CAIE S1 2016 November — Question 5 1 marks

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2016
SessionNovember
Marks1
TopicData representation
TypeDraw histogram then perform calculations

5 The tables summarise the heights, \(h \mathrm {~cm}\), of 60 girls and 60 boys.
Height of girls (cm)\(140 < h \leqslant 150\)\(150 < h \leqslant 160\)\(160 < h \leqslant 170\)\(170 < h \leqslant 180\)\(180 < h \leqslant 190\)
Frequency122117100
Height of boys \(( \mathrm { cm } )\)\(140 < h \leqslant 150\)\(150 < h \leqslant 160\)\(160 < h \leqslant 170\)\(170 < h \leqslant 180\)\(180 < h \leqslant 190\)
Frequency02023125
  1. On graph paper, using the same set of axes, draw two cumulative frequency graphs to illustrate the data.
  2. On a school trip the students have to enter a cave which is 165 cm high. Use your graph to estimate the percentage of the girls who will be unable to stand upright.
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  3. The students are asked to compare the heights of the girls and the boys. State one advantage of using a pair of box-and-whisker plots instead of the cumulative frequency graphs to do this. [1]