Maths Mayfield High School Data Handling
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I have been presented with data of secondary nature, about a school named Mayfield high school. This is table shows the number of pupils. 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 There 1183 students in this high school, and they have carried out several surveys, and put information on every single students into their own record on a database. The database contains several kinds of information, for example, name, age, year group, IQ, weight, height, eye colour, hair colour, test results, etc. The variations I have chosen to follow for my coursework are: 1. The relationship between height and weight Keeping in mind that there are 1183 students, I cannot provide these enquiries onto each pupil. I must take a suitable sample. Sampling helps to pick and choose some data needed to gain a result. Here are the methods available: Year group Total number of students Number students to be taken 7 282 282/1183 x 100 = 24 8 270 270/1183 x 100 =...

