TUTORIAL

1. The stem and leaf diagram below shows the weights of 13 dogs.

(a) What is the mode?

(b) What is the range of the weights?
(c) What is the median weight?
(d) How many dogs weigh more than 35 kilograms?

2. The stem and leaf diagram below shows the number of goals scored by 20 football
teams
last season.

(a) What percentage of the teams scored more than 65 goals?

(b) What fraction of the teams scored between 40 and 50 goals? Give your answer in its
simplest form.
(c) What is the median number of goals scored?
(d) What is the mode?

3. Below are the heights of 20 flowers, in centimetres

25 30 19 42 35 33 37 37 29 26
29 42 38 33 34 33 28 49 32 33

Construct a stem and leaf diagram to represent the data.

4. Below are the percentages that 30 students achieved in a Statistics test.

88 70 60 49 48 55 56 81 65 61
77 51 52 61 60 56 56 45 35 59
67 66 53 55 71 59 54 44 57 61

Construct a stem and leaf diagram to represent the data.

5. The data shown below represents the number of hours that 25 part-time employees
worked at the amusement park during a randomly selected week in March. Construct a
stem-and-leaf plot for the data.

16 25 18 39 25 17 29 14 37
22 18 12 23 32 35 24 26
20 19 25 26 38 38 33 29

6. Construct a scatter plot for the data obtained in a study on the number of absences and
the final grades of seven randomly selected students from a Maths class.

Student Number of absences, x Final grade, y (%)

A 6 82
B 2 86
C 15 43
D 9 74
E 12 58
F 5 90
G 8 78

7. The table shows a number of students on a basketball team and the number of free
throws each student made during practice.

Based on the scatter plot, describes the relationship between the number of students
and the number of free throws each student made.
8. The table below shows the median salary for women who had completed a college
degree for the years 1989 to 1998.

Does there appear to be a relationship between year and salary?