For many students, exams questions on areas of Pure Mathematics will be most familiar. However, the applied topics provide a brilliant chance to increase the number of questions you can attempt come the big day. Here, you are invited to review the important concepts you will need to be able to employ to tackle STEP and other advanced mathematics examinations Statistics questions and read
through some hints and tips, before finally having a go at some exams questions yourself.

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Statistics in exams: discrete and continuous random variables
What do you need to know about discrete and continuous random variables to tackle STEP and other advanced mathematics examinations Statistics?

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Statistics in exams: hypothesis testing
Here you'll read about how to use your knowledge of distributions to test hypotheses.

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Given a probability density function find the mean, median and mode of the distribution.


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What's your mean?
Can you work out the means of these distributions using numerical
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STEP stats questions with hints
Selection of STEP Statistics questions with hints for students to undertake as part of the Statistics STEP Prep Module.