Worksheet To Accompany the "Stem-and-Leaf Plots" Lesson
This worksheet is intended for use with the lesson Stem-and-Leaf Plots.
Please answer the following questions using the Stem-and-Leaf Plotter:
- Your class just took your last math test of the year. These are the scores: 97, 99, 81, 78, 73, 95, 33, 97, 64, 100, 85, 83, 85, 88, 79, 81, 93, 86, 83, and 71.
- What are the mean, median, and mode of the data?
- Describe the shape of the data set. Is it symmetric or are
there extreme values in the low or high numbers?
- Given this information would you say that the students did well
on the exam? Explain.
Please show your work:
- You decide to get odd jobs for the summer and you keep a log of your daily earnings. In one month you earned the following amounts: $12, $9, $15, $17, $20, $12, $9, $6, $13, $15, $11, $17, $18, $14, $15, $20, $25, $13, $12, $15.
- What are the mean, median, and mode of the data?
- Describe the shape of the data set. Is it symmetric or are
there extreme values in the low or high numbers?
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What was your average daily income? If you worked approximately 4 hours a day, what was your average daily income?
Please show your work:
- During the summer you also play in a recreational soccer league. Your coach asks you to quickly determine what was the most common score for the season. She was asking you to find the _____________ (mean, median, or mode) of the list of scores. Your team's scores were: 9, 5, 2, 10, 7, 6, 7, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 9, and 6.
- What are the mean, median, and mode of the data?
- Describe the shape of the data set. Is it symmetric or are
there extreme values in the low or high numbers?
- Draw the appropriate stem-and-leaf plot and write your answer
for the most common score.
- An extra challenge: You visit the grocery store with your dad and he is using a whole lot of coupons in order to save money. You decide to find the mean, median, and mode of the coupons and you want to use a stem-and-leaf plot, but then you realize that the coupons contain decimals. How can you use the stem-and-leaf plot?
Here are the values of the coupons: $0.50, $0.75, $0.30, $1.00, $0.45, $0.30, $0.75, $0.25, $0.25, $1.50, $0.75, $0.45, $0.30, and $0.50. Use the method that you described to find the mean, median, and mode of these values!
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