Additional Mathematics Work Project 2012

QUESTION 2

TITLE: HEALTHY DIET

PART I If you look around your class, you will notice that your classmates are different in terms of height, mass, shoe size etc. You probably would have expected most people to be around the average mass. Based on these studies, the ministry has collected data and interpreted it into statistical data for further action. Hence, briefly discuss (i) history about statistic, and (ii) application of statistic in everyday life.

PART II The Ministry of Health has done many studies on the effect of food sold in the school canteen on children. To support the government effort, you are required to run the project. This project required you to obtain the mass and height of 100 students in certain forms of your school. Based on the raw data collected, tabulate your data into a frequency table as below: Mass of students (kg) Tally Frequency

Table 1 a) Draw a histogram from the Table 1 and find the mode mass. b) Hence, draw another two histograms by changing to a smaller class intervals and increasing the number of the classes. i) Explain briefly, what do you observe as the class size decreases and the number of classes increases? ii) Find mode for every histogram that you have drawn and interpret it.

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PART III a) Using the data from Table 1, complete Table 2 below. Mass of students (kg) Upper boundary Frequency Cumulative frequency

Table 2 b) c) d) e) Hence, draw an ogive based on the data. From the ogive, find median, first quartile, third quartile and interquartile range. Without drawing an ogive, find the median, first quartile, third quartile and interquartile range. State the range and interquartile range. What is the different between the range and interquartile range? f) Calculate the mean, variance and standard deviations. Explain briefly why mean, variance and standard deviations are used in statistic to interpret data.

FURTHER EXPLORATION The body mass index, BMI =

mass (kg) gives an indication on the physical state of a height (m)xheight (m)

person as being underweight, normal, overweight or obese. BMI Categories Underweight Normal Overweight Obese i) BMI < 18.5 18.5 24.9 25 29.9 30

Calculate BMI for every student from the survey and classify them into categories as above. Hence calculate the percentage of each category. ii) Display the result on your school notice board as a guide for pupils to take care of their eating habits by practicing the moral values. iii) An obese person is more prone to develop diseases such as diabetes, stroke and heart attack. Comment on this statement. Suggest ways and strategies that a person can adopt to reduce or increase mass and live a healthier life.

REFLECTION While you were conducting the project, what have you learnt? What moral values did you practice? Represent your opinions or feelings.

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