OCR S1 2012 June — Question 3

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2012
SessionJune
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeFind median and quartiles from stem-and-leaf diagram

3 The test marks of 14 students are displayed in a stem-and-leaf diagram, as shown below.
\includegraphics[max width=\textwidth, alt={}, center]{e23cb28b-49e5-436a-942d-e6320029c634-2_234_261_1425_482} Key: 1 | 6 means 16 marks
  1. Find the lower quartile.
  2. Given that the median is 32 , find the values of \(w\) and \(x\).
  3. Find the possible values of the upper quartile.
  4. State one advantage of a stem-and-leaf diagram over a box-and-whisker plot.
  5. State one advantage of a box-and-whisker plot over a stem-and-leaf diagram.