Objectives
To make and interpret box-and-whisker plots
To find quartiles and percentiles
Box-and-Whisker Plots
In the Solve It, you may have looked at different parts of each data set in order to compare the two data sets.
Essential Understanding Separating data into subsets is a useful way to summarize and compare data sets.
Quartiles are values that divide a data set into four equal parts. The median (or second quartile,
For a set of data that has an odd number of values, you do not include the median in either half when finding the first and third quartiles.