Mastering Box Plots Quiz

Which of the following is the first step in creating a box plot?

• Drawing the box

• Identifying the median

• Finding the quartiles

• Plotting the data points

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

What does the line inside the box of a box plot represent?

• The mean

• The maximum value

• The median

• The first quartile

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

If a data set has the values 5, 7, 9, 12, and 15, what is the range of the data set?

• 10

• 15

• 7

• 12

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

In a box plot, what do the ends of the whiskers represent?

• The median and the mean

• The first and third quartiles

• The minimum and maximum values

• The outliers

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

How is the interquartile range (IQR) calculated?

• Subtracting the first quartile from the third quartile

• Adding the first quartile to the third quartile

• Dividing the third quartile by the first quartile

• Multiplying the first quartile by the third quartile

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Which of the following is NOT a step in creating a box plot?

• Calculating the mean

• Identifying the median

• Finding the quartiles

• Determining the minimum and maximum values

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

What does a box plot reveal about a dataset?

• The skewness of the data

• The exact values of the data points

• The mode of the data

• The correlation between different data sets

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1

If the interquartile range (IQR) of a dataset is 8 and the first quartile is 10, what is the third quartile?

• 2

• 18

• 8

• 10

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CCSS.6.SP.B.5C

Which part of a box plot can indicate the presence of outliers?

• The length of the box

• The whiskers

• The space between the whiskers and the box

• The median line

When comparing two box plots, what can the width of the boxes indicate?

• The range of the data

• The mean of the data

• The interquartile range (IQR)

• The total number of data points

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CCSS.6.SP.B.4

CCSS.HSS.ID.A.1