CAIE S1 2009 November — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2009
SessionNovember
TopicMeasures of Location and Spread
TypeFind median and quartiles from stem-and-leaf diagram

4 A library has many identical shelves. All the shelves are full and the numbers of books on each shelf in a certain section are summarised by the following stem-and-leaf diagram.
33699
467
50122
600112344444556667889
7113335667899
80245568
9001244445567788999
Key: 3 | 6 represents 36 books
  1. Find the number of shelves in this section of the library.
  2. Draw a box-and-whisker plot to represent the data. In another section all the shelves are full and the numbers of books on each shelf are summarised by the following stem-and-leaf diagram.
    212222334566679\(( 13 )\)
    301112334456677788\(( 15 )\)
    4223357789
    Key: 3 | 6 represents 36 books
  3. There are fewer books in this section than in the previous section. State one other difference between the books in this section and the books in the previous section.