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Box Plot Analysis and Comparisons

This document provides a mark scheme for evaluating box plots with 7 items. It will award marks for correctly plotting the lower bound, upper bound, interquartile range (IQR), and median. It also provides examples comparing the box plots and metrics of two classes' test scores and two data sets. Key points that can be summarized are that box plots allow easy identification of outliers and comparison of data sets, but may not be useful for very small data sets due to being time-consuming to create.

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Box Plot Analysis and Comparisons

This document provides a mark scheme for evaluating box plots with 7 items. It will award marks for correctly plotting the lower bound, upper bound, interquartile range (IQR), and median. It also provides examples comparing the box plots and metrics of two classes' test scores and two data sets. Key points that can be summarized are that box plots allow easy identification of outliers and comparison of data sets, but may not be useful for very small data sets due to being time-consuming to create.

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Box Plot Mark Scheme

Correct Lower and upper bound plotted [1]

Correct IQR plotted [1]

Correct median plotted. [1]

Correct Lower and upper bound plotted (15 and 57) [1]

Correct IQR plotted (LQ = 19, UQ = 43) [1]

Correct median plotted. (Median = 30) [1]

Boys

3(a)

Girls

Boys Box Plot correct [1]

Girls Box plot correct [1]

3(b) The interquartile range of both sets of data are similar. [1]

The median for the girls suggests that they, on average,


[1]
scored better than the boys.

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Class 8A 8B
Median 55 45
4(a)
Inter-Quartile Range 20 20

Range 60 50

Both Median Correct [1]

Both IQR correct [1]

Both Ranges correct [1]

4(b) Class 8b, because they had a smaller range [1]

5(a) A [1]

The lower quartile is the same as the smallest piece of


5(b) [1]
data.
Set B had a smaller range.
5(c) [1] Range must be compared
Set A had a smaller interquartile range.
Sets A and B had the same highest data entry. [1] Highest data entry or median
Set B has a higher median compared
A box plot is a time-consuming method for representing
such a small set of data. Because of the small set of data,
6 [1] Size of data set mentioned
the box plot won’t be useful for comparing with other sets
of data.
It is however easy to draw the box plot, because each
[1] Ease of creation
result is one of the 5 parts required.
A box plot allows you to easily identify outliers. Such as [1] Ease of use and outliers
170 cm which seems to be an outlier in the data set. mentioned

7(a)

Box plot drawn correctly as shown [1]

Neither the lowest nor highest amounts will change,


7(b) [1] Range unchanged
meaning the range will not be changed
These values are lower than the LQ.
[1] IQR increases
Will increase the IQR

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