12 spots each. How many spots does the pine ladybird have?

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A Mean Calculation

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What is the mean of this set of numbers?

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Smallest Range

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What is the smallest possible range that these 4 integers could have?

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Maximum Mean

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What is the largest that the mean of these numbers could be?

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Driving Test

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Which driving test centre has the highest pass rate?

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Sample

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you match the samples to the populations?

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Gamma City

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the mode and median number of goals scored by Gamma City?

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Algebraic Average

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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The mean of three numbers x, y and z is x. What is the mean of y and z?

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Dopey Measurement

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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How does Snow White need to change her result after the mix-up?

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Equal Means

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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What value of x makes the mean of the first three numbers in this list equal to the mean of the other four?

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Acceptance Rate

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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The mean number of students has changed, so how many students applied to a school?

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Mean Median

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you work out the median weight of these children from the given means?

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Pay Attention

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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If some of the audience fell asleep for some of this talk, what was the average proportion of the talk that people heard?

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Changing Averages

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Find the value of $m$ from these statements about a group of numbers

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Very Average

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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If each number in this list is the average of the two numbers before it, what is the value of a?

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Jewellery Boxes

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find the value of the jewels?

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Prize Pony

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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When Helen moved her favourite pony from one stable to another, the average value of the horses in each stable increased by £10000. What is the total value of all the ponies?

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Possible Range

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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The median of a set of five positive integers is one more than the mode and one less than the mean. Can you find the largest range possible?