Name: Date: BW2 2) fie accompanying box-and-whisker plot represents the cost, in dollars, oftwelve CD's.

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Interpreting Box-and-Whisker Plots

I ) Below are the prices of snowboards at two competing snowboard stores:

MiddletownSnowboards Snowboard Central

345, 350, 356, 360, 375, 405 343, 370, 386, 392, 395, 402 25 30
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a) Identify the 5 marn statistics ofeach set of data

a) Which cost is the upper quartile?
Middletovm Snowboards Snowboard Central
b) un'at is the range of the costs of the CD's?

c) What is the median?

d) Which cost represents the 100thpercentile?

b) Draw a double box-and-wh'sker plot of the above data on the scale below. e) How many CD's cost between SI 4.50 and $26.00?

f) How many CD's cost less than $14.50?

3) The accompanying box-and-whisker plot represents the scores earned on a math test

340 350 360 370 380 390 400 410 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95100

c) What is the median price for a snowboard at Middletovm Snowboards? a) What is the median score?
(1)75 (2) 70 (3) 85 (4) 77
Vvmatis the lowest price you could pay for a snowboard at Snowboard Central?
b) What score represents the first quartile?
(l) 55 (2) 70 (3) 100 (4) 15
What is the most expensive board at Middletown Snowboards?
c) What statement is not true about the box and whisker plot shown?
(l ) 75 reprsents the mean score (3) 85 represents the 3rd quartile
is the range of prices for snowboards at Snowboard Central? (2) 100 represents the maximum score (4) 55 represents the minimum score

d) A score of an 85 on the box-and-whisker plot shown refers to:

Which price represents the 79 percentile for Middletown Snowboards? (l ) the third quartile (3) the maximum score
(2) the median (4) the mean

Which store would you rather buy a snowboard from? Why?

4) What is the median price for a snowboard at Middletown Snowboards?
7) ne accompanymgbox-and-whiskerplots nn be used to compare the annual incomes ofthræ
professions

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55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95100
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What is the median score? officer
(1) 70 (3) 77 Mi.*idan
(2) 75 (4) 85
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Annual Income
(husands of dolhrs)

S) What is the value of the third quartile shown on the box-and-whisker plot below? Based on the box-and-whisker plots, which statement is true?
(1) The median income for nuclear engineers is greater than the income of all musicians.
(2) The median income for police officers and musicians is the same.
(3) All nuclear engineers earn more than all police officers.
(4) A musician will eventually eam more than a police officer.

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(3) 10
(2) 8.5 (4) 12 8) Thedataset 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17, 17, 18, 19, 19 represents the number of hours spent on
the Intemet in a ueek by students in a mathemaucs class. Which box-and-whisker plot represents
the data?

6) A movie theater recorded the number of tickets sold daily for a popular movie dunng the month of (1)
June. The box-and-whisker plot shown below represents the data for the number of tickets sold, in 2 4 e 8 10 12 14 le IS
hundreds

(2)
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Which conclusion can be made using this plot?

(1) 'Ihe second quartile is 600.
(2) The mean of the attendance is 400. (3)
(3) The range of the attendance is 300 to 600. 2 4 a 8 10 12 14 le 16 a)
(4) Twenty-five percent of the attendance is between 300 and 400.

(4)
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