Part 2 – Using Data

Given below is the Medals Table for Summer Olympic Games

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a) Which country had the lowest number of overall medals among the ten countries?

b) Which country/countries competed in the least number of games?

c) What is the mode in the number of games countries participated in?

d) What is the range between the gold medals awarded to the 10 countries?

e) How many countries got more silver medals than bronze medals?

f) Apart from the United States, which country/countries got more gold medals, more silver medals and more bronze medals than Great Britain?

g) In comparing the number of games a country participated in and the overall number medals received, which country did the best (i.e. highest number of medals received per game)? Show your working to justify your answer.

h) Using the given data, give TWO likely reasons why a country like Jamaica does not feature in the top 10 medals even though it does very well in athletics.

i) Using the given information, determine the medal category in which the United States far outperformed its closest competitor. Show your working to justify your answer.

j) Which 3 countries had the most evenly distributed number of gold, silver and bronze medals (i.e. least smallest range)? Show your working.