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Environmental Data Analysis

A local stream-care team has been monitoring a stream after heavy rain. Use the data to spot patterns and suggest what to investigate next. Show your working where you can.

Stream observations

The team counted litter items at the same stream bend on six afternoons. The counts were: 4, 6, 5, 4, 9, 2.

1.Put the litter counts in order from least to greatest. Then find the median.
2.Calculate the mean number of litter items found per afternoon. Show the total and division.
3.Which value is the mode of the litter counts? What does it tell the stream-care team?
4.One afternoon had 9 items, more than any other afternoon. Which measure of centre, mean or median, is affected more by this high count? Explain briefly.
  • Mean, because it uses every value in the calculation
  • Median, because it uses every value in the calculation
  • Mode, because it is the total divided by the number of afternoons

Rain after the storm

The team also recorded rainfall for five days, in millimetres: 0, 2, 2, 6, 15.

5.Find the median rainfall. Explain how you used the ordered data.
6.Calculate the mean rainfall for the five days.
7.The mean is higher than the median. Which rainfall value pulls the mean upwards most strongly?

Choose a useful display

A second site was checked on four visits. The number of native birds seen was 7, 10, 8, 11.

8.Which graph would best show how the bird count changes across the four visits?
  • A line graph, with visits in time order
  • A pie chart, because the counts make parts of a whole
  • A number line, because it shows categories
9.Calculate the range of the bird counts. What does the range tell you?
10.The team wants to know whether litter increases after rain. Suggest a fair way to collect data that would help answer this question. Include what to measure and how to keep the observations comparable.

2 printable pages

  • Environmental Data Analysis, page 1 of 2: Stream observations

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  • Environmental Data Analysis, page 2 of 2: Rain after the storm, Choose a useful display

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