Box and Whisker Plots
This worksheet focuses on understanding and interpreting box and whisker plots, including identifying key statistical measures and comparing data sets.
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Box and Whisker Plots
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability.
1. What does the line inside the box of a box and whisker plot represent?
The mean
The median
The mode
The range
2. In a box and whisker plot, the 'whiskers' extend to the and values of the data set.
3. The interquartile range (IQR) is the difference between the quartile and the quartile.
4. Describe what a box and whisker plot visually represents about a data set.
Use the box and whisker plot below to answer the following questions.
5. What is the median of the data set shown in the box and whisker plot?
6. What is the interquartile range (IQR) of the data set?
7. What percentage of the data falls between the first quartile and the third quartile?
8. A box and whisker plot clearly shows the mean of the data.
True
False
9. Compare and contrast two different data sets using box and whisker plots. Discuss what information you can gather about the spread, center, and outliers of each data set by looking at their plots. You may sketch two hypothetical plots to support your answer.