Question

Mr. Lowe is a school librarian. His computer kept track of the number of books checked out

each month during the last school year.
Books checked out

4,247. 4,983. 6,214. 7,500. 3,500. 2,500. 5,000. 3,876. 4,753. 2,712.

Which box plot represents the data?

Answer 1

A (top)

Explanation:

You want to know which box plot represents the data in the given list.

Median

The difference between the box plots is the location of the median.

When the data is sorted into order, it is ...

{2500, 2712, 3500, 3876, 4247, 4753, 4983, 5000, 6214, 7500}

There are an even number of elements in this list, so the median is the average of the middle two:

median = (4247 +4753)/2 = 9000/2 = 4500

The median is represented by the line inside the box of the box plot. The plot with its median at 4500 is the top one (shown in the attachment).

The top box plot represents the data.

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