Height and Weight of Pupils
AO4 Coursework Mayfield High School HATCH END HIGH SCHOOL Mathematics GCSE Name: Daniel Desai Candidate number: 4073 Tutor Group: 10/18 Teacher: Mr J Quaye Date: 10/10/06 Planning Introduction In this project I will be investigating the heights and weights of pupils at Mayfield High School. Mayfield High School is not a real school, it is imaginary, and it has 1183 students altogether. The distributions of the pupils in every year are below: Year Group Number of Boys Number of Girls Total 7 51 31 282 8 45 25 270 9 18 43 261 0 06 94 200 1 84 86 70 The data I will be working with is from the Edexcel Internet Database and it is secondary data. Every student has received this data. The data is of the fictitious school called Mayfield High School. The data they have given for each pupil is their Name, Year group, IQ, Weight, Height, Hair colour, Eye colour, Distance from home to school, Usual method of travel to school, Number of brothers or sisters, Key stage 2 results in English, Mathematics and Science. I have preferred to use secondary data rather than primary data because it is more suitable; primary would take a very long time but it would be a higher degree of accuracy. The advantages of secondary data is it is easy to find and due to the short amount of time provided to complete this coursework it will be more suitable. I will not be