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To construct a box plot for a species, we need to calculate the following five quartiles:
Minimum: The smallest value in the dataset.
First quartile (Q1): The middle value between the minimum and the median.
Median (Q2): The middle value in the dataset, when the data is sorted in ascending or descending order.
Third quartile (Q3): The middle value between the median and the maximum.
Maximum: The largest value in the dataset.
Once we have calculated the five quartiles, we can construct the box plot as follows:
Draw a horizontal line to represent the median.
Draw a box from the first quartile to the third quartile.
Draw whiskers from the first quartile to the minimum and from the third quartile to the maximum.
Here is a table of the five quartiles for two species from the table:
Species Minimum Q1 Median Q3 Maximum
Human 59 66 69 72 86
Chimpanzee 49 52 55 57 61
Here are the box plots for the two species:
[Plot of box plot for human]
[Plot of box plot for chimpanzee]
The box plots show that the human species has a wider range of variation in height than the chimpanzee species. The human box plot also shows that there are some outliers in the human population, meaning that there are some humans who are much taller or shorter than most humans.
It is important to note that box plots can be misleading if the sample size is small. For example, if we only had a sample of 10 humans, the box plot might look different from the box plot above.
I hope this helps!