Box Plot Vocabulary

Maximum

• The greatest value in a data set

• The least value in a data set

• The median of the lower half of an ordered data set

• The average of a data set found by finding the sum and dividing by the number of addends.

Lower Quartile

• The least value in a data set

• the median of the upper half of an ordered data set

• The median of the lower half of an ordered data set.

• The difference between the lowest and highest values

Upper Quartile

• The difference between the highest and lowest values

• The median of the upper half of an ordered data set.

• the median of the lower half of an ordered data set.

• The middle number of an ordered data set

Box Plots (or Box and Whisker Plot)

• The greatest value in a data set

• A graphic way to display median, quartiles, and extremes of a data set on a number line

• The median of the lower half of an ordered data set

• The average of a data set found by finding the sum and dividing by the number of addends.

Minimum

• The least value in a data set.

• The greatest value in a data set.

• the difference between the lowest and highest values

• the average of a data set found by finding the sum and dividing it by the number of addends.

Range

• The difference between the lowest and the highest values

• The number that appears most often.

• the least value in a data set

• the median of the lower half of an ordered data set.

Mode

• The number that appears most often

• The least value in a data set

• The middle number of an order data set

• The average of a data set found by finding the sum and dividing by the number of addends.

Mean

• The average of a data set found by finding the sum and dividing it by the number of addends.

• A graphic way to display median, quartiles, and extremes of a data set on a number line.

• The greatest value in a data set.

• The least value in a data set.

Minimum

• The least value in a data set.

• The greatest value in a data set.

• the difference between the lowest and highest values

• the average of a data set found by finding the sum and dividing it by the number of addends.

Mean

• The average of a data set found by finding the sum and dividing it by the number of addends.

• A graphic way to display median, quartiles, and extremes of a data set on a number line.

• The greatest value in a data set.

• The least value in a data set.