Maths Statistics Coursework - Mayfield School Data

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Maths Statistics Coursework - Mayfield School Data

Louise Bishop

5A

Task Description and Specifying the problem and Plan.

Specify and discuss the Hypotheses

I will investigate the following statements. I was interested in how age would affect a number of factors and so I chose to investigate the age variable. I decided to investigate the following hypotheses:

* How does age affect height? You get taller as you get older

* How does age affect weight? You get heavier as you get older.

* How does age affect IQ? You get more intelligent as you get older.

I hope to be able to draw firm conclusions from these three hypotheses. I will also be interested to see the conclusions to the third hypotheses to see if you get more intelligent with age. As I thought about this, I realised that there is a subtle difference between IQ and exam results and so I decided to investigate an extra hypotheses.

* How does IQ affect exam results? A high IQ guarantees good exam performance.

I think this statement will be particularly interesting as I do not think that intelligence would