Question 15

(a) Five female and seven male teachers applied for 4 vacancies in a Junior High School. The teachers are equally qualified. Find the number of ways of employing the 4 teachers, if : (i) there is no restriction ; (ii) at least 2 of them are females.

(b) The table shows the positions awarded to 7 contestants by Judges X and Y in a competition.

Contestant P Q R S T U V
Judge X 2 7 1 3 6 5 4
Judge Y 4 6 2 3 1 1 5

(i) Calculate, correct to one decimal place, the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

(ii) Interpret your answer in b(i) above.

 

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Exam body
WAEC
Subject
Further Mathematics
Year
2008
Question no.
#15
Type
Theory

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