June 2022 Paper 3 Q6

EdexcelCurrent spec9 marksIncludes hypothesis testingCorrelation & Regression

6. Anna is investigating the relationship between exercise and resting heart rate.
She takes a random sample of 19 people in her year at school and records for each person

  • their resting heart rate, \(h\) beats per minute
  • the number of minutes, \(m\), spent exercising each week

Her results are shown on the scatter diagram.

Scatter diagram of h (60 to 80) against m (0 to 400) for 19 people: h falls steeply from about 76 at small m to about 64 by m = 120, then levels off at about 62 to 65 for m up to about 360
(a) Interpret the nature of the relationship between \(h\) and \(m\) (1)

Anna codes the data using the formulae

\[\begin{gathered}x = \log_{10} m\\ y = \log_{10} h\end{gathered}\]

The product moment correlation coefficient between \(x\) and \(y\) is \(-0.897\)

(b) Test whether or not there is significant evidence of a negative correlation between \(x\) and \(y\)
You should
  • state your hypotheses clearly
  • use a 5% level of significance
  • state the critical value used
(3)

The equation of the line of best fit of \(y\) on \(x\) is

\[y = -0.05x + 1.92\]
(c) Use the equation of the line of best fit of \(y\) on \(x\) to find a model for \(h\) on \(m\) in the form\[h = am^k\]where \(a\) and \(k\) are constants to be found. (5)