Histogram worksheet for Statistics
Statistics reads a histogram for shape, center and spread: a long tail pulls the mean toward it, so a right-skewed set has its mean above its median. You also find the interval that holds the median, the percent of values past a cutoff, and the total count.
Also taught in Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1, each at its own level and with its own examples.
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How to do these
Bars: –––––. Which interval holds the median?
- There are 20 values, so the median is between the 10th and 11th.
- Running totals: 2, then 7, then 15.
- Both the 10th and 11th values fall in the third bar.
The answer is –.
Where students go wrong
Naming the skew for the side where the bars are tall. Skewed right means the long tail stretches to the right, so the tall bars are on the left.
Also called reading a histogram or bar graph intervals.
What you can put on this worksheet
- Reading a histogram
- Name the lower bound of the interval that holds the most values. — a histogram of 4 intervals starting at 10 →
- Make a histogram from data
- Draw a histogram of the numbers of visitors to a museum each day. Start the first bar at 20 and make each bar 10 wide. A value on the edge between two bars goes in the bar to its right: 40 belongs in the bar from 40 to 50. Data: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . →
- Percent above or below a cutoff
- The histogram groups 25 homework times, in minutes, into bars 5 wide. A value on the edge between two bars counts in the bar to its right. Of the 25 students, what percent spent less than 20 minutes? →
- The shape, and mean against median
- Describe the shape of this histogram: skewed left, skewed right or symmetric. — a histogram of 7 intervals starting at 10 → Skewed left
- Which interval holds the median
- The histogram shows how many minutes each of 19 runners took to finish a race, in whole minutes. Each bar covers ten minutes and includes its left edge but not its right. Which bar holds the middle value, once the data are put in order? → –
- Choose your own intervals
- Sort these values into equal-width intervals and show the counts as a histogram: , , , , , , , , , , , , , . → One answer: