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    Grade 8th Criterion A Statistics

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    This document contains instructions for multiple data analysis and visualization tasks involving stem-and-leaf plots, box-and-whisker plots, and other descriptive statistics. It asks students to analyze sample data sets measuring education spending, school attendance, income, and generated data. Students are asked to calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion, identify outliers, convert between plot types, and discuss the impacts of outliers on different summaries.

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    Grade 8th Criterion A Statistics

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    This document contains instructions for multiple data analysis and visualization tasks involving stem-and-leaf plots, box-and-whisker plots, and other descriptive statistics. It asks students to analyze sample data sets measuring education spending, school attendance, income, and generated data. Students are asked to calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion, identify outliers, convert between plot types, and discuss the impacts of outliers on different summaries.

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    This document contains instructions for multiple data analysis and visualization tasks involving stem-and-leaf plots, box-and-whisker plots, and other descriptive statistics. It asks students to analyze sample data sets measuring education spending, school attendance, income, and generated data. Students are asked to calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion, identify outliers, convert between plot types, and discuss the impacts of outliers on different summaries.

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    Grade 8th Criterion A Statistics

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    Nisha Kulkarni
    This document contains instructions for multiple data analysis and visualization tasks involving stem-and-leaf plots, box-and-whisker plots, and other descriptive statistics. It asks students to analyze sample data sets measuring education spending, school attendance, income, and generated data. Students are asked to calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion, identify outliers, convert between plot types, and discuss the impacts of outliers on different summaries.

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    1.

    a) Draw a stem-and-leaf plot (and key) for the given data set.
    3.4, 5.1, 4.7, 5.5, 3.0, 3.9, 4.1, 5.5, 4.6, 4.9, 6.8
    b) Find the measures of central tendency for the data set. Show your working
    and give answers to the nearest tenth where necessary.
    c) Find the range, quartiles, and interquartile range for the data set.
    2. The low-income countries with the highest level of spending on education (as
    a percentage of overall government spending) are represented in the stem-and-
    leaf plot below.

    a) What is the highest percentage of spending on education? What is the


    lowest?
    b) Finland is one of the top developed countries in terms of spending on
    education, spending roughly 19% of its total government budget. How
    many countries spent more than Finland?
    c) Find the mean, median and mode of the data set. Show your working and
    give answers to the nearest tenth where necessary.
    3. Students in high and low-income countries attend school for a specifed
    number of days per year, as represented below.

    a) Convert the data to a stem-and-leaf plot as well as a box-and-whisker plot.


    b) What are the advantages and disadvantages of each of the three
    representations? Explain.
    c) Two of the countries in the bar graph are low-income countries. How long
    do you think their school year is? Explain.
    d) What other information would be important to know when comparing how
    long students in different countries are in school? Explain.
    4. The following is a box-and-whisker plot of the average annual income
    (Australian dollars, AUD) per person per country in the Oceania region.

    a) What is the minimum average annual income? What must it be like to live
    on that amount of money per year? Explain.
    b) 75% of all average annual incomes are below what amount?
    c) Two outliers were not included in the graph: one country with an average
    income of 50 000 AUD and the other with an average income of 58 000
    AUD. Research the countries in the Oceania region. Which two countries
    do you think these outliers represent?
    d) If you created a new box-and-whisker plot to include the two countries in
    part c, describe how the new box-and-whisker plot would differ from the
    current one.
    e) Do you think it is preferable to have these two countries listed as outliers?
    Explain.

    5.
    a) Create a set of data with at least eight values that has a mean of 10, a
    median of 11 and mode of 8.
    b) Add an outlier that will increase the mean to 15.
    c) Create a set of data so that median < mode < mean.

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