Example:
The following 25 losses, due to wind-related property damages, were recorded to the
nearest thousand dollars.
For convenience, they have been ordered (by row).
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 5
5 6 6 8 8 9 15 17 22 24 25 28 43
SOLUTION
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| 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| 10 | |||||||||||
| 15 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| 20 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| 25 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| 30 | |||||||||||
| 35 | |||||||||||
| 40 | 3 |
Leaf unit is in thousands of dollars
Stem units are in thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of dollars. 15|2
| 15 | 2 | represents 15+2 = 17 thousand dollars. |
Example:
For each of 18 preserved cores from
oil-wet carbonate reservoirs, the amount of residual gas saturation after a solvent
injection was measured at water-flood out. Observations, in percentage of pore volume,
were:
46.9 51.5 36.4 44.5 35.7 22.0 51.2 33.5 39.3
Solution
| 2 | 2.0 | 3.5 | ||||||
| 3 | 1.5 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 5.7 | 6.4 | 7.2 | 9.3 |
| 4 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 4.5 | 5.6 | 6.7 | 6.9 | ||
| 5 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
Leaf unit is in ones and one tenth percentage
Stem units are in tens of percentage. Note that
| 2 | 3.5 | represents 23.5 percent. |