2024 HSC Chat (5 Viewers)

[katiekms]

hahah these little jabs are just gonna make you feel like more stupid when you realise why it's C. HISTOGRAM = frequency of something. you've just assumed that the x axis is numbers when it may not be. it could be absolutely anything. e.g. if your "4" actually represents "amount of people in denial about question 15", then how can it be the median if no one is? (theoretical though because clearly someone is). on a histogram you can't make something that literally does not exist the median

yes, i know that it represents frequency. regardless, the result is the same. D is different than the other options. plus, the advanced solutions also agreed that D was the answer - tbh i trust that. you cant have a median of 0 if there are data values before and after it that are above 0. its the exact same thing with a stem and leaf plot like i said. im sorry. that’s just not how medians work. if you give me another reason that is plausible i might change my mind.

 

[sainzsgf]

i cant wait to see what nesa puts as the answer to this question and we can finally settle this debate (praying to god its c )

 

[lyingsalsa]

yo why is there so much smoke outside

mb, had a couple of ciggies for lunch

 

[Legendary16]

no? i will represent the median with a line: 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 | 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 7. you see how there are 8 values on either side?

As much as it hurts for me to say, you should ignore those who say its c because they seem to be trolling and forget how median works...I forgot why I selected c but I agree the answer's d now

 

[lyingsalsa]

same but looking at katie's and other solutions, all of them say D :/
plus I think katie got a valid reasoning

i hope its c. one of the 2 marks i dropped in multis

 

[genenian]

i cant wait to see what nesa puts as the answer to this question and we can finally settle this debate (praying to god its c )

tell me why i ticked c and then chose a.

 

[ihatehsc24]

i hope its c. one of the 2 marks i dropped in multis

what was the other one u lost mark in?

 

[katiekms]

As much as it hurts for me to say, you should ignore those who say its c because they seem to be trolling and forget how median works...I forgot why I selected c but I agree the answer's d now

true…. it definitely seems like trolling but it hurt me to see misinformation, especially after so many sources agreed with D… but you’re right, i’ll ignore it.

 

[ihatehsc24]

also i think katie is right about the mean thing, cuz if u look at the mcq for q15 2013 HSC, it's calculated in a similar way (the mean)

 

[mysterymarkmachine]

yes, i know that it represents frequency. regardless, the result is the same. D is different than the other options. plus, the advanced solutions also agreed that D was the answer - tbh i trust that. you cant have a median of 0 if there are data values before and after it that are above 0. its the exact same thing with a stem and leaf plot like i said. im sorry. that’s just not how medians work. if you give me another reason that is plausible i might change my mind.

Yes correct you can't have a median of 0. Nobody is saying the median is 0. by your working, the frequency of the median is 0. You can't make up some fantasy numbers on the x axis when each bar could mean anything. Have you ever answered those histogram questions where it asks "how many complaints because of bad service" etc.?. the reason you have got it wrong is because you've assigned it a numerical value.

if the only reason you chose D was because it looked different from all the options then I have gained a lot of confidence.

 

[mysterymarkmachine]

also i think katie is right about the mean thing, cuz if u look at the mcq for q15 2013 HSC, it's calculated in a similar way (the mean)

we aint talking about means though

 

[ihatehsc24]

we aint talking about means though

o mb i thought somewhere u mentioned average, whoops

 

[katiekms]

i just have a question. how do you make a box plot if the data isn’t numerical? say it was frequency of hair colours. how do you make that a box plot? genuinely asking.

 

[jackshlz]

Exactly. 15 is C (8 in advanced). The people who selected D honestly deserved to get it wrong for trying to be a "smartass". Like I'm pretty sure question 15 (question 8 for advanced) is an iq question. If you got that wrong, your iq is definitely below 100 (no offense). IQ questions normally ask you to find the odd one out just like this. I hope NESA doesn't award the people who selected D, it's clearly possible the boxplot can look like that. Legit I just spent 30 minutes making data sets based of this and I could literally sketch a full fledged normally distributed box and whisker plot.
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?????????????? i though it was D. its five no. summary was not the same

 

[lyingsalsa]

what was the other one u lost mark in?

the translation of the graph. made the dumbest mistake it wasnt funny

 

[jackshlz]

i just have a question. how do you make a box plot if the data isn’t numerical? say it was frequency of hair colours. how do you make that a box plot? genuinely asking.

box plots are not used for categorical data we learn that in like year 7 lol

 

[aqwerty13402]

year 11 went really fast but year 12 has felt pretty slow

Can't relate, because unfortunately both year 11 and 12 have felt never ending. i actually cant remember my life before year 11

 

[katiekms]

box plots are not used for categorical data we learn that in like year 7 lol

EXACTLY. so the point they made is null. therefore, you can assign numbers to the graph and you can make a five number summary and you can discover that D’s five number summary is different to the rest. i’m done now.

 

[aqwerty13402]

she's def state ranking

 

[katiekms]

sorry for being rude in this thread, i’m just trying to defend the right answer whilst also being scared that i lost a mark. forgive me

p.s. i love gifs now