http://www.ck12.org Chapter 7. Organizing and Displaying Data
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Use technology to construct a box-and-whisker plot to display the data.
A box-and-whisker plot can be created with a TI-83 calculator as shown below:
Note that when creating a box-and-whisker plot with a TI calculator, you don’t have to actually sort the data. The
calculator will sort the data automatically when creating the box-and-whisker plot.
Example B
List the five-number summary values for the data in Example A.
The five–number summary can be obtained from the calculator in 2 ways.
a. The following results are obtained by simply using the TRACE feature and the left and right arrows:
The values at the bottom of each screen are the five-number summary.
b. The second method involves pressing
STATand using 1-Var Stats on the CALC menu for L1: