Question

A. Make box-and-whisker plots to represent the temperature data for Oakville and Fairview.

B. What conclusions can you make about the temperatures in August in the two cities?
C. Luis finds that the average August temperature in Fairview in 2004 was 73°. How would including this additional data value change the box-and-whisker plot you made in part (a)? Would it change the conclusions you made in part (b)?

Answer 1

In a box plot, we draw a box from the first quartile to the third quartile. A vertical line goes through the box at the median. The whiskers go from each quartile to the minimum or maximum.

lower air temperature and less precipitation

Graphs that Describe Climate Climographs show monthly average temperatures and precipitation totals on a single graph.

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