Edexcel S1 — Question 4

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicData representation
TypeUse linear interpolation for median or quartiles

4. The ages of 300 houses in a village are recorded giving the following table of results.
Age (years)Number of houses
0 -36
20 -92
40 -74
60 -39
100 -14
200 -27
300-50018
Use linear interpolation to estimate for these data
  1. the median,
  2. the limits between which the middle \(80 \%\) of the ages lie. An estimate of the mean of these data is calculated to be 86.6 years.
  3. Explain why the mean and median are so different and hence say which you consider best represents the data.