Question

There are 10 people sitting around a table at a family reunion. Their ages are 35, 2, 44, 36, 6, 7, 21, 68, 45, and 29. Based on this information, fill in the blank from the stem-and-leaf plot above: ________

Answer 1

A stem-and-leaf plot for the given ages can be created by separating the ones and tens digits.

Step-by-step explanation:

The student asked to fill in the blank of a stem-and-leaf plot with the ages of people sitting around a table at a family reunion. A stem-and-leaf plot is a way to display data that helps to visualize the distribution of numbers. Here we have the ages: 35, 2, 44, 36, 6, 7, 21, 68, 45, and 29.

To create a stem-and-leaf plot, we need to separate each number into a stem (the first digit or digits) and a leaf (the last digit). For the given ages:

• 2, 6, and 7 would have a stem of 0 (as they are less than 10).
• 21 and 29 would have a stem of 2.
• 35 and 36 would have a stem of 3.
• 44 and 45 would have a stem of 4.
• 68 would have a stem of 6.

Finally, we arrange these stems and leaves into a plot that looks like this:

• 0 | 2 6 7
• 2 | 1 9
• 3 | 5 6
• 4 | 4 5
• 6 | 8

Each 'leaf' represents a single digit in the 'ones' place, and the 'stem' represents the 'tens' place. Note that the leaves for each stem are ordered from smallest to largest.