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Statistics: Chapter 3 & 4 Describing Data

This document provides sample data and questions to practice describing data through various statistical analysis techniques including stem-and-leaf plots, determining the median, quartiles, interquartile range, outliers, box plots, skewness, empirical rule, mean deviation, and Chebyshev's rule. It includes sample data on test scores and incomes and asks the reader to analyze the data and answer questions related to describing and summarizing the distributions.

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Statistics: Chapter 3 & 4 Describing Data

This document provides sample data and questions to practice describing data through various statistical analysis techniques including stem-and-leaf plots, determining the median, quartiles, interquartile range, outliers, box plots, skewness, empirical rule, mean deviation, and Chebyshev's rule. It includes sample data on test scores and incomes and asks the reader to analyze the data and answer questions related to describing and summarizing the distributions.

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Supplemental Instruction Handouts

Statistics
Chapter 3 & 4
Describing Data

1. Given the following sample data:

98 87 72 82 102 60 94 92 76 71 68 79 75 69 89 84 86 85 73 75

A) Develop a stem – and – leaf chart.


B) Determine the median.
C) Determine the first quartile.
D) Determine the third quartile.
E) What is the interquartile range?
F) Beyond what point is a value considered an outlier?
G) Identify any outliers.
H) Develop the box plot.
I) Determine the skewness of the box plot.

2. The mean income of a group of sample observations is $500.


The standard deviation is $50.

A) According to the Empirical Rule, at least what percent of the incomes will lie between
$400 and $600?
B) According to Chebyshev, at least what percent of incomes will lie between $420 and
$580?

3. Use the following data to calculate the mean deviation:

22, 35, 24, 29, 37, 17, 32

Learning Assistance Centre www.rrc.mb.ca/lac


These questions are compiled by Mike Reimer for the Learning Assistance Centre.

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