Box and Whisker Plots
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Directions: Answer the questions.
Find your answers in the big kitty box at the end.
1. The data set 19, 19, 18, 17, 17, 14, 12, 10, 9, 9, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 is displayed in a
box-and-whisker plot. Which plot represents this data?
1.
2.
ANSWERS: 3.
4.
1.___________ 2. The box-and-whisker plot at the right shows the
ages of 25 new fans for the month of March at a
country music artist’s website.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
b.___________ What is the minimum age of the new fans?
What is the maximum age of the new fans?
What is the median age of the new fans?
What is the first quartile value for this data?
What is the third quartile value for this data?
2.a.__________ c.___________ d.___________ e.___________ 3. The box-and-whisker plot shows the number of tickets (in hundreds) sold daily at the
local theater during the summer.
Which conclusion can be made using
this plot?
1) The mean of the ticket sales is 400.
2) The range of the ticket sales is 300 to 600.
3) Twenty-five percent of the ticket sales is between 300 and 400.
4) The second quartile is 600.
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3.___________ ANSWERS: 4. Based upon this box-and-whisker plot, which statement is false?
1) The first quartile is 4.
2) The range is 12.
3) The third quartile is 11.
4) The median is 7.
4.___________ 5. This box-and-whisker plot shows the
ages of 12 people.
5.a.__________ a) What percentage of these people are age 15 or older?
b) What percentage of these people are greater than 40 years old?
b.___________ 6. These box-and-whisker plots can be used to compare the annual incomes of three
professions.
Based upon the plots, which of these
statements is true?
1) The median income for police
officers and musicians is the same.
2) The median income for nuclear engineers
is greater than the income for all musicians.
3) All nuclear engineers earn more than all police officers.
4) A musician will eventually earn more than a police officer.
6.___________ 7. The box-and-whisker plot at the right shows the results of
a college Calculus pre-test given to 240 students.
a) How many students scored above 70?
b) What percent of the students scored between 40 and 70?
c) What was the lowest score?
d) What percent of the students scored below 60?
e) What was the range of the scores on the test?
7.a.__________ b.___________ c.___________ d.___________ e.___________ Bonus: _____________ All Rights Reserved © MathBits.com
Box and Whisker Plots
- Kitty Box ANSWERS
Find your answers in the kitty box. As a BONUS, add up the left over answers.
Answers may be used
more than once.
4 BONUS:
1 3 42 55
20
60 2 75
30
50 10
80
90
15
25 70 40
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