The Indian Public School – Cambridge International, Erode
Grade 8 – Mathematics – Academic Year 2025 – 2026
Statistics
Learning objectives: Unit:
1)to draw and interpret frequency polygons for discrete
Sub topic:
and continuous data.
2)to draw and interpret scatter graphs. Date given:
3)to draw and interpret back-to-back stem and leaf Date of submission:
diagram.
4)to use mode,median,mean and range to compare sets Self / Peer correction
of grouped data. ___________________
5)to choose how to represent data
1) Find the mode, median, mean and range of these numbers:
15 13 13 12 11 11 10 10 10 10 9 7 8 8 7
2) The frequency table shows the marks that students scored in an exam.
a) Write down the modal class. - _________________
b) Write down the interval where median lies.
c) Calculate the range.
d) Calculate an estimate of the mean.
3) The frequency table shows the number of books taken by students on a day from the library.
a) Write down the modal class. - _________________
b) Write down the interval where median lies.
c) Calculate the range.
d) Calculate an estimate of the mean.
4) The frequency table shows the height of students in a class.
a) Write down the modal class. - _________________
b) Write down the interval where median lies.
c) Calculate the range.
d) Calculate an estimate of the mean.
5) The frequency table shows the weight in grams of a sample of apples.
Find an estimate of the mean weight of the apples.
6) Iqbal records the weights of plums on a tree.
a) Write down the class interval that contains the median.
b) Find the range of the weight of the plums.
c) Find an estimate of the mean weight of the plums.
7) a) Draw a stem-and-leaf diagram for these grades of 11 students out of 50 marks in a recent
chemistry test:
11 47 34 21 20 36 45 48 50 34 44
b) What was the modal score? __________________
b) What was the median score? _________________
8) A class of 16 students completed a psychological test and were timed while doing so.
a) Draw a stem-and-leaf diagram for the following list of times taken, in seconds, to complete the
test:
7.2 8.9 5.8 7.4 10.3 6.1 8.3 6.2
7.4 6.7 7.2 9.1 7.4 8.3 9.4 5.7
b) What is (i) the mean (ii) the median (iii) the modal time?
9) a) Draw a stem-and-leaf diagram for the heights, in centimetres, if these 12 people:
154 147 181 149 163 168 171 175 170 174 157 154
b) What is the mean height?
c) What is the range of heights?
d) What is the modal height?
e) What is the median height?
10) A group of 12 children was randomly selected in each of two different schools. They were
asked the distance. In kilometres, that they travelled to school. The results are as follows.
KMA school: 2.1 0.9 1.0 4.1 1.5 2.2 1.6 4.6 1.8 0.8 2.5 1.7
HA School: 0.6 2.4 0.7 1.3 4.1 1.5 3.8 1.5 2.0 1.9 2.1 0.8
a) Draw a back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram for the two sets of data.
b) By comparing the median and range of the two sets of data, comment on the data set.
11) Two classes both sat a Geography exam. The results are shown below.
a) Draw a back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram to compare the two sets of results.
12) 15 students sit a Math exam and a Geography exam. Their results are
Math: 43 63 45 57 82 52 50 69 71 51 48 70 54 90
66
Geography: 42 65 75 88 73 88 57 60 72 97 79 80 62
91 51
a) Draw a back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram to show the students’ Maths and Geography
results.
b) Which exam do you think was easier? Why?
c) Work out the mean exam score for each subject. Does this support your answer to part b?
13) Students have drawn lines of best fit in these scatter graphs. Some have been drawn well,
some have been drawn badly. Write down which lines are drawn badly, and describe what is
wrong with them.
14) A group of runners recorded their resting pulse rates and the distance they run per week. The
results are shown in the scatter graph.
a) How many runner had a resting pulse rate of 63 beats per minute?
b) How many runners ran 55 km per week?
c) Describe and interpret the correlation shown in the graph.
d) One point on the graph does not fit the trend. Which point is this? Can you suggest a possible
reason why this result does not fit the trend?
e) If someone usually runs 40 kilometres in a week, what would you expect their resting pulse rate
to be?
f) If someone has a resting pulse rate of 75 how many kilometres per week do you think they might
run?
15) In a talent competition, two judges gave the 10 contestants
these scores out of 20.
a) Draw a scatter graph using the data in the table.
Use graph paper to complete this question.
b) Draw the line of best-fit on your scatter graph.
c) Judge 1 had to leave the room temporarily and Judge 2 gave
the 11th contestant a mark of 10. Use the line of best fit to
predict the mark that Judge 1 would give the 11th contestant.
16) Draw a frequency polygon to show this information in this table. Use graph paper to complete
this question.
17) The number of spectators attending a football match are shown in the table.
Draw a frequency polygon for the data. Use graph paper to complete this question.
