Stem-and-Leaf Plots

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Course: GKT101: General Knowledge for Teachers – Math
Book: Stem-and-Leaf Plots
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Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024, 8:34 PM

Description

One of the ways to organize data is a stem-and-leaf plot. Watch the video and complete the interactive exercises.

Interpreting a histogram

Stem-and-leaf plots

Reading stem and leaf plots

Practice

The following data points represent the diagonal length (in centimeters) of each television at Electronic Emporium.

55,27,56,24,41,42,60,65

Using the data, create a histogram.


Creating a histogram - Questions

  1. Below is the number of pages in each of the six books that Pedro read this summer.

     \begin{aligned} &584,201,255 \\ &44,312,334\ \end{aligned}

    Using the data, create a histogram.


  2. The following data points represent the number of guests at Hunter's Ribeye BBQ House each day since they opened.

    96,279,255,254,75,211,271,291

    Using the data, create a histogram.


  3. Below are the lengths (in meters) of Luiza's eight drives from the last time that she played golf.

    \begin{aligned} &213,147,156,177 \\ &130,23,78,184 \end{aligned}

    Using the data, create a histogram.


  4. The following data points represent how many houses Gregg the Garbage Man visited each day last week.

    12,28,33,37,23,14,9

    Using the data, create a histogram.


Creating a histogram - Answers












Read histograms - Questions


  1. How many vehicles are at Nam's Gas Station?

    _____ vehicles


  2. How many cherry pies have 90 or more cherries?

    ______ pies


  3. How many more houses have an area between 150 and 200 \mathrm{~m}^{2} than between 250 and 300 \mathrm{~m}^{2}?

    _____ houses


  4. How many festivals were there?

    _____ festivals

Read histograms - Answers

  1. There are \mathrm{23} vehicles at Nam's Gas Station.
  2. There are \mathrm{7} cherry pies with 90 or more cherries.
  3. There are \mathrm{8} more houses with an area between 150 and 200 m2 than between 250 and 300 m2.
  4. There were \mathrm{15} festivals.

Reading stem and leaf plots - Questions

1. A statistician for a chain of department stores created the following stem-and-leaf plot showing the number of pairs of glasses at each of the stores:

 \begin{array}{|l|lllllll}0 & 9 & & & & & \\1 & 3 & 6 & 6 & 8 & & \\2 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 5 & 6 & 9 \\3 & 0 & & & & & \\4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 3 & 5 & 7\end{array}

Key: 4 \mid 1=41 pairs of glasses

How many department stores have fewer than 38 pairs of glasses?

______ department stores

2. A zookeeper published the following stem-and-leaf plot showing the number of bears at each major zoo in the country:

\begin{array}{|l|llllll}0 & & & & & & \\1 & 8 & 8 & & & & \\2 & 1 & 3 & 6 & 6 & 7 & 7 \\3 & 1 & 7 & & & & \\4 & 1 & 4 & 5 & 7 & & \\5 & 0 & 3 & & & &\end{array}

Key: 4 \mid 1=41 bears

How many zoos have exactly 16 bears?

_____ zoos

3. A zookeeper published the following stem-and-leaf plot showing the number of lizards at each major zoo in the country:

\begin{aligned}&\left|\begin{array}{c|ccccc}0 \\1 \\2 & 0 & 6 & 8 & 8 & 8 \\3 & 0 & 2 & 6 & 6 & 7 \\4 & 1 & 2 & 6 & 6 & \\5 & & & & & \\6\end{array}\right| \\&\text { Key: } 4 \mid 1=41 \text { lizards }\end{aligned}

What was the smallest number of lizards at any one zoo?

_____ lizards

4. The regional manager of a chain of department stores created the following stem-and-leaf plot showing the number of pairs of boots at each of the stores:

\begin{array}{l|lll}0 & & & \\1 & 7 & 8 & \\2 & 0 & 5 & 8 \\3 & 4 & 4 & 7 \\4 & 0 & & \\5 & & & \\6 & & &\end{array}

Key: 1 \mid 7=17 pairs of boots

How many department stores have more than 60 pairs of boots?

_____ department stores

Reading stem and leaf plots - Answers

1. There are \mathrm{12} department stores that match our question.

2. There are \mathrm{0} zoos that match our question.

3. The zoo with the fewest lizards had \mathrm{20} lizards.

4. There are \mathrm{0} department stores that match our question.