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Broad Topics > Stage 5 Statistics Mapping Document > SM - Discrete RVs

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Maximum Scattering

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Your data is a set of positive numbers. What is the maximum value that the standard deviation can take?

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Spread

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3

Given the mean and standard deviation of a set of marks, what is the greatest number of candidates who could have scored 100%?

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Distribution Differences

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

How could you compare different situation where something random happens ? What sort of things might be the same ? What might be different ?

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Introducing Distributions

Stage: 4 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

When five dice are rolled together which do you expect to see more often, no sixes or all sixes ?

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Distribution Maker

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

This tool allows you to create custom-specified random numbers, such as the total on three dice.

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Data Matching

Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Use your skill and judgement to match the sets of random data.


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