Q.2.97 - Elementary Statistics

Question

Women in the Workforce. In an issue of Science (Vol. 308, No. 5721 , p. 483), D. Normile reported on a study from the Japan Statistics Bureau of the$30$ industrialized countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) titled "Japan Mulls Workforce Goals for Women." Following are the percentages of women in scientific workforces for a sample of $17$ countries. Construct a stem-and-leaf diagram for these percentages.

Step-by-Step Solution

Answer

The required stem-and-leaf diagram is

Step 1: Given Information

The data given is,

Step 2: Explanation

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

Make a vertical line to start a stem-and-leaf diagram.

Place the tens digits to the left of the vertical line and the ones digits to the right of the vertical line for every data value.