The table below shows the number of hours some business people in two states spend in meetings each week:

State A

21 23 24 22 24 25 23 23 22

State B

24 22 20 23 23 50 20 46 21

Part A: Create a five-number summary and calculate the interquartile range for the two sets of data.

Part B: Are the box plots symmetric? Justify your answer.

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Karley Bell

1 October, 09:49

The table below shows the number of hours some business people in two states spend in meetings each week:

State A

21 23 24 22 24 25 23 23 22

State B

24 22 20 23 23 50 20 46 21

Part A: Create a five-number summary and calculate the interquartile range for the two sets of data.

Part B: Are the box plots symmetric? Justify your answer.

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Greyson Salas · Answer 1

Arrange data set in ascending order:

State A: 21, 22, 22, 23, 23, 23, 24, 24, 25

State B: 20, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 24, 46, 50

State A State B

minimum 21 20

1st Quartile 22 20.5

median 23 23

3rd Quartile 24 46

maximum 25 50

IQR 2 25.5