Algebra 1 - MathnMind

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Practice
Box-and-Whisker Plots
For Exercises 1–4, use the parallel box-and-whisker
plot at the right.
1. Which set of data has the greatest range?
2. Which set of data has the greatest interquartile range?
3. What percent of the data in plot A are less than 80?
4. What percent of the data in plot B are less than 80?
5. Draw a box-and-whisker plot for the data.
14, 55, 27, 32, 12, 14, 19, 32, 21, 46, 26, 19
6. Draw a parallel box-and-whisker plot for each pair of data.
Compare the data.
A: 9, 22, 16, 10, 15, 11, 18, 14, 19, 30, 23
B: 27, 49, 13, 31, 29, 33, 44, 21, 16, 22, 37
EARTHQUAKES For Exercises 7–9, use the following list of the numbers of
earthquakes measuring between 5.0–5.9 on the Richter scale for the years 1990–2000.
1635, 1469, 1541, 1449, 1542, 1327, 1223, 1118, 979, 1106, 1318
Source: USGS National Earthquake Center
7. Draw a box-and-whisker plot for the data.
8. What are the extremes of the data?
9. What is the interquartile range?
CLIMATE For Exercises 10 and 11, use the following list of all-time record high
temperatures for 50 states.
112, 100, 128, 120, 134, 118, 106, 110, 109, 112, 100, 118, 117, 116, 118, 121, 114, 114,
105, 109, 107, 112, 114, 115, 118, 117, 118, 125, 106, 110, 122, 108, 110, 121, 113, 120,
119, 111, 104, 111, 120, 113, 120, 117, 105, 110, 118, 112, 114, 114
Source: National Climatic Data Center
10. Draw a box-and-whisker plot for the data.
11. Describe the data distribution.
Record High Temperatures
100
110 114 118
128
134
120 130 140
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