Question

The box plot represents the number of minutes customers spend on hold at a company.

What is the upper quartile of the data?


3

5

6

8

Answer 1

The box of the box-and-whisker plot ends at 6, so the "upper" quartile is 6

Answer 2

The box plot should have been included in this problem.

A box plot consists of 5 numbers. From left to right.
1) minimum number
2) 1st quartile or lower quartile
3) median or 2nd quartile or middle quartile
4) 3rd quartile or upper quartile
5) maximum number