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Boxplots: 5-number summary comparison
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Wize University Statistics Textbook > Displaying & Summarizing Quantitative Data
Boxplots and Five-Number Summary
3 Activities
The number of complaints received daily over the last 20 days by two Telecommunications companies are summarized by the following boxplots.
Which of the following statements is
TRUE
?
A) The number of complaints received by Rogerz has a symmetric distribution and the those received by Belt Mobile is skewed to the right
B) Rogerz has the larger interquartile range
C) The end of the whiskers identify the outliers
D) Belt Mobile has an IQR of 10.5 and Rogerz has an IQR of 2
E) The median of Belt Mobile exceeds 75% of the daily complaints received by Rogerz
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0.5
1
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0.5
1
3.5
6
30
0.5\ \ 1\ \ 3.5\ \ 6\ \ 30
0.5
1
3.5
6
30
A total of 120 families participated in this study.
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0.5
1
3.5
6
30
0.5\ \ 1\ \ 3.5\ \ 6\ \ 30
0.5
1
3.5
6
30
A total of 120 families participated in this study.
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0.5
1
3.5
6
30
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0.5
1
3.5
6
30
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