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A. 100 B. BTWN 25 and 26 Value: (0+1) /2 0.5 BTWN 75 and 76 Value: (4+4) /2 4 C

The document contains 4 problems involving measures of dispersion and quartiles from different data sets: 1) A supermarket's employee overtime hours with an interquartile range of 4 hours. 2) A hospital's weekly visitors with a lower quartile of 1000 visitors, upper quartile of 1500 visitors, and interquartile range of 500 visitors. 3) Travel times for a train journey with an interpercentile range between the 5th and 95th percentiles of 14.5 to 20.5 minutes. 4) Daily distances traveled on a road trip with a lower quartile of 178 km, median of 185 km, upper quartile of 196 km, and no outliers.

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A. 100 B. BTWN 25 and 26 Value: (0+1) /2 0.5 BTWN 75 and 76 Value: (4+4) /2 4 C

The document contains 4 problems involving measures of dispersion and quartiles from different data sets: 1) A supermarket's employee overtime hours with an interquartile range of 4 hours. 2) A hospital's weekly visitors with a lower quartile of 1000 visitors, upper quartile of 1500 visitors, and interquartile range of 500 visitors. 3) Travel times for a train journey with an interpercentile range between the 5th and 95th percentiles of 14.5 to 20.5 minutes. 4) Daily distances traveled on a road trip with a lower quartile of 178 km, median of 185 km, upper quartile of 196 km, and no outliers.

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Seminar worksheet.

Measures of dispersion 1

1. A superstore records the number of hours overtime worked by their employees in one particular
week. The results are shown in the table.

Number of hours Frequency Cumulative a. Fill in the cumulative frequency


frequency column and work out how many
0 25 25 employees the superstore had in
1 10 35 that week.
2 20 55

3 10 65 b. Find 𝑄1 and 𝑄3.

4 25 90

5 10 100 c. Work out the interquartile range.

a. 100
b. btwn 25th and 26th value: (0+1)/2=0.5
btwn 75th and 76th value: (4+4)/2=4
c.

2. The number of visitors to a hospital in a week was recorded. The results are shown in the table.

Cumulative Number of Frequency Giving your answers to the nearest whole number find.
Frequency visitors
a. The lower quartile 𝑄1.
10 500-1000 10
35 1000-1500 25
b. The upper quartile 𝑄3.
50 1500-2000 15
55 2000-2500 5
c. The interquartile range.
60 2500-3000 5

a. The lower quartile 𝑄1: 1000 Q1 1500


10 15 35

1100

b. The upper quartile 𝑄3:


1500 Q3 2000
35 45 50

c.

3. A train travelled from Lancaster to Preston. The times, to the nearest minute, it took for the journey
were recoded over a certain period. The times are shown in the table.

Time for journey (minutes) 15-16 17-18 19-20 21-22


Frequency 5 10 35 10
Cumulative frequency 5 15 50 60

Calculate the 5% to 95% interpercentile range.

P5: 14.5 P5 16.5


0 3 5

P95: 20.5 P95 22.5


50 57 60
STATISTICS

4. Alibek and Dina decided to go for a touring holiday across Kazakhstan for the whole of July. They
recorded the number of kilometres they travelled each day. The data are summarised in the stem
and leaf diagram below.

stem leaf key: 15|5 means 155 kilometres


15 5 (1) 1
16 4 8 9 (3) 4
17 3 5 7 8 8 8 9 9 9 (9) 13
18 4 4 5 5 8 (5) 18
19 2 3 4 5 5 6 (6) 24
(4) 28
20 4 7 8 9
(2) 30
21 1 2
(1) 31
22 6

a. Find 𝑄1, 𝑄2, and 𝑄3.


Outliers are the values that lie outside 𝑄1 − 1.5(𝑄3 − 𝑄1) and 𝑄3 + 1.5(𝑄3 − 𝑄1).
b. Find any outliers.
c. Draw a box plot of these data.

a. Q1: 8th value Q1 = 178


Q2: 16th value Q2 = 185
Q3: 24th value Q3 = 196

b. Outliers: 𝑄1 − 1.5(𝑄3 − 𝑄1) = no any


𝑄3 + 1.5(𝑄3 − 𝑄1) = no any
c.

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