CAIE A-Level Mathematics 5.1.1 Data representation
Practise choosing statistical displays and explaining what each representation preserves, hides or makes easier to compare.
- Syllabus
- 2028–2030
- Course
- Mathematics 9709
- Level
- AS
Practise choosing statistical displays and explaining what each representation preserves, hides or makes easier to compare.
The heights, in cm, of the 11 basketball players in each of two clubs, the Amazons and the Giants, are shown below.

State an advantage of using a stem-and-leaf diagram compared to a box-and-whisker plot to illustrate this information.
Includes all data
B1
Reference to either including all/raw data
or further statistical processes are possible that cannot be found using data from box-and-whisker, eg frequency, mean, mode or standard deviation not only median, IQR, range or spread which
can be found from both.