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The document discusses box and whisker plots and their interpretation. It provides examples of box plots showing data such as time spent in a restaurant, test scores, ages at films, phone call lengths, and more. It asks questions about interpreting the box plots and calculating values like medians, quartiles, ranges, and percentages of the data within given intervals.

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Stats Assignment

The document discusses box and whisker plots and their interpretation. It provides examples of box plots showing data such as time spent in a restaurant, test scores, ages at films, phone call lengths, and more. It asks questions about interpreting the box plots and calculating values like medians, quartiles, ranges, and percentages of the data within given intervals.

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Topic: Box and Whisker Plot

1. The box plot shows information about the distribution of the times (in minutes) groups
of customers spend in a open-air restaurant.

(a) Calculate the interquartile range for the amount of time groups spend in this open-air
restaurant.

2.

  Minimum Lower Quartile Median Upper quartile Maximum


Time in minutes 30 45 62 82 94

On the lower half of the grid above, draw a box plot for the information in the table.

(c) Hunter thinks that the total amount of time spend by all of the customers visiting the
indoor restaurant is greater than the total amount of time spend by all of the customers
visiting the open-air restaurant. Is Hunter correct? Explain your decision.

3. A class took an English test and a Mathematics test. Both tests had a maximum possible
mark of 25. The results are illustrated below.

Compare the results.


Mathematic
English
s
Median

Lower Quartile

Upper Quartile

Range
Interquartile
Range

In general, the class tended to score better marks on the _______________ test.
4. A cinema is showing 3 films, A, B and C. The ages of people watching the films are
illustrated in the following box and whisker plots:

Answer the following question, giving reasons to support your answer?


a) Which film do you think would not be allowed to watch?
b) Which film do you think would not be allowed to watch?
c) Which film would you probably enjoy most?
5. Construct a box plot for the following data:
12, 5, 22, 30, 7, 36, 14, 42, 15, 53 and 25.
6. Solve the following question and support your answers as well.

  1.  Jason saves a portion of his salary from his part-time job in the
hope of buying a used car. He recorded the number of dollars he
was able to save over the past 15 weeks.
Dollars saved: 19, 12, 9, 7, 17, 10, 6, 18, 9, 14, 19, 8, 5, 17,

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Which box and whisker plot represents this data?
Choose:
   

   

  2.  Examine the box plot:   


(a) What is the value of the third quartile?
Choose:  2  4  7  11

(b) What is the median score?


Choose:  2  4  7  11
(c) What percent of the values are less than 4?
Choose:  25  50  75  100

(d) What is the range of the data presented in the box plot?


Choose:  2  7  10  12

  3.  A movie theater recorded the number of tickets sold daily for a
popular vampire movie during the month of December. The box plot
below shows the data for the number of tickets sold, in hundreds.

Determine whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE


regarding this box plot.
  TRUE FALSE
25% of the data is between 300 and 400
the second quartile is 600
the median is 400
the first quartile is 300
the range is 300
50% of the data is between 300 and 600
 

 
  4.  The box plot shows the ages of people attending a music concert.

(a) Which interval contains exactly 50% of the ages?


Choose:  7-15  15-33  33-40  15-40

(b) What percentage of the ages are 15 or older?


Choose:  25  35  75  85

(c) What is the median age?


Choose:  25  30  33  35

  5.  The box plot shows the lengths of cell


phone calls made by three students in a one
week period.
Which of the following statements is true?
Choose:
 All of Nikki's calls were longer than
 
all of Paula's calls.
 Paula made the fewest number of
 
calls.
 Mario made 50% more calls than
 
Paula.
 The median length of Mario's calls is
  equal to the median length of Nikki's
calls.
 
  6.  Examine the box plot:   
(a) Which interval represents the interquartile range, IQR?
Choose:  8-14  14-16  8-16  16-19

(b) What percentage of the data lies in the IQR?


Choose:  25  50  75  100

(c) Which interval could be described as being the most "clustered"


section of the data?
Choose:  5-8  8-14  14-16  16-19

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