Box and Whisker Plots - Algebra 2

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Draw a Box and Whisker plot for the following data set.

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Put the data in numerical order (from smallest to largest) if it isn't already. In order to find the median, divide the data into two halves. In order to divide the values into quartiles, find the median of the two halves.

1st quartile: , ,

Median of 1st quartile:

2nd quartile = Median of total set:

3rd quartile: , ,

Median of 3rd quartile:

To construct the Box and Whisker Plot we use the minimum and the maximum value in the data set as the ends of the whiskers. To construct the box, we plot a line at the median of the 1st quartile, the median of our total data set, and at the median of the 3rd quartile. Then we connect the tops and bottom of the lines. The result is as follows:

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The endpoints (black dots) represent the smallest and largest values, in this case, 2 and 39.

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