need help on solving stem- and- leaf- plots

Question

ok so i need some help understanding these see the way my teacher is show how to solve them is making it very difficult to understand and i make thing so much harder so i need some to dum stem- and- leaf- plots down to where a 1st grader could understand it

Answer 1

Basically, let's say you have a collection of data represented by a stem and leaf plot.

1 | 01123335579

2 | 2446999

4 | 22223445578

The way you read it is as follows.

In each row is a ten's digit to the left of the stem. For each digit on the right, appending it to the tens digit gives a number in the data.

For example the sample data represented in the above plot includes a 10, a pair of      11's, a 12, three 13's, etc.

 

Answer 2

Hi Zak,

 

I'm going to give you an example of stem-and leaf plotting.

Suppose that you have a data set that's as follows:

x={1, 2, 4, 5, 11, 15, 19, 20}

The stem (left side), is the first digit of the data. The leaf (right side) is the second digit. So plotting the above data set on a stem and leaf plot will result in the following

0   | 1, 2, 4, 5

1   | 1, 5, 9

2   | 0

The idea is that by looking at it this way you can get an idea of where most of the data lies. Here you can see that most of it is in the single digits and that as the numbers go up there are fewer of them.