Daniella G. answered 07/23/13
Recent Graduate in Microbiology, looking to tutor in the sciences
stem and leaf plots are used to easily see large amounts of data. usually, you take the first digits and place them on one side of the table- the stem side, and the rightmost digit on the left side- the leaf side.
for example, the number ten would be
1 | 0
or the number 135 would be
13 | 5
if you have more than one number, you separate them by a space. so 125 and 126 would be
12 | 5 6
For this list, the stem and leaf plot would look like this
15 | 4 5
16 | 2 3 4 8 9
17 | 1 8 8 9
18 | 1 3