Question

The following stem-and-leaf plots compare the ages of 30 actors and 30 actresses at the time they won the Oscar award for Best Actor or Actress. Actors Stems Actresses 2 146667 98753221 3 00113344455778 88776543322100 4 11129 6651 5 210 6 011 6 7 4 8 0 (a) What is the age of the youngest actor to win an Oscar? years (b) What is the age difference between the oldest and the youngest actress to win an Oscar? years (c) What is the oldest age shared by two actors to win an Oscar?

Answer 1

The image of the stem-and-leaf plots is in the attachment.

Answer: (a) 31 years; (b) 59 years; (c) 56 years

Step-by-step explanation: Steam and leaf is a table that shows the digits of the data value split into a "stem", which represents the first digit, and a "leaf", which is the last digit.

For example, the first row of the table in the attachment, indicate a "stem" 2 and the first number of a "leaf" is 1, so the actress has 21 years.

(a) According to the table, the youngest actor to win an Oscar has a "stem" 3 and the first "leaf" from the right is 1, so the actor has 31 years.

(b) The oldest actress is 80 and the youngest is 21, so difference is:

80 - 21 = 59

The difference is 59 years.

(c) The oldest age shared by 2 actors is 56 years.