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CAIE A-Level Mathematics 5.1 Representation of data Question Bank

Practise representing data from Paper 5 using diagrams, summary statistics and graph readings for grouped and raw data sets.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Mathematics 9709
Level
A2

Exam points

  • draw stem-and-leaf, box-and-whisker and cumulative frequency diagrams on suitable scales
  • read medians, quartiles and IQR from ordered data, plots or cumulative frequency graphs
  • calculate combined means and standard deviations from totals

5.1 Representation of data question 1

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The heights, in cm, of the 11 basketball players in each of two clubs, the Amazons and the Giants, are shown below.

Table for Question 5.1 Representation of data question 1 — CAIE A-Level Mathematics A2

Question (a)

(a)

State an advantage of using a stem-and-leaf diagram compared to a box-and-whisker plot to illustrate this information.

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Question (b)

(b)

Represent the data by drawing a back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram with Amazons on the left-hand side of the diagram.

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Question (c)

(c)

Find the interquartile range of the heights of the players in the Amazons.

Four new players join the Amazons. The mean height of the 15 players in the Amazons is now 191.2 cm . The heights of three of the new players are 180 cm,185 cm180 \mathrm{~cm}, 185 \mathrm{~cm} and 190 cm .

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Question (d)

(d)

Find the height of the fourth new player.

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