Box and Whisker Plots
The box plot below gives student height in inches. Use the box plot to answer the questions below. What is the median? 62 What is the lower quartile? 60 What is the upper quartile? 64 What is the minimum value? 58 What is the maximum value? 66 The above 5 values are called the: 5 Number Summary What is the range of the data? 8 What percentage of data is below the upper quartile? 75% What percentage of data is located between Q1 and Q2? 25% What percentage of data is above the median? 50% What percentage of data is below LQ? 25% Where does the middle 50% of the data lie? The Box Label the box plot. Click on each dot to label the UQ, Min, Max, LQ, and Median. Min Max Median UQ LQ Find the 5 number summary for the following set of data.12, 15, 9, 5, 17, 16, 10, 11, 4, 8, 9, 20, 12 Minimum: 4Lower Quartile: 8.5Median: 11Upper Quartile: 15.5Maximum: 20 The box plots above show the sales for granola bars from a regular brand and an all natural brand. Based on the box plots above, which brand do you think is more popular? Justify your answer using complete sentences. The stacked box plots above show the sales of granola bars- a regular and an all natural brand. Based on these box plots, can you determine how many people bought each kind of granola bar? Why or why not? Justify using complete sentences. Which box plot has the highest median? Top plot Bottom plot A teacher compared his two history classes results on a recent test. He used online software to create the box plots below. Now, he's not sure why because he doesn't know what the box plots really tell him. He knows that the max and the min in each class are identical and the boxes look like the same shape. So, they must be really similar, right? Using complete sentences, describe the results of his class in detail. Don't tell him what the median of each class is and list those values. Use percentages in your explanation and tell him what these results really mean!