Question

Which choice below is a boxplot for the following distribution?

58, 50, 48, 46, 44, 42, 40, 38, 36, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 14
A. Boxplot A
B. Boxplot B
C. Boxplot C
D. Boxplot D
E. Boxplot E

Answer 1

Boxplot A

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer: Option 'A' is correct.

Explanation:

Since we have given that

58, 50, 48, 46, 44, 42, 40, 38, 36, 34, 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 14.

We will write in ascending order:

14 ,22 ,24 ,26 ,28,30 ,32 ,34, 36 ,38, 40, 42 ,44 ,46 ,48,50,58.

Since there are 17 terms in the above data.

So, Median would be 36.

As box plot shows the middle point of the data i.e. median.

In box plot A it shows the correct median at the middle i.e. 50% of the scores.

Hence, option 'A' is correct.