CAIE S1 2010 June — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2010
SessionJune
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeConstruct stem-and-leaf then find median and quartiles

2 The numbers of people travelling on a certain bus at different times of the day are as follows.
17522316318
22142535172712
623192123826
  1. Draw a stem-and-leaf diagram to illustrate the information given above.
  2. Find the median, the lower quartile, the upper quartile and the interquartile range.
  3. State, in this case, which of the median and mode is preferable as a measure of central tendency, and why.