Math 225N Week 3 Assignment Quartiles and Box Plots

Week 3 Assignment Quartiles and Box Plots

Question

A data set lists the number of daily emails received by employees at an office over the past few months. For this data set, the minimum is 1, the first quartile is 2, the median is 4, the third quartile is 5, and the maximum is 13. Construct a box-and-whisker plot that shows the number of emails.

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Based on the box-and-whisker plot from the solution above, what is the interquartile range of the data?

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The following frequency table summarizes a set of data. What is the five-number summary?

Value	Frequency
12	2
13	1
14	1
15	4
17	5
18	2
19	3
21	1

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Given the following list of data, what is the five-number summary?
2, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12, 12, 12, 13, 13

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Given the following frequency table of data, what is the potential outlier?

Value	Frequency
11	1
12	2
13	12
14	6
15	7
16	2
17	0
18	0
19	0
20	0
21	0
22	0
23	1

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The following frequency table summarizes a set of data. What is the five-number summary?

Value	Frequency
9	3
10	3
11	1
13	3
14	1
15	5
16	1
17	1
18	1

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A data set lists the number of hours each student, from a finance class, studied for a midterm. For this data set, the minimum is 3, the median is 6, the third quartile is 9, the interquartile range is 5, and the maximum is 17. Construct a box-and-whisker plot that shows the number of hours studied. Begin by first placing the middle dot on the median. Then work on placing the rest of the points starting with the ones closest to the median.

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A data set lists the number of extra credit points awarded on midterm scores of 15 students taking a statistics course. For this data set, the minimum is 3, the median is 15, the third quartile is 16, the interquartile range is 4, and the maximum is 19. Construct a box-and-whisker plot that shows the extra credit points awarded.

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The five number summary for a set of data is given below.

Min	Q1	Median	Q3	Max
67	68	80	81	86

What is the interquartile range of the set of data?

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The five number summary for a set of data is given below.

Min	Q1	Median	Q3	Max
54	56	80	86	87

Using the interquartile range, which of the following are outliers? Select all correct answers.

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Question

A data set lists the number of extra credit points awarded on midterm scores of 15 students taking a statistics course. For this data set, the minimum is 3, the median is 15, the third quartile is 16, the interquartile range is 4, and the maximum is 19. Construct a box-and-whisker plot that shows the extra credit points awarded.

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The following frequency table summarizes a set of data. What is the five-number summary?

Value	Frequency
8	2
9	1
10	2
11	3
12	4
13	1
14	1
16	1

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The following frequency table summarizes a set of data. What is the five-number summary?

Value	Frequency
7	2
8	3
9	2
10	3
11	3
13	1
14	1

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The five number summary for a set of data is given below.

Min	Q1	Median	Q3	Max
68	70	74	80	88

What is the interquartile range of the set of data?
Enter just the number as your answer. For example, if you found that the interquartile range was 25, you would enter 25.

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The five number summary for a set of data is given below.

Min	Q1	Median	Q3	Max
76	84	89	98	99

Using the interquartile range, which of the following are outliers? Select all correct answers.

Question

A data set lists the number of hours each student, from a chemistry class, studied for a final exam. For this data set, the minimum is 1, the median is 11, the third quartile is 12, the interquartile range is 4, and the maximum is 15. Construct a box-and-whisker plot that shows the number of hours studied.

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A data set lists the number of times a machine breaks each month in a clothing factory over the past year. For this data set, the minimum is 4, the median is 14, the third quartile is 17, the interquartile range is 6, and the maximum is 18. Construct a box-and-whisker plot that shows the number of times the machine breaks.

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