GCSE Maths Coursework-word lengths

I have just picked up my coursework in data handling. Its about 'shorter word lengths are used in magazines than newspapers'. I need some big help with this. My teacher is Dr.dolittle. He does not offer any advice or help in any topic nevermind the coursework. Can somebody help and advice please.

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whitefire

Sounds different.

If you aren't provided with any sample articles or anything, you could try getting like 2/3 magazines and a couple of newspapers and then pick an article and randomly sample (apparently the marking ppl like random samples) say 100 words from each article. Then do maybe a table of the number of words in each article with 1 letter, 2 letters, 3 letters etc.
Then u could make 2 box-and-whisker diagrams of the word lengths (one for newspapers, one for magazines) and it would show u which ones used longer words.
Like if the inter-quartile range for the Np box-and-whisker was higher than the IQR for the mags, it would show that newspapers generally used longer words.

That would probs be my way of doing it. We were encouraged to use box-and-whisker diagrams and cumulative frequency, but also something else like a histogram if we could.

Email me: [email protected] if u want.

hope that's some help.

xxJ