School: Springer Memorial School

Candidate Name: Destiny Yarde

Candidate Number:
Contents
 PROJECT TITLE
This project seeks to compare the mean, median and modal height of 5th year
and ,1st year students at Springer Memorial Secondary School
PROBLEM STATEMENT
 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

A measuring tape was used to get an accurate measurement before the Bristol
Board was set up to get the height chart. Starting at 30cm ending at 184cm.The
unit of the charts were in 5’s. The chart was placed on the wall of the school. 80
students were measured, they placed the heel of their foot against the wall and
their body standing straight with their head up right. A pencil was used to
measure the top of their heads. We used the code 5001-5040 for the students in
the fifth year and 1001-1040 for the students in the first year. The height was
measured in cm.

Student Number Height (cm)

5001 163
5002 172
5003 171
5004 163
5005 158
5006 158
5007 164
5008 155
5009 173
5010 167
5011 157
5012 167
5013 159
5014 167
5015 174
5016 170
5017 166
5018 161
5019 169
5020 166
5021 164
5022 164
5023 160
5024 163
5025 163
5026 157
 5027 165
5028 168
5029 155
5030 157
5031 161
5032 160
5033 165
5034 174
5035 171
5036 163
5037 171
5038 170
5039 152
5040 163

Table 1: This table shows the height of 40 students from the Fifth Year.

Student Number Height (cm)

1001 160
1002 161
1003 158
1004 162
1005 147
1006 138
1007 147
1008 159
1009 163
1010 163
1011 172
1012 162
1013 166
1014 150
1015 144
1016 149
1017 163
1018 147
1019 162
1020 165
1021 165
1022 165
 1023 148
1024 161
1025 157
1026 159
1027 157
1028 148
1029 157
1030 154
1031 156
1032 103
1033 171
1034 158
1035 166
1036 163
1037 153
1038 159
1039 153
1040 146

Table 2: This table shows the height of 40 students from the First Year.
 PRESENTATION OF DATA
The mean, median, mode, modal category, range, and estimated mean for the
Fifth years.

Mean: 157
Median: 165
Mode: 163
Modal class: 160-164
Range: 19
Estimated mean: 157.25

Height Tally Frequency Midpoint Midpoint Cumulative

(cm) x Frequency
Frequency
150-154 | 1 152 152 0
155-159 |||| ||| 8 157 1256 1
160-164 |||| |||| || 12 162 1944 9
165-169 |||| |||| 9 167 1503 21
170-174 |||| |||| 10 172 1720 30

Table 3: This table shows grouped data representing the height tally and
frequency of the Fifth Year students
The mean, median, mode, modal category, range, and estimated mean for the
First years.
Mean: 164
Median: 165
Mode: 163
Modal class: 160-164
Range: 69
Estimated mean
Height Tally Frequency Midpoint Midpoint Cumulative
(cm) x Frequency
Frequency
135-139 | 1 137 137 0
140-144 | 1 142 142 1
145-149 |||| || 7 147 1029 2
150-154 |||| 4 152 608 9
155-159 |||| |||| 9 157 1413 13
160-164 |||| |||| | 11 162 1782 22
165-169 |||| 5 167 835 33
170-174 || 2 172 344 38

Table 4: This table shows grouped data representing the height, tally and
frequency of the First Year students.
 DATA ANALYSIS
When comparing the histograms we can see that both of the modal classes for
the fifth and first years are the same, 160-164cm. Also, for the frequencies on
the graphs are the same for the modal classes 150-154cm for the fifth years and
135-139,140-144 for the first years; 155-159cm for the first years and 165-
169cm for the fifth years.
For the frequency polygon the points on the graph are only in the same points
for 162. However, they have the same corresponding numbers such as
152,157,162,167,172,177. Concluding, they both end at the same position on
the x axis.
For the cumulative frequency the fifth years curve is exactly like the first years
only thing is it is shorter because the first years has three more class than the
fifths.
 CONCLUSION
In conclusion, the varied heights caused the graphs to have different shapes.