Day 4 Lesson Box and Whisker Plot Notes Completed.notebook
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Box and Whisker Plot
A graphic way of depicting the shape of the data.
Box and Whisker Plots group a data set into fourths called quartiles.
The median is the middle quartile.
Box and Whisker Plot
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Day 4 Lesson Box and Whisker Plot Notes Completed.notebook
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Making a Box and Whisker Plot:
A store sells backpacks for the following prices:
$5, $7, $12, $18, $19, $23, $26, $36 and $42. Find the median or middle quartile: _____ (50% of the data is this number or less; and 50% of the data is this number or higher)
Find the lower quartile: _____ (25% of the data is this number or less)
Find the upper quartile: _____ (25% of the data is this number or higher)
Find the interquartile range: _____ (Represents the range of the middle 50% of the data) 10
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Price of Backpacks in dollars
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Day 4 Lesson Box and Whisker Plot Notes Completed.notebook
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Day 4 Lesson Box and Whisker Plot Notes Completed.notebook
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Day 4 Lesson Box and Whisker Plot Notes Completed.notebook
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