Edexcel S1 2008 June — Question 2

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2008
SessionJune
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeInterpret or analyse given back-to-back stem-and-leaf

2. The age in years of the residents of two hotels are shown in the back to back stem and leaf diagram below. Abbey Hotel \(8 | 5 | 0\) means 58 years in Abbey hotel and 50 years in Balmoral hotel Balmoral Hotel
(1)20
(4)97511
(4)983126(1)
(11)999976653323447(3)
(6)9877504005569(6)
\multirow[t]{3}{*}{(1)}85000013667(9)
6233457(6)
7015(3)
For the Balmoral Hotel,
  1. write down the mode of the age of the residents,
  2. find the values of the lower quartile, the median and the upper quartile.
    1. Find the mean, \(\bar { x }\), of the age of the residents.
    2. Given that \(\sum x ^ { 2 } = 81213\) find the standard deviation of the age of the residents. One measure of skewness is found using $$\frac { \text { mean - mode } } { \text { standard deviation } }$$
  3. Evaluate this measure for the Balmoral Hotel. For the Abbey Hotel, the mode is 39 , the mean is 33.2 , the standard deviation is 12.7 and the measure of skewness is - 0.454
  4. Compare the two age distributions of the residents of each hotel.