Edexcel S1 — Question 6

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicData representation
TypeDraw histogram then perform calculations

6. A cinema recorded the number of people at each showing of each film during a one-week period. The results are summarised in the table below.
Number of peopleNumber of showings
1-4036
41-6020
61-8033
81-10024
101-15036
151-20039
201-30052
  1. Draw a histogram on graph paper to illustrate these data.
  2. Calculate estimates of the median and quartiles of these data.
  3. Use your answers to part (b) to show that the data is positively skewed.