6th

Statistics Grade

lower upper
quartile quartile
lower median upper
extreme extreme

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IQR = Q2 – Q1 Sum of all observations

Average =
IQR – Interquartile Range Number of observations
Q1 – lower quartile

Q2 – upper quartile

Workbook 3
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 Median

Example 1: Example 2:

Find the median of 21, 56, 14, 37 and 68. Find the median of 43, 88, 46, 2, 39, 65, 70, 91, 8
and 17.
Arrange the data in an increasing order.
Arrange the data in an increasing order.
14, 21, 37 , 56, 68
2, 8, 17, 39, 43 , 46 , 65, 70, 88, 91
Middle number is 37. Middle numbers are 43 and 46.

Median : 37 Median : 43 + 46 = 44.5

2

Find the median for each set of numbers.

1) 26, 18, 33, 10, 21, 36, 16 2) 83, 94, 72, 88, 65, 76, 92, 69

Median : Median :

3) 99, 32, 61, 82, 58, 41, 73, 24, 18 4) 26, 49, 15, 33, 53, 77, 35

Median : Median :

5) 38, 67, 59, 84, 46, 74, 95, 14 6) 76, 82, 57, 93, 64, 72

Median : Median :

7) The minimum gestation periods (in days) of a cat, fox, Guinea pig, dog, goat and
kangaroo are 58, 53, 56, 58, 145 and 42 respectively. Find the median.

Median :

8) In a music academy, 24 students learn to play music in the Guitar, 25 in the Piano,
16 in the Saxophone, 22 in drums, 32 in the Trumpet, 15 in the Violin and 32 in the
Woodwind. Find the median.

Median :

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 Quartiles
Example: Find the quartiles for the given data: 71, 40, 62, 35, 50, 40, 79, 64, 30.

Solution: Arrange the data in an increasing order.

30, 35, 40, 40, 50, 62, 64, 71, 79

Second quartile : 50
35 + 40 64 + 71
First quartile : = 37.5 Third quartile : = 67.5
2 2

Find the quartiles for each set of numbers.

1) 80, 54, 32, 66, 78, 15, 82, 45

First quartile : Second quartile : Third quartile :

2) 2, 94, 42, 68, 51, 71

First quartile : Second quartile : Third quartile :

3) 92, 52, 34, 41, 24, 65, 83, 96, 70, 52

First quartile : Second quartile : Third quartile :

4) 36, 15, 53, 18, 43, 27, 35

First quartile : Second quartile : Third quartile :

5) Alex is a Customer Service Executive. The number of calls received from 9 AM to 6 PM

(every one hour) are the following.
19, 12, 20, 19, 22, 11, 9, 25, 26
Find the first, second and third quartiles.

First quartile : Second quartile : Third quartile :

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 Five-Number Summary
Write the five-number summary for each set of data.

1) 26, 19, 16, 30, 9, 7, 10, 22, 15, 31, 34, 13 2) 76, 105, 116, 88, 76, 122, 84, 116

Minimum : Minimum :

Q1 : Q1 :

Q2 : Q2 :

Q3 : Q3 :

Maximum : Maximum :

3) 35, 87, 69, 39, 63, 82, 71, 90, 39 4) 27, 4, 33, 6, 21, 47, 52, 2, 4, 24, 30

Minimum : Minimum :

Q1 : Q1 :

Q2 : Q2 :

Q3 : Q3 :

Maximum : Maximum :

5) 122, 160, 89, 42, 89, 115, 71, 48 6) 37, 66, 72, 85, 81, 98, 22, 15, 10, 83

Minimum : Minimum :

Q1 : Q1 :

Q2 : Q2 :

Q3 : Q3 :

Maximum : Maximum :

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 Five-Number Summary

Write the five-number summary for each set of data.

1) 29, 4, 14, 34, 10, 8, 56, 14, 79, 61, 2) 45, 152, 4.7, 6.3, 1.5, 66, 89, 116, 134,
88, 70, 8, 13, 31 161, 57

Minimum : Minimum :

Q1 : Q1 :

Q2 : Q2 :

Q3 : Q3 :

Maximum : Maximum :

3) 17, 116, 41, 87, 65, 105, 118, 93, 4) 23.4, 39.1, 55, 69, 9, 2, 16.9, 28, 17.3,
114, 22, 74, 114, 87 70, 36, 41.7, 1, 27

Minimum : Minimum :

Q1 : Q1 :

Q2 : Q2 :

Q3 : Q3 :

Maximum : Maximum :

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 Read and Interpret the Plot

1) Rhone downloads ten mobile applications in his smartphone. The size of each
application (in MB) is noted and a box-and-whisker plot is made. Read the plot
and answer the questions.

10 20 30 40 50

a) Write the third quartile from the given plot.

b) What is the minimum size of the application downloaded?

c) What is the first quartile?

2) The average annual temperature (in Fahrenheit) of Idaho, Colorado, Connecticut,

Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Arizona, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia are
recorded to make a box-and-whisker plot. Read the plot and answer the questions.

30 40 50 60 70

a) What is the maximum temperature recorded?

b) What is the third quartile?

c) Write the median from the given plot.

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 Read and Interpret the Plot

1) Lisa planted 12 varieties of flowering plants in her garden. She counted the number
of flowers blossomed in each variety for eight months and made a plot. Read the plot
and answer the questions.

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90

a) What is the maximum number of flowers bloomed?

b) Write the third quartile.

c) What is the median of the given data?

2) A long track running race (6000 meter) practice session was taken up by different
athletes from various countries. The time in seconds are tracked and a box-and-whisker
plot is made. Read the plot and answer the questions.

730 750 770 790 810 830 850 870 890 910

a) What is the inter-quartile range?

b) Write the first quartile from the given plot.

c) What is the range of the given data?

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 Box-and-Whisker Plot
Make box-and-whisker plots for the given data.
1) 79, 55, 82, 63, 87, 71, 54, 80, 65, 76, 57, 68

Minimum : Maximum :

Q1 : Q2 : Q3 :

50 60 70 80 90

2) 92, 75, 81, 99, 75, 103, 86, 107, 94, 83

Minimum : Maximum :

Q1 : Q2 : Q3 :

70 80 90 100 110

3) 40, 28, 37, 48, 53, 31, 45, 23, 34

Minimum : Maximum :

Q1 : Q2 : Q3 :

20 30 40 50 60

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 Box-and-Whisker Plot
Make box-and-whisker plots for the given data.
1) 88, 91.7, 76.4, 80, 107, 99, 85, 73, 91.5, 104.8, 79, 92, 100

Minimum : Maximum :

Q1 : Q2 : Q3 :

70 80 90 100 110

2) 59, 65, 73, 86, 57.5, 80.5, 73, 81, 84, 78.9, 65

Minimum : Maximum :

Q1 : Q2 : Q3 :

50 60 70 80 90

3) 39, 53.8, 64.3, 37, 41, 67.5, 47, 54, 58, 36, 43, 41

Minimum : Maximum :

Q1 : Q2 : Q3 :

30 40 50 60 70

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 Box-and-Whisker Plot
1) Ten teams were a part of a band parade to perform the Independence day
celebrations. The data represented below shows the number of participants in
each team.
50, 59, 72, 58, 41, 65, 45, 69, 54, 76
Make a box-and-whisker plot.
Min : , Q1 : , Q2 : , Q3 : , Max :

40 50 60 70 80

2) Mr. Thomson’s bakery sold a variety of items to the customers. The data shows the
sales of twelve different bakery items in a day.
83, 100, 109, 78, 87, 98, 97, 103, 85, 106, 91, 80
Make a box-and-whisker plot.
Min : , Q1 : , Q2 : , Q3 : , Max :

70 80 90 100 110

3) An executive makes 10 promotional calls to the customers to promote his service.

The duration of each call (in seconds) is recorded below.
413, 387, 280, 311, 368, 400, 420, 300, 295, 332
Make a box-and-whisker plot.

Min : , Q1 : , Q2 : , Q3 : , Max :

100 200 300 400 500

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 Make and Interpret the Plot

1) A chemist uses various acids in the laboratory for his experiments. The quantity of each
acid used is tabulated below.

Acid Hydrochloric Nitric Sulphuric Phosphoric Malic Citric Tartaric Acetic Oxalic
Quantity
(in ml) 79 64 48 51 75 41 50 67 56

Make a box-and-whisker plot.

40 50 60 70 80

Answer the following questions.

1) What is the first quartile?

2) How many acids are used by the chemist for his

experiments?

3) Which acid is used the most by the chemist?

4) What is the median of the given data?

5) What is the least quantity of acid used?

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