could someone explain the stem an leaf plot?

Question

anonymous · Answer

a stem-and-leaf plot has several purposes including:

1)  display large group of numbers
2)  demonstrate the distribution of a sample of numbers

hihi67 · Answer

okay... yah. and so i know like what it is sort of and how you write it and stuff. but what i don't get is that so for example you have this data:

17,7
13,3
14,5
17,2 and soooo forth. what do those numbers mean.. an example?
thanks !

anonymous · Answer

Given the numbers:

14, 15, 16, 24, 24, 24, 24, 26, 33, 36, 37, 31, 62

the stem-and-leaf plot would look like

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