Exploring Stem and Leaf Plots in Statistics

What does Kathryn R. Pillar do with her leaves before eating them?

• She feeds them to animals

• She cooks them

• She organizes them into stem-and-leaf plots

• She throws them away

What natural event disrupts Kat's leaf arrangements?

• Rain

• Snow

• Earthquake

• Gust of wind

What is the primary purpose of a stem-and-leaf plot?

• To calculate the average of data

• To organize data for easy analysis

• To predict future data trends

• To create a visual art

Which digits form the 'stem' in a stem-and-leaf plot?

• The smallest place value digits

• The middle value digits

• Randomly chosen digits

• The largest place value digits

What does Kat do if the median value is not directly available?

• She chooses the next largest leaf

• She chooses the next smallest leaf

• She calculates the mean instead

• She skips eating

What does Kat do after organizing her leaves?

• She discards the leaves

• She replants them

• She starts by eating the leaf with the median value

• She goes to sleep

What happens when the median lands between two numbers?

• Kat ignores the values

• Kat eats both leaves

• Kat finds a new leaf

• Kat settles for the mean value

How is the mean value of the leaves calculated?

• Add all values and divide by the number of leaves

• Multiply all values and take the square root

• Subtract the smallest from the largest value

• None of the above

What is the result when all leaves added together equals 760 and there are 18 leaves?

• 42.0

• 42.2

• 41.8

• 43.0

What does Kat plan after eating?

• To play with other caterpillars

• To start a diet

• To go hunting

• To gather more leaves