Sophia Bhoria 4/23/21

Accelerated Algebra 2
Box and Whiskers Plot Notes
"boxplot"
a.k.a.______________

visually
A ______________ large
effective method of viewing a __________ amount of data.

skewed
Useful for indicating whether a distribution is _______________.

center
The ___________, spread
___________ range
and overall ___________ are easy to see.

Great for comparison of two or more datasets.

In a box and whisker plot:

median
The _____________ is marked by a vertical line inside the box.

upper and lower quartiles

The ends of the box are the __________________________________

interquartile range
The box spans the ______________________________.

whiskers
The ________________ extend to the highest and lowest data values.

The min, Q1, median, Q3 and max are called

"5 number summary"
the _____________________________.

The five number summary divides the data into

sections that each contain approximately 25% of the
data in that set.

Compare the surfboard prices of Shop A and Shop B.

Are these statements true or false?

1) Shop A has more expensive surfboards. True
2) The data from the two shops have the same range. False
3) Shop A has a wider variety of surfboards. True
4) The upper 25% of surfboards in Shop B are cheaper than the upper 25% of surfboards in Shop A. True
Example: A sample of 9 boxes of raisins has these weights (in grams):
25, 28, 29, 29, 30, 34, 35, 35, 37
Make a box plot of the data.
Median = 30
Q1 = 28.5

Q3 = 35

About what percent of the boxes of raisins weighed more than 28.5 grams? 75%

What is the interquartile range? 6.5

Example: Carl works at a computer store. He recorded the number of sales he made each month.
In the past 12 months, he sold the following numbers of computers:
51, 17, 25, 39, 7, 49, 62, 41, 20, 6, 43, 13 6, 7, 13, 17, 20, 25, 39, 41, 43, 49, 51, 62
Construct a box and whisker plot.

median = 32
Q1 = 15
Q3 = 46
6, 15, 32, 46, 62

Example:

What is the five number summary? 77, 79.5, 86.5, 90.5, 99

What is the median of the test scores? 86.5

What is the interquartile range? 11

About what percent of the test scores were above 90.5? 25%

About 50% of the test scores were above what number? 86.5