1MA1 Higher themed papers: Statistical diagrams – Box plots

Box plots

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 The total mark for this paper is 43. There are 10 questions.
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1 The box plot shows information about the distribution of the amounts of money spent by
some male students on their holidays.

(a) Work out the interquartile range for the amounts of money spent by these male students.

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The table below shows information about the distribution of the amounts of money spent
by some female students on their holidays.

Lower Upper
Smallest Median Largest
quartile quartile
Money
60 180 300 350 650
spent (£)

(b) On the grid above, draw a box plot for the information in the table.
(2)

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Chris says,
“The box plots show that the female students spent more money than the male
students.”
(c) Is Chris correct?
Give a reason for your answer.

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(Total for Question 1 is 5 marks)
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2 The table gives some information about the heights of 80 girls.

Least height 133 cm

Greatest height 170 cm

Lower quartile 145 cm

Upper quartile 157 cm

Median 151 cm

(a) Draw a box plot to represent this information.

(3)
(b) Work out an estimate for the number of these girls with a height between 133 cm
and 157 cm.

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(Total for Question 2 is 5 marks)
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3 Megan grows potatoes.

The box plot below shows information about the weights of Megan’s potatoes.

Megan says that half of her potatoes weigh less than 50 grams each.

(a) Is Megan correct?

Give a reason for your answer.

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Amy also grows potatoes.

The box plot below shows information about the weights of Amy’s potatoes.

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(b) Compare the distribution of the weights of Megan’s potatoes with the distribution
of the weights of Amy’s potatoes.
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(Total for Question 3 is 3 marks)

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4 The table shows information about the heights, in cm, of a group of Year 11 girls.

height (cm)
least height 154
median 165
lower quartile 161
interquartile range 7
range 20

(a) Draw a box plot for this information.

(3)

The box plot below shows information about the heights, in cm, of a group of Year 7 girls.

(b) Compare the distribution of heights of the Year 7 girls with the distribution of
heights of the Year 11 girls.
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(Total for Question 4 is 5 marks)
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5 The stem and leaf diagram shows information about the heights, in cm, of 23 sunflowers.

17 3 4 9

18 6 8 8

19 0 0 1 4 6 7 8 Key: 17|3 represents 173 cm

20 1 4 7 7 9 9

21 4 8 8 9

On the grid, draw a box plot for this information.

(Total for Question 5 is 3 marks)

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6 The times that 48 trains left a station on Monday were recorded.

The cumulative frequency graph gives information about the numbers of minutes the
trains were delayed, correct to the nearest minute.

The shortest delay was 0 minutes.

The longest delay was 42 minutes.
(a) On the grid below, draw a box plot for the information about the delays on Monday.

(3)

48 trains left the station on Tuesday.

The box plot below gives information about the delays on Tuesday.

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(b) Compare the distribution of the delays on Monday with the distribution of the delays
on Tuesday.

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Mary says,
“The longest delay on Tuesday was 33 minutes.
This means that there must be some delays of between 25 minutes and 30
minutes.”
(c) Is Mary right?
You must give a reason for your answer.

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(Total for Question 6 is 6 marks)

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7 Joan measured the heights of students in four different classes.

She drew a cumulative frequency graph and a box plot for each class.

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Match each cumulative frequency graph to its box plot.

Cumulative frequency
Box plot
graph

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(Total for Question 7 is 2 marks)

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8 Tom grows tomatoes.

The box plot below shows the distribution of the weights of 15 of Tom’s tomatoes.

(a) Work out the interquartile range.

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Jack also grows tomatoes.

Here are the weights, in grams, of 15 of Jack’s tomatoes.

15 15 15 16 16 16 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 18
3 5 8 4 6 7 0 0 3 4 5 5 7 9 6

(b) On the grid below, draw a box plot for this information.

(3)
(c) Compare the distribution of the weights of Tom’s tomatoes with the distribution
of
the weights of Jack’s tomatoes.

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(Total for Question 8 is 6 marks)
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9 The table shows some information about the weights, in kg, of some boxes.

Lower Upper
Minimum Median Range
Quartile Quartile
12 20 32 40 55

Ben uses this information to draw the box plot below.

Weight (kg)

Write down two things wrong with this box plot.

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(Total for Question 9 is 2 marks)
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10 The stem and leaf diagram shows the ages, in years, of 25 people.

1 7 7 8 9 Key: 1 | 7 represents 17 years

2 1 2 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 9 9
3 0 1 2 2 3 4 5 6
4 0 1

(a) (i) On the grid, draw a box plot for this information.

(3)

One of these people is chosen at random.

(ii) What is the probability that this person is 30 years of age or older?

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(2)

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The grouped frequency table gives information about the ages of a different group of
people.

Age (a years) Frequency

0 < a ⩽ 20 7
20 < a ⩽ 30 12
30 < a ⩽ 40 5
40 < a ⩽ 50 1

Anne drew this cumulative frequency table for this information.

Cumulative
Age (a years)
frequency
0 < a ⩽ 20 7
20 < a ⩽ 30 19
30 < a ⩽ 40 24
40 < a ⩽ 50 25

The cumulative frequency table is not correct.

(b) Write down one thing that is wrong with the table.

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(1)
(Total for Question 10 is 6 marks)
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TOTAL MARKS FOR PAPER: 43

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