Index Numbers
Canadian Winter
Standardised Rates
RPI, CPI, GDP
Smorgasbord
100
Taking 2012 as the base year, work out the index number for the share price of Mathcom in 2013.
105.60
100
What is the Canadian word for a gilet?
Vest
100
What is the crude birth rate in a country that has a population of 140,000 and 2,460 births.
18
100
What is the main difference between RPI and CPI?
RPI includes mortgage payments, but CPI doesn't
100
How many dots appear on a pair of dice?
42
200
Calculate the chain base index number for 2010, 2011 and 2012.
114.3, 104.2, 112
200
What is the Canadian word for a winter hat?
Toque
200
Ben says that in 2015 more babies were born in Australia than in the USA because Australia had the greater crude birth rate. Why is Ben's reasoning not correct?
This is only per 1000 people, we don't know the total populations
200
When is a country considered to be in a recession?
If GDP falls in 2+ consecutive quarters.
200
What is acrophobia a fear of?
Heights
300
The cost of stationery in 2011 was £670. Work out the cost of stationery in 2012
£697.47
300
What is the Canadian word for a sledge
Toboggan
300
Give an interpretation of the number 64 in the table.
For every 1000 people, 64 are between the ages of 60 and 69.
300
A country park has three levels of membership: 50% of members have bronze membership, 35% of members have silver membership, 15% of members have gold membership
Calculate the index number for bronze
103.1
300
What is the rarest and most expensive spice in the world by weight?
Saffron
400
Explain what the value 100.3 in the table represents
The price has increased by 0.3% from May to June
400
what day is the 'shortest' day of the year in Canada
21 December
400
In 2015, the total population of Barbados was 284 217. Work out the number of births in Barbados in 2015
3409
400
A country park has three levels of membership: 50% of members have bronze membership, 35% of members have silver membership, 15% of members have gold membership
Calculate the weighted index number
103.3
400
What is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters that reads the same backward as forward?
Palindrome
500
What is the record lowest temperature in Canada. I will give you +-5
-63oC
500
Calculate the standardised birth rate for all females in England and Wales in 2014
95.6
500
Calculate the weighted index number
116.2
500
How many faces does a Dodecahedron have?
12