6th Grade Math Textbook, Progress

Use the box-and-whisker plot for exercises 5–6.

5. What are the extremes of the 6. What is the median of the data?
   data? the upper and lower quartiles?

Make a box-and-whisker plot for each set of data.

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   8. 35, 30, 20, 25, 30,
      25, 15, 45, 50, 30
   
   
   
   

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The box-and-whisker plot shows how many bottles and cans

each of 11 students collected for the recycling project.

9. What does each part of the plot represent, including the points and each
   part of the box?


10. What would happen to the box if the numbers 36 and 39 were added?


11. Write 11 possible combinations of the number of cans collected and the
    number of bottles collected by each student to equal the amounts that the
    box-and-whisker plot represents.

Use mental math to find the median, lower quartile, upper quartile,

and range for each set of data.

12. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 13. 25, 30, 32, 50, 60, 100, 200, 225


13. 19, 40, 60, 75, 85, 88, 98, 99 15. 1000, 1200, 1400, 1750, 1900,
    1900, 1920

60 65 70 75 80 85 90 9 5 100 105 110 115 120 125 130 135 140

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