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Introduction: What is my investigation about? My second coursework for my Mathematics GCSE course is based on statistics. I have been provided with data for Mayfield High School. Mayfield is a fictitious High School but the data is based on a real school. Mayfield has 1183 students from years 7 to 11. The data that is provided on each student includes, Name, Age, Year Group, IQ, Weight, Height, Hair Colour, Eye colour, Distance from home to school, usual method of travel to school, number of brothers and sisters, key stage 2 results in English, Mathematics and Science. Year Group Number of Boys Number of Girls Total 7 151 131 282 8 145 125 270 9 118 143 261 10 106 94 200 11 84 86 170 Total 604 579 1183 This is the data given to us on the main question sheet. We had to go and retrieve the data for each pupil from the schools network in order for us to carry out the investigation. There are a number of possible lines of enquiries that we could carry out. For example: 1. the...

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