Wayne Gretzky scored 50% more points than anyone else who ever played professional Hockey during his 20 seasons in the National Hockey League. He accomplished this amazing feat while playing in 280 fewer games than Gordy Howe, who is the previous record holder. The number of games he played during each season:
79,80,80,80,74 ,80,80,79,64,78,73,78,74,45,81,48,80,82,82,70.
a) The stem and leaf plot for the data can be comfortably obtained from the excel option as follows: XL STAT option in excel as follows:
1. In excel sheet choose XL STAT
2. Then in that choose the visualizing data- uni-variate plots.
3. In univariate plot – chart -select the stem and leaf plot.
4. In quantitative data select the data set and click ok.
A summary of the statistics and a stem and leaf plot can be obtained as follows.
Answer:
15 25 25 65
10 05 20 35
25 30 45 100
First column is 6th grade, second is 7th, third is 8th and the last column is total
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