Q.2.96 - Elementary Statistics

Question

M&Ms. In the article "Sweetening Statistics-What M&M's Can Teach Us" (Minitab Inc., August 2008), M. Paret and E. Martz discussed several statistical analyses that they performed on bags of M&Ms. The authors took a random sample of $30$ small bags of peanut M&Ms and obtained the following weights, in grams (g). Construct a stem-and-leaf diagram for these weights.

Step-by-Step Solution

Answer

The required stem-leaf diagram is 

Step 1: Given Information

The data is given,

Step 2: Explanation

Place the tens digits to the left of the vertical line in the stem-and-leaf diagram, and the ones digits to the right of the vertical line in the stem-and-leaf diagram.

Create a vertical line to begin a stem-and-leaf diagram.

Place the tens digits on the left side of the vertical line and the ones digits on the right side of the vertical line for each data value.