(ALGEBRA)

Measures of Spread

OBJECTIVES:
• Determine measures of spread, including the range
and interquartile range, of a set of data.
• Determine the standard deviation of a data set

BOOK REFERENCE
HMH – into Algebra:
• Unit 10 - Module 22 – Lesson 22.2 (page 616)

SUGGESTED PRACTICE:
• To Be Announced/Posted.
 PREVIOUSLY
• You related data in a scatter graph.

NOW
• You are going to represent sets of data using
measures of spread.

NEXT
• You will construct and use Cumulative Frequency
Diagrams.
 DEVELOP
Range and Interquartile Range
➢ Range
➢ Make a Box Plot
➢ Interquartile Range
 VOCABULARY
• Measures of spread
• Range
• Quartiles
• Five-number summary
• Median
• Lower quartile
• Upper quartile
• Box plot
• Interquartile range
 PREREQUISITE SKILLS
• Making inferences (deductions) about population
WARM-UP
LEARN: Range and Interquartile Range
Statisticians use measures of spread or variation to describe how widely data values
vary. One such measure is the range, which is the difference between the greatest
and least values in a set of data.
Quartiles divide a data set arranged in ascending order into four groups, each
containing about one fourth or 25% of the data. A five-number summary contains
the minimum, quartiles, and maximum of a data set.
• The median marks the second quartile, 𝑄2 , and separates the data into upper and
lower halves.
• The lower quartile, 𝑄1 , is the median of the lower half.
• The upper quartile, 𝑄3 , is the median of the upper half.
A box plot, or box-and-whisker plot, is a graphical representation of the five-number
summary of a data set. A box is drawn from 𝑄1 to 𝑄3 with a vertical line at the
median. This box represents the interquartile range, or IQR, which is the difference
between the upper and lower quartiles. The whiskers of the box plot are drawn from
𝑄1 to the minimum and from 𝑄3 to the maximum.
EXAMPLE 1 Range
EXAMPLE 2 Make a Box Plot
BOX OFFICE A financial analyst for a movie studio wants to determine how much
most of the top earning movies have grossed to compare his studio’s recent grosses.
The worldwide grosses, in millions of dollars, for the top 10 highest grossing films of
all time are given. Determine the five-number summary and draw a box plot
of the data to see the spread of the data.

Part A Determine the five-number summary.

5 5

𝑸𝟐
𝑸𝟏 𝑸𝟑

Part B Construct a box plot.

𝑸𝟏 𝑸𝟐 𝑸𝟑
min max
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MARRIAGE The average age at which women first get married differs by country. The
ages for eight countries are shown. Select the box plot for the data.
EXAMPLE 3 Interquartile Range
AUDIO Sarah wants to upload a song that she recorded and share it with her
friends. She wants to know whether her song, which is currently −𝟏𝟐 decibels on
average, is the right volume compared to other songs online so listeners do not have
to adjust their volume. She writes down the average volume of seven songs. Find
the interquartile range of these average volumes.

3 3

𝑸𝟏 𝑸𝟐 𝑸𝟑

𝐼𝑄𝑅 = 𝑄3 − 𝑄1
𝐼𝑄𝑅 = −13 − (−18)
𝐼𝑄𝑅 = 5
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WRITING Cora is writing a novel and tracks the number of pages she writes
each day for a week. The number of pages she wrote each day for a week is
shown. Find the interquartile range of the data set.

𝐼𝑄𝑅 = 5
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