Question

This stem and leaf plot shows the scores for the Lincoln middle school boys’ basketball team for the 2004 season.

What is the most points the team scored in a game?

Answer 1

Answer: 72

Go to the very bottom of the table, look at the stem of 7 and the leaf of 2 (largest leaf of the group). Combining the stem and leaf leads to 70+2 = 72

Answer 2

The answer is 72 .

Explanation:

A Stem and Leaf Plot is a table where you have two columns named 'stem' and 'leaf'.

In the stem column, the values are the first digit or digits of the number and the leaf column, you usually can find the last digit.

So in our plot, we can see that the first number is 42, then 45, then 49, then we move to the second row, which are, 53, 54,56 and so on.

Therefore the game with the most points will be 72.