1MA0 Higher November 2013 Paper 1 Q2

EdexcelHigherOld spec4 marksScatter Diagrams & Correlation

2 A publisher checks documents for errors.
He records the number of documents that are checked each day.
He also records the total number of errors in the documents each day.

The scatter graph shows this information.

Scatter graph of total number of errors (0 to 25) against number of documents checked (0 to 140)

On another day 90 documents are checked.
There is a total of 17 errors.

(a) Show this information on the scatter graph. (1)
(b) Describe the correlation between the number of documents checked and the total number of errors. (1)

One day 110 documents are checked.

(c) Estimate the total number of errors in these documents. (2)