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Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q: The Quartiles For Ungrouped Data

The document discusses quartiles, which divide a distribution into four equal parts. The first quartile (Q1) is the value below which 25% of the data falls. The second quartile (Q2) is the median. The third quartile (Q3) is the value below which 75% of the data falls. Q1, Q2, and Q3 can be calculated using the Mendenhall and Sincich method or linear interpolation. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating quartiles for different data sets.

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Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q: The Quartiles For Ungrouped Data

The document discusses quartiles, which divide a distribution into four equal parts. The first quartile (Q1) is the value below which 25% of the data falls. The second quartile (Q2) is the median. The third quartile (Q3) is the value below which 75% of the data falls. Q1, Q2, and Q3 can be calculated using the Mendenhall and Sincich method or linear interpolation. Examples are provided to demonstrate calculating quartiles for different data sets.

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The Quartiles for Ungrouped Data

The quartiles are the score points which divide a distribution into four equal
parts. Twenty five percent (25%) of the distribution are below the first quartile, fifty
percent (50%) are below the second quartile, and seventy-five percent (75%) are below the
third quartile. Q 1 is called the lower quartile and Q 3 is the upper quartile. Q 1 <Q 2 <Q 3,
where Q 2 is nothing but the median. The difference between Q 3 and Q 1 is the
interquartile range.

Since the second quartile is equal to the median, the steps in the computation of
median by identifying the median class is the same as the steps in identifying the Q 1
class and the Q 3 class.

a.25% of the data has a value ≤ Q 1


b.50% of the data has a value ≤ Q 2
c.75% of the data has a value of ≤ Q 3

Example 1:
The owner of a coffee shop recorded the number of customers who came into his
café each hour in a day. The results were 14, 10, 12, 9, 17, 5, 8, 9, 14, 10 and
11. Find the lower quartile and upper quartile of the data.

Example 2:
Find the average of the lower quartile and the upper quartile of the data.

Component Quantity
hard disk 290
monitors 370
keyboards 260
mouse 180
speakers 430

Mendenhall and Sincich Method

1
Lower Quartile (L) = Position of Q 1 = ( n+1 )
4

If L falls halfway between two integers, round up. The Lth element is
the lower quartile (Q 1 ¿.

3
Upper Quartile (U) = Position of Q 3 = ( n+1 )
4

If U falls halfway between two integers, round down. The Uth element is
the upper quartile (Q 3 ¿.

Example 3:
Given the set of data: 1, 3, 7, 7, 16, 21, 27, 30, 31
Find Q 1 andQ 3.

Linear Interpolation

Example 3:
Given the set of data: 1, 3, 7, 7, 16, 21, 27, 30, 31
Find Q 1 andQ 3 by linear interpolation.

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