Question

The results of 41 students' math tests (with a best possible score of 70) are recorded below: 31, 49, 19, 62, 50, 24, 45, 23, 51, 32, 48, 55, 60, 40, 35, 54, 26, 57, 37, 43, 65, 50, 55, 18, 53, 41, 50, 34, 67, 56, 44, 4, 54, 57, 39, 52, 45, 35, 51, 63, 42 Prepare an ordered stem and leaf plot for the data and briefly describe what it shows. Are there any outliers? If so, which scores?

Answer 1

Solution:

Stem and leaf plot of given data:

This data shows that most students obtain marks in the range of 50-57. Just one student is below 5 marks.

Only marks 4 can be taken as an outlier.