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8.2 Exercise 9

Avg difficulty 2.5

A collector of trading cards records the sale prices (in dollars) of a particular card on an online auction site, and puts the results in a stem-and-leaf plot:

0 5 8 9
1 0 0 0 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 9 9
2 0 0 0 0 5 5 9 9
3 0 0 0 5 5
4 0 0 5
5
6 0

Answer the following questions about the data:

  1. How many prices are represented?
  2. What prices represent the five most expensive cards? The five least expensive?
  3. What is the full set of data?

OpenStax Contemporary Mathematics, 8.2 Visualizing Data, exercise 9

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