CK-12-Basic Probability and Statistics Concepts - A Full Course

http://www.ck12.org Chapter 7. Organizing and Displaying Data

Guided Practice

The following data represents the number of flat-screen televisions assembled at a local electronics company for a
sample of 28 days:

48 55 51 44 59 49 47

45 51 56 50 57 53 55

47 49 51 54 56 54 47

50 53 52 55 51 59 48

Using technology, construct a box-and-whisker plot for the data. What are the values for the five-number summary?

Answer:

First press

STAT

and choose Edit on the EDIT menu. Enter the data values into L1, and then press

2ND

Y=

. Press

ENTER

and make sure that your settings are as follows. Note that for Type, the middle graph in the second row is selected.

Now press

WINDOW

and make sure that your settings are as shown below: