Distinguishing if a Relationship Exists or Can be Established between the Height and Weight of Students Ages 12-16

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Distinguishing if a Relationship Exists or Can be Established between the Height and Weight of Students Ages 12-16

The aim of this investigation is to distinguish if a relationship

exists or can be established between the height and weight of students

ageing from 12 yrs to 16 yrs in year groups 7 to 11 in a mixed in a

boys and girls school. To execute this investigation I have to

acquire information from Mayfield School survey, this will provide me

with the relevant data which will be interrogated and analysed to

investigate the hypothesis.

Prediction

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The hypothesis for this investigation, in relation to the aim, is that

the taller the person the heavier their body weight for both boys and

girls. But that this proportion is different between girls and boys.

The ratio of weight to height is lower for girls than for boys. This

overall prediction may show anomalies which may contradict the

hypothesis.

Method

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The method used in this investigation will consist of the following

processes.;

1. Firstly I will gather the relevant information from the Mayfield

survey and put the data into order for every year group by gender.

The summary results are shown in the Table 1

Year Group

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Number of boys

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Number of girls

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Total

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7

151

131

282

8

145

125

270

9

118

143

261

10

106

94

200

11

84

86

170

Total number of pupils

1183

Ta...

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...ve correlation apart from

one year where we could say that we were shown negative correlation,

year 9 males did not fit the general term where we have someone that

is 1.55m tall and weights 67kg (approx) and someone who is 1.80m and

weights 42kg (approx) this results in a negative gradient.

I later went on to see if there was a relationship between every

female and every male, I found that there was stronger correlation

within female as every pupil was close and compact and there was a

fairly strong correlation within boys but still a couple of pupils did

not fit the trend.

A larger sample would provide a greater level of confidence in the

analysis as relying upon a random selection can only provide a certain

level of mathematically based confidence

All my work was carried out using Microsoft Word and Excel.

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