In this data I will compare the heights and weights of pupils from year seven to year nine and males and females,

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Do the year seven and nine students from Mayfield high school who are taller weigh more?

In this coursework, I will be investigating if the height goes up when the weight goes up by looking at the data from the year seven and the nine students at Mayfield High school.

My hypothesis is taller people will weight more but obviously there will be a few exceptions as some people are tall and skinny and some are short and weigh more. In general, the taller people should weigh more than the shorter. I also expect that year nine students to be taller and weigh more than the year seven as they are older.
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I will need to collect data on heights and weights of from the years 7 and 9 students in Mayfield High School, to determine a population for my investigation. The information I have taken from the spreadsheet is made up data from a real school, Mayfield School. I have chosen this source of information as it is easily available, more accurate and it was the information that I needed. I will need to collect 30 pieces of data and I will ensure it is a fair sampling by choosing every fifth data.

In this data I will ...

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