Stem-and-Leaf Plots
Site: | Saylor Academy |
Course: | GKT101: General Knowledge for Teachers – Math |
Book: | Stem-and-Leaf Plots |
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Date: | Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 2:11 AM |
Description
One of the ways to organize data is a stem-and-leaf plot. Watch the video and complete the interactive exercises.
Creating a histogram
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Interpreting a histogram
Stem-and-leaf plots
Reading stem and leaf plots
Practice
The following data points represent the diagonal length (in centimeters) of each television at Electronic Emporium.
\(55,27,56,24,41,42,60,65\)
Using the data, create a histogram.
Creating a histogram - Questions
- Below is the number of pages in each of the six books that Pedro read this summer.
\( \begin{aligned} &584,201,255 \\ &44,312,334\ \end{aligned} \)
Using the data, create a histogram. - The following data points represent the number of guests at Hunter's Ribeye BBQ House each day since they opened.
\(96,279,255,254,75,211,271,291\)
Using the data, create a histogram. - Below are the lengths (in meters) of Luiza's eight drives from the last time that she played golf.
\(\begin{aligned} &213,147,156,177 \\ &130,23,78,184 \end{aligned}\)
Using the data, create a histogram. The following data points represent how many houses Gregg the Garbage Man visited each day last week.
\(12,28,33,37,23,14,9\)
Using the data, create a histogram.
Creating a histogram - Answers

Read histograms - Questions
How many vehicles are at Nam's Gas Station?
_____ vehicles
How many cherry pies have 90 or more cherries?
______ pies
How many more houses have an area between 150 and \(200 \mathrm{~m}^{2}\) than between 250 and \(300 \mathrm{~m}^{2}\)?
_____ houses
How many festivals were there?
_____ festivals
Read histograms - Answers
- There are \(\mathrm{23}\) vehicles at Nam's Gas Station.
- There are \(\mathrm{7}\) cherry pies with 90 or more cherries.
- There are \(\mathrm{8}\) more houses with an area between 150 and 200 m2 than between 250 and 300 m2.
- There were \(\mathrm{15}\) festivals.
Reading stem and leaf plots - Questions
1. A statistician for a chain of department stores created the following stem-and-leaf plot showing the number of pairs of glasses at each of the stores:
\( \begin{array}{|l|lllllll}
0 & 9 & & & & & \\
1 & 3 & 6 & 6 & 8 & & \\
2 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 5 & 6 & 9 \\
3 & 0 & & & & & \\
4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 3 & 5 & 7
\end{array} \)
Key: \(4 \mid 1=41\) pairs of glasses
How many department stores have fewer than 38 pairs of glasses?
______ department stores
2. A zookeeper published the following stem-and-leaf plot showing the number of bears at each major zoo in the country:
\(
\begin{array}{|l|llllll}
0 & & & & & & \\
1 & 8 & 8 & & & & \\
2 & 1 & 3 & 6 & 6 & 7 & 7 \\
3 & 1 & 7 & & & & \\
4 & 1 & 4 & 5 & 7 & & \\
5 & 0 & 3 & & & &
\end{array}
\)
Key: \(4 \mid 1=41\) bears
How many zoos have exactly 16 bears?
_____ zoos
3. A zookeeper published the following stem-and-leaf plot showing the number of lizards at each major zoo in the country:
\(
\begin{aligned}
&\left|\begin{array}{c|ccccc}
0 \\
1 \\
2 & 0 & 6 & 8 & 8 & 8 \\
3 & 0 & 2 & 6 & 6 & 7 \\
4 & 1 & 2 & 6 & 6 & \\
5 & & & & & \\
6
\end{array}\right| \\
&\text { Key: } 4 \mid 1=41 \text { lizards }
\end{aligned}
\)
What was the smallest number of lizards at any one zoo?
_____ lizards
4. The regional manager of a chain of department stores created the following stem-and-leaf plot showing the number of pairs of boots at each of the stores:
\(
\begin{array}{l|lll}
0 & & & \\
1 & 7 & 8 & \\
2 & 0 & 5 & 8 \\
3 & 4 & 4 & 7 \\
4 & 0 & & \\
5 & & & \\
6 & & &
\end{array}
\)
Key: \(1 \mid 7=17\) pairs of boots
How many department stores have more than 60 pairs of boots?
_____ department stores
Reading stem and leaf plots - Answers
1. There are \(\mathrm{12}\) department stores that match our question.
2. There are \(\mathrm{0}\) zoos that match our question.
3. The zoo with the fewest lizards had \(\mathrm{20}\) lizards.
4. There are \(\mathrm{0}\) department stores that match our question.