Mathematics 9709 · AS & A Level · Sampling and estimation

Sampling and estimation — practice question

The back-to-back stem-and-leaf diagram below gives the loading times for an application on $61$ type $A$ smartphones and $43$ type $B$ smartphones.
(a(i))[3]

Find the median and quartiles for type $A$ smartphones.

(a(ii))[3]

Represent the data by drawing a pair of box-and-whisker plots in one diagram on graph paper.

(a(iii))[1]

Compare the loading times of these two smartphone types.

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