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Stem-and-Leaf Plots

Learn to read a stem-and-leaf plot by combining each stem with its leaves to recover the actual data values.

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Splitting numbers into stem and leaf

A stem-and-leaf plot splits each number into a 'stem' (the leading digits, often tens) and a 'leaf' (the last digit, often ones), listing all the leaves for each stem in a row.