CAIE S1 2013 November — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2013
SessionNovember
TopicData representation
TypeDraw box plot from raw data

4 The following are the house prices in thousands of dollars, arranged in ascending order, for 51 houses from a certain area.
253270310354386428433468472477485520520524526531535
536538541543546548549551554572583590605614638649652
666670682684690710725726731734745760800854863957986
  1. Draw a box-and-whisker plot to represent the data. An expensive house is defined as a house which has a price that is more than 1.5 times the interquartile range above the upper quartile.
  2. For the above data, give the prices of the expensive houses.
  3. Give one disadvantage of using a box-and-whisker plot rather than a stem-and-leaf diagram to represent this set of data.