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Data displays and summaries, stem-and-leaf plots, boxplots and event probabilities topic check

Practise data displays and summaries, stem-and-leaf plots, boxplots and event probabilities in G3 Mathematics, check independently, and return later to review. This check covers selected skills, not the whole course topic.

Learning goals
  • Read and interpret quantities in a bar graph
  • Read observations and changes on a line graph
  • Interpret sector shares relative to a pie chart's whole
  • Construct a complete minimum-to-maximum boxplot on an exact rational scale
  • Construct a complete ordered single-sided stem-and-leaf plot with a key
  • Find quartiles and interquartile range under a stated finite-data convention
  • Estimate quartiles, a percentile and interquartile range by linear interpolation
  • Estimate how many and what percentage of grouped observations lie below or above a value
  • Read and interpret data displays
  • Organise data and construct a suitable display
  • Evaluate the purposes and limitations of data displays
  • Calculate and interpret the arithmetic mean
  • Find the median of ungrouped observations
  • Find every mode of ungrouped observations
  • Calculate the range of ungrouped observations
  • Estimate the mean from grouped data
  • Calculate whole-data standard deviation from values and frequencies
  • Estimate standard deviation from grouped data
  • Compare variability using appropriate measures
  • Calculate two-stage event probabilities from possibility tables or tree routes
  • Count all and qualifying uniform outcomes and calculate the event probability
  • Distinguish independence from mutual exclusivity
  • G3 Mathematics 2027
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Construct complete boxplots · Retention check

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Practise: Calculate arithmetic means

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Practise: Count single-event probabilities

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Practise: Find quartiles and interquartile range

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Practise: Estimate grouped percentiles

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Practise: Construct complete boxplots

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Revision notes

Revise statistics and probability

Read and compare statistical displays and spread in G3 Mathematics, distinguishing estimates, independent events and conditional probabilities.

Key ideas

  1. Collect data and make a table

    Organise observations into a frequency table, choose a suitable display and check what the data can support.

  2. Histograms and dot diagrams

    Use numerical intervals for a histogram and one mark per observation for a dot diagram.

  3. Mean, median and mode

    Choose a measure for the question and sort the values before finding positional summaries.

  4. Recover the data before finding a summary

    Recover individual frequencies from running totals or a removed group, then find a mean, median, mode or range.

  5. Stem-and-leaf plots and grouped means

    Preserve exact values where possible and label estimates that use class midpoints.

  6. Quartiles, percentiles and cumulative frequency

    Read cumulative counts at class boundaries and treat grouped-data interpolation as an estimate.

  7. Boxplots and spread comparisons

    Construct the five-number summary on one scale and state what it cannot recover.

  8. Standard deviation and data comparison

    Measure spread around the mean and distinguish an exact data calculation from a grouped-data estimate.

  9. Single-event probability

    List the sample space and justify equal likelihood before counting favourable outcomes.

  10. Combined events and conditional branches

    Distinguish mutually exclusive events from independent events and multiply probabilities along a stated branch.

Common mistakes

  • Mistake Independent events cannot happen together.

    Correct idea Mutually exclusive events cannot happen together, so P(A and B) = 0. Independent events can happen together: one happening does not change the probability of the other, so P(A and B) = P(A) × P(B). For example, getting a head when tossing a coin and a 6 when rolling a die are independent and can happen together.

What the syllabus asks

From the G3 Mathematics 2027 syllabus

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  • Simple concepts in collecting, classifying and tabulating data
  • Analysis and interpretation of: - tables - bar graphs - pictograms - line graphs - pie charts - dot diagrams - histograms with equal class intervals - stem-and-leaf diagrams - cumulative frequency diagrams - box-and-whisker plots
  • Purposes and uses, advantages and disadvantages of the different forms of statistical representations
  • Drawing simple inference from statistical diagrams
  • Explaining why a given statistical diagram leads to misinterpretation of data
  • Mean, mode and median as measures of central tendency for a set of data
  • Purposes and use of mean, mode and median
  • Calculation of the mean for grouped data
  • Quartiles and percentiles
  • Range, interquartile range and standard deviation as measures of spread for a set of data
  • Calculation of the standard deviation for a set of data (grouped and ungrouped)
  • Using the mean and standard deviation to compare two sets of data
  • Probability as a measure of chance
  • Probability of single events (including listing all the possible outcomes in a simple chance situation to calculate the probability)
  • Probability of simple combined events (including using possibility diagrams and tree diagrams, where appropriate)
  • Addition and multiplication of probabilities (mutually exclusive events and independent events)