Question

The box plot show the price of textbooks at a local high school. What range describe the middle 50% if the price (p) of the textbooks?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The question is incomplete, as the box plot is not attached.

However, the interpretation of the question is to determine the inter-quartile range (IQR) ; this represents the middle 50% of scores

To answer this question, I will make use of the attached box plot.

IQR is calculated as:

`IQR = Q_3 - Q_1`

`Q_1` and
`Q_3` are represented by the vertical edges of the rectangle in the box plot. [See attachment]

Reading
`Q_1` and
`Q_3`, we have:

`Q_1 = 37`

`Q_3 = 50`

The IQR is:

`IQR = 50 - 37`

`IQR = 13`

Hence, the range that describes the middle 50% of the attached plot is 13