Interquartile Range and Percentiles

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Interquartile Range and Percentiles: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Outlier, Finding Interquartile Range from Stem-and-leaf Diagram, Finding Percentiles from Cumulative Frequency Curve & Quartile of Grouped Data etc.

Important Questions on Interquartile Range and Percentiles

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Calculate Q1,Q2 and Q3 from the following grouped data.

Class Frequency 
46-50 5
41-45 10
36-40 11
31-35 13
26-30 9
21-25 2

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If total number of data sets are 52, then the percentiles of a given set of data fall within 8% is _____.

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A set of numbers may be as follows: 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 50. Find the interquartile range (IQR).

Frequency: Cumulative Frequency:
4 4
6 10
3 13
2 15
6 21
4 25

 

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Calculate Q1,Q2 and Q3 from the following grouped data.

Class Frequency 
36-40 3
31-35 9
26-30 15
21-25 8
16-20 12
11-15 3

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Identify any outliers for the given set of data.

4,3,5,6,8,9,18

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If total number of data sets are 52, then how many of a given set of data fall within 10%.

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A set of numbers may be as follows: 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 50. Find lower, upper quartile and  interquartile range (IQR).

Frequency: Cumulative Frequency:
4 4
6 10
3 13
2 15
6 21
4 25

 

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Identify any outliers for the given set of data.

1,2,3,5,6,7,8,8,9,11,19

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20 adults are selected at random, and each is asked to state the number of trips abroad that they have made.

The results are shown in the back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram.

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Interpret the key features of the data represented in your diagrams and compare the data for the 2 groups of adults.

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Find the sum of lower quartile and upper quartile for the data set:

9, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 15

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Find upper quartile for the data set:

41, 21, 38, 27, 31, 45, 23, 26, 29, 30, 28, 25, 35, 42, 47, 53, 29, 31, 35 

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Find lower quartile for the data set:

41, 21, 38, 27, 31, 45, 23, 26, 29, 30, 28, 25, 35, 42, 47, 53, 29, 31, 35 

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The difference between the values of the first and third quartiles is called Inter quartile range.