Lesson 17: Using Box Plots | Unit 8: Data Sets and Distributions

Open Ended

In which two sports are the players’ height distributions most alike? Explain your reasoning.

Multiple Choice

Which sport shows the greatest variability in players’ heights?

• Tennis
• Soccer
• Golf
• Basketball

Multiple Select

Here is a box plot that summarizes data for the time, in minutes, that a fire department takes to respond to 100 emergency calls. Select **all** the statements that are true, according to the box plot.

• Most of the response times are under 13 minutes.

• Fewer than 30 of the response times are over 13 minutes.

• More than half of the response times are 11 minutes or greater.

• There are more response times that are greater than 13 minutes than those that are less than 9 minutes.

• About 75% of the response times are 13 minutes or less.

Multiple Select

Pineapples are packed in 3 large crates. For each crate, the weight of every pineapple in the crate is recorded. Here are three box plots that summarize the weights in each crate. Select **all** of the statements that are true, according to the box plots.

• The weights of the pineapples in Crate 1 are the most variable.

• The heaviest pineapple is in Crate 1.

• The lightest pineapple is in Crate 1.

• Crate 3 has the greatest median weight and the greatest IQR.

• More than half the pineapples in Crate 1 and Crate 3 are heavier than the heaviest pineapple in Crate 2.