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Height and weight of pupils
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Mayfield High School - GCSE Maths Coursework Hypothesis: I believe that taller students will be heavier than shorter students. I also believe that males will be taller than females. I am investigating these topics because it is a common idea that this is true, and I am interested in proving or disproving them. Plan: To test my hypothesis I need to sample a certain number of school students. I intend to sample the school population of Mayfield High School, taking a percentage of the 1183 students. I am only taking a percentage of those 1183 to keep the data to a manageable extent. To sample this data, I will use a stratified sampling method, and then calculate different averages of the data, for example mode, median, range, to help demonstrate the typical student. I can also put the data into Box Plots and Scatter Diagrams. This will help to obtain the accuracy...
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