MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

Zara weighted the contents of fifteen different bags of nuts and recorded their mass to the nearest gram. Draw a box-and-whisker plot to display the data.

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Important Questions on Averages and Measures of Spread

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

The range and quartiles of a data set are given below. Use these figures to draw  a box-and -whisker plot.

Range : 76-28=48

Q1=41.5, Q2=46.5, Q3=53.5

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

The table shows the marks that the same group of ten students received for three consecutive assignments. Draw three box-and-whisker plots on the same scale to display this data and use the diagrams to comment on the performance of this group of students in the three assigments.

TEST 1 34 45 67 87 65 56 34 55 89 77
TEST 2 19 45 88 75 45 88 64 59 49 72
TEST 3 76 32 67 45 65 45 66 57 77 59

 

EASY
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

The following box-and whisker plot shows the distances in kilometers that various teachers travel to get school each day.

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What is the median distance travelled ? What is the furthest that a teacher has to travel?

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

The following box-and whisker plot shows the distances in kilometres that various teachers travel to get school each day.

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What percentage of the teachers travel 30 or fewer kilometres to work ? What percentage of the teachers travel between 15 and 25 kilometre to work?

EASY
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

The following box-and whisker plot shows the distances in kilometres that various teachers travel to get school each day.

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What is the IQR of this data set?. What does the position of the median in the box tell you about the distribution of the data?

MEDIUM
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Two teams of friends have recorded their scores on a game and created a pair of box-and-whisker plots . What is the interquartile range for team A & B

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EASY
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Two teams of friends have recorded their scores on a game and created a pair of box-and-whisker plots . Which team has the most consistent scores? To stay in the game , you must score at least 120. Which team seems most likely to stay in?

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EASY
Upper Secondary: IGCSE
IMPORTANT

Two teams of friends have recorded their scores on a game and created a pair of box-and-whisker plots . Which team gets the highest scores ? Give reasons for your answer.

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