Question

Explain how you would draw a box-and-whisker plot for the data below.

33, 42, 18, 13, 8, 26, 42, 47, 28, 22, 35, 13, 29, 20, 39, 37, 10



The list shows the number of children who visited a city playground each day for two weeks.

13 24 30 25 38 26 10 9 16 35 42 31 15 42
Describe appropriate intervals for the horizontal axis for the histogram of the data.

Answer 1

For the first question, find the mean, first quartile, minimum, maximum, and third quartile, and then graph on the x-axis (a number line). Then, create a line through the median, first, and third quartile. Lastly, connect the median, first and third quartile to make a box. Google images for more details.