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Date November Example question Marks available 2 Reference code EXN.2.SL.TZ0.1
Level Standard Level Paper Paper 2 Time zone Time zone 0
Command term Justify Question number 1 Adapted from N/A

Question

A teacher is concerned about the amount of lesson time lost by 8 students through arriving late at school. Over a period of 2 weeks he records the total number of minutes they are late. He also asks them how far they live from school. The results are shown in the table below.

Which of the correlation coefficients would you recommend is used to assess whether or not there is an association between total number of minutes late and distance from school? Fully justify your answer.

Markscheme

Spearman’s rank correlation should be used         A1

Because the product moment correlation coefficient is distorted by an outlier.         R1

 

Note: Do not award A1R0

  

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Syllabus sections

Topic 4—Statistics and probability » SL 4.4—Pearsons, scatter diagrams, eqn of y on x
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