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Measures of Spread 2

This document provides information and examples about different measures of spread for data sets, including: - Range, which is the difference between the lowest and highest values. - Interquartile range, which is the difference between the third (Q3) and first (Q1) quartiles. It describes the middle 50% of data. - Box and whisker plots, which visually represent the median, quartiles, range and outliers of a data set. - Standard deviation, which measures how spread out numbers are from the mean. It is calculated based on the variance, which is the average of squared deviations from the mean. Standard deviation is used to analyze both ungrouped and grouped data.

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Measures of Spread 2

This document provides information and examples about different measures of spread for data sets, including: - Range, which is the difference between the lowest and highest values. - Interquartile range, which is the difference between the third (Q3) and first (Q1) quartiles. It describes the middle 50% of data. - Box and whisker plots, which visually represent the median, quartiles, range and outliers of a data set. - Standard deviation, which measures how spread out numbers are from the mean. It is calculated based on the variance, which is the average of squared deviations from the mean. Standard deviation is used to analyze both ungrouped and grouped data.

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Measures of spread

1. THE RANGE
The difference between the lowest value and the highest value.

Ex.What is the range for the following set of numbers?


A. 15, 21, 57, 43, 11, 39, 56, 83, 77, 11, 64, 91, 18, 37
B. 57, -5, 11, 39, 56, 82, -2, 11, 64, 18, 37, 15, 68
2. Interquartile Range

Ex. What is the interquartile range for the following set of numbers?
4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 16, 16, 18, 20, 21, 25, 30, 31, 33, 36, 37, 40, 41

Ex. Jake did a survey of the numbers of brothers and sisters of the children in his class. He
recorded the results as follows:

What is the interquartile range

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3. Box and Whisker Plot

Ex.

For the information shown in the above box and whisker plot, what are the median, range and
interquartile range?

Ex. Nineteen girls were required to complete a puzzle as quickly as possible. Their times (in
seconds) were recorded and shown below:
14 15 16 16 17 17 18 18 19 19 19 20 21 21 22 23 24
24 29
Draw a box and whisker diagram to represent the data.

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4. Standard Deviation (S.D.)

Standard Deviation
Mean

- Ungrouped Data

Ex. Find the variance and standard deviation of 6, 7, 10, 11, 11, 13, 16, 18, 25.

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- Ungrouped Data (frequency distribution)

Ex. Ramiro did a survey of the number of pets owned by his classmates, with the following
results:

What was the standard deviation?

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- Grouped Data

Ex. Find an estimate of the variance and standard deviation of the following data for the marks
obtained in a test by 88 students.
Marks (x) Frequency (f)
0-9 6
10 – 19 16
20 - 29 24
30 - 39 25
40 - 49 17

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Practice Questions
1. The population of a town was recorded every twenty years from 1900 to 2000. The results
are shown in the line graph. Estimate the interquartile range over that period.

2. Mid-year Test Scores of Students in Filipino, find the interquatile range


Marks (x) Frequency (f)
16 - 20 2
21 – 25 7
26 - 30 14
31 - 35 8
36 - 40 8
41 - 45 1

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3.

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4. The grouped frequency table shows the length of service in years of employees who have
been working for a company for at least ten years. Calculate an estimate of the standard
deviation of the length of service of these employees.( 7.70 years)

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