Practise constructing or interpreting frequency tables, histograms and cumulative-frequency graphs, finding quartiles and percentiles, and comparing box plots or outliers.
Elsie, a librarian, wants to investigate the length of time, T minutes, that people spent in her library on a particular day.
Elsie's data for 160 people who visited the library on that particular day is shown in the following table.
Find the value of k.
Using the table, write down the maximum possible number of people who spent 35 minutes or less in the library on that day.
Elsie assumes her data to be representative of future visitors to the library.
The following box and whisker diagram shows the times, in minutes, that the 160 visitors spent in the library.
Write down the median time spent in the library.
Find the interquartile range.
Hence show that the longest time that a person spent in the library is not an outlier.
Elsie believes the box and whisker diagram indicates that the times spent in the library are not normally distributed.
Identify one feature of the box and whisker diagram which might support Elsie's belief.