Chapter 11.3, Problem 24E

To determine

To make a box-and-whisker plot.

Answer to Problem 24E

The box-and-whisker plot is made:

  

Explanation of Solution

Given information:

The following data is given:

  $255,287,299,224,200,360,231,388,318,364,381$

Formula used: Information/data provided in the question that are used to solve this particular category of solution/solution.

Calculation:

The given numbers are arranged in ascending order:

  $200,224,231,255,287,299,318,360,364,381,388$

The median is $299$

The lower quartile is $231$ and the upper quartile is $364$ .

The box and whisker plot is made by joining the upper and lower quartile by a box and the extreme highest and lowest values are joined by a line, called the whisker.