Cambridge International Mathematics

122 Graphs, charts and tables (Chapter 5)

Review set 5B

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1 The number of drivers caught speeding in each month last year were:

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

80 65 60 95 50 85 70 40 55 80 60 90

Display this data on a vertical bar chart.

2 The prices of IBM shares over a 10 day period were:

Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Share Price ($) 116 : 00116 : 50118 : 00116 : 80116 : 50117 : 00118 : 40118 : 50118 : 50119 : 80

a Is the line graph or a scatter diagram more appropriate for this data?

b Display the data on your chosen graph. Use a range of$115to$120on the vertical axis.

c On what day was the share price: i highest ii lowest?

3 The weights of 16 new-born babies in kilograms are:

2 : 3 , 3 : 1 , 3 : 8 , 4 : 1 , 3 : 6 , 3 : 5 , 4 : 2 , 2 : 8 , 3 : 4 , 3 : 9 , 4 : 0 , 5 : 1 , 4 : 4 , 3 : 9 , 4 : 0 , 3 : 3

Draw a stem-and-leaf plot for this data.

4 Over the course of a 35 game season, basketballers Rhys and Evan kept a record of the number of

rebounds they made each game. The results were:

Rhys

8649 6 1099 8

7578 7 4 78 5

8963 9 108710

978810 9 68

Evan

776867668

657785665

797665877

85776878

a Construct a back-to-back bar chart for the data.

b Which player was the most consistent?

c Which player generally collected the most rebounds?

Men

No. of pets Frequency

0 15

1 20

2 10

3 3

4 2

5 0

Women

No. of pets Frequency

0 7

1 10

2 15

3 10

4 5

5 3

5 A pet store owner wants to know

whether men or women own more pets.

He surveys 50 men and 50 women,

each of whom live by themselves, and

collects data on how many pets they

own. The results are as follows:

a Display the data on a side-by-side

bar chart.

b In general, do men or women own

more pets?

Response Frequency

Work 89

Apprenticeship 47

University 71

Travel 38

6 A selection of students in their final year of high school were

asked what they planned to do next year. The responses are

displayed in the table alongside:

Use technology to construct a pie chart for this data.

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