Indira makes a box-and-whisker plot of her data. She finds that the distance from the minimum value to the first quartile is greater than the distance between the third quartile and the maximum value. Which is most likely true?

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Connor Holloway

15 April, 03:46

Indira makes a box-and-whisker plot of her data. She finds that the distance from the minimum value to the first quartile is greater than the distance between the third quartile and the maximum value. Which is most likely true?

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Katherine Howard · Answer 1

We are given the data that says that the distance from the minimum value to the first quartile is greater than the distance between the third quartile and the maximum value. This means the mean is less than the median because the data is skewed to the left.