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

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7.11 Box-and-Whisker Plots


7.11 Box-and-Whisker Plots


Here you’ll learn how to construct and interpret box-and-whisker plots.


You’re a meteorologist and you’re collecting temperature data from various locations in your state for the month of
February. You’ve collected over 2,000 temperatures at the same time each day and want to organize them to see if
there are patterns. You want to find out the lowest temperature, the highest temperature, the median temperature, the
median of the first half of the month and the median of the second half of the month. How would you organize your
data to get these answers?


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First watch this video to learn about box-and-whisker plots.


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CK-12 Foundation: Chapter7BoxandWhiskerPlotsA


Then watch this video to see some examples.


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CK-12 Foundation: Chapter7BoxandWhiskerPlotsB


Watch this video for more help.


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Khan Academy Box-and-whisker Plot

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