Box and Whisker Plot Quiz

What are the five key pieces of information needed to create a box and whisker plot?

• Minimum, maximum, mean, mode, range

• Minimum, three quartiles, maximum

• Minimum, median, mode, range, maximum

• Minimum, maximum, variance, standard deviation, mean

How is the median, or second quartile, determined in a set of numbers?

• By identifying the most frequently occurring number

• By calculating the difference between the maximum and minimum

• By finding the average of the entire set

• By finding the middle number in an ordered set

What is the first quartile in a data set?

• The largest number in the set

• The middle number of the lower half of the set

• The middle number of the entire set

• The smallest number in the set

Which value is represented by the third quartile in a box and whisker plot?

• The average of the entire data set

• The smallest number in the data set

• The most frequently occurring number

• The middle number of the upper half of the set

What is the purpose of the 'whiskers' in a box and whisker plot?

• To highlight outliers in the data

• To indicate the range of the data

• To connect the minimum and maximum to the quartiles

• To show the mean and mode