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Box-and-whisker Plot Answer Key

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Definitions
#1 What is a box-and-whisker-plot? A diagram that summarizes data by dividing into four parts
#2 What is absolute value? The distance the number is from 0 on a number line
#3 What is Outlier? A number seperated from the rest of the data
#4 What is interquartile range? The difference between the UQ and LQ
#5 What does the median represent? The middle number in a set of data.
Five Summary Points
#1 What is LQ? The median of the lower half
#2 What is UQ? The median of the upper half
#3 What is the lower extreme of these numbers? 70,110,245,275 70
#4 What is the upper extreme of these numbers? 593, 588, 3000,6 3000
#5 What is the median of thse numbers? 375,593,398,557,485,and 420? 452.5
Miscellaneous
#1 What percent of the data falls within the UQ and the Minimum? 75%
#2 What percent of the data falls within the LQ and the UQ? 50%
#3 What percent of the data falls within the UQ and the Maximum? 25%
#4 Find the UQ of this set of data 380,350,492,363,286,1221,360,270 436
#5 Find the LQ of these numbers380,350,492,363,286,1221,360,270 350
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