why is a stem and leaf plot called a stem and leaf plot?

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hero · Answer

:O

anonymous · Answer

It's called that because a leaf is on a stem just like in the stem and leaf plot work... The stem is the first number and the leaf is the second one... Example Stem = 1 on 12 and the leaf is 2... Get it?

anonymous · Answer

i never knew what one was, and still don't.

hero · Answer

lol, khan academy taught me

hero · Answer

Satellite, I'm surprised to know that you don't know something

hihi67 · Answer

a leaf is on a stem just like in the stem and leaf plot. what? the leaf (in the plot) is not on the stem. that made no sense.

hero · Answer

ahahaha

anonymous · Answer

Lol that's just how I was taught.. In 7th grade. It's been a while.. :P

hihi67 · Answer

any other explanations?

hihi67 · Answer

please?

hero · Answer

I think this stuff was in my 7th grade math book, but the teachers probably skipped it because they didn't know it.

hihi67 · Answer

i kinda learned it in 4th. then 5th. then 6th. then i moved. learning it again in 7th, and still don't know why its called that.

hihi67 · Answer

anyway, i still need to know why...

anonymous · Answer

1 5678
  2 78990
  3  9056821
  4  36963

does that look like a stem and leaf?  - a little perhaps

hihi67 · Answer

ummm. no?

hihi67 · Answer

that looks like some numbers. isn't the stem like, inside the leaf?

hihi67 · Answer

oooh wait! is the stem coming off the leaf? okay... get it now. oops...

hihi67 · Answer

thanks, bye!

hero · Answer

You learned it in all those grades? How many times does it take?