Use the box-and-whisker plot for exercises 5–6.
- 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.
- 35, 30, 20, 25, 30,
25, 15, 45, 50, 30
- 35, 30, 20, 25, 30,
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97, 76, 84, 112,
93, 68, 88
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The box-and-whisker plot shows how many bottles and cans
each of 11 students collected for the recycling project.
- What does each part of the plot represent, including the points and each
part of the box? - What would happen to the box if the numbers 36 and 39 were added?
- 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.
- 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 13. 25, 30, 32, 50, 60, 100, 200, 225
- 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
10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46
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