Boxplots Quiz

The box and whisker plot shows the number or points each member of the middle school basketball team made during the game on Saturday.

What was the greatest number of points scored by a basketball player during the game on Saturday?

• 4

• 6

• 7

• 8

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

Parallel box-and-whisker plots made from information gathered during research are shown.

What do the distributions have in common?

• range

• median

• minimum value

• maximun value

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The number of absent students in 2 homeroom classes was recorded each day for a month. The 2 sets of data are displayed in the box plots.

Mr. Lopez's class had a ________ than Mrs. Stewart's class.

• lower median

• higher median

• lower interquartile range

• higher interquartile range

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.1

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The box-and-whisker plot shown displays the number of hours 20 student athletes spend exercising during the week.

Which number best describes the range of the data in the box-and-whisker plot?

• 25

• 15

• 10

• 6

Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The table shows the number of strikeouts a baseball player had each year for 7 years.

Which box-and-whisker plot best represents the data in the table?

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Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.A.3

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.6.SP.B.5

The data set shows the weight, in pounds, of ten dogs.

77, 76, 78, 80, 72, 81, 75, 85, 89, 90

Which boxplot represents the given data?

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Tags

CCSS.6.SP.A.2

CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.6.SP.B.5