Name:____________________________ Boxplot Activity

AP Statistics

Suppose that you caught a sample of 20 fish from a very large lake that had the following lengths (in inches).

4 9 3 5 7 8 6 5 4 7 7 6 9 8 7 4 7 6 5 5

Create a five-number summary of the data and then make a boxplot. Be sure to check for outliers!

Five-number summary:
minimum = __________
first quartile = __________
median = __________
third quartile = __________
maximum = __________

Describe the shape, center, spread and any unusual values.

Can we determine if there is a mode solely from examining the boxplot?

For the following boxplots, write down the five-number summary.

Data Set A minimum = __________

first quartile = __________
median = __________
third quartile =. __________
maximum = __________
outliers= __________
10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
What is the shape and center of the distribution?

What features of the distribution can we not know for certain from just seeing the graph?

Data Set B minimum = __________

first quartile = __________
median = __________
third quartile = __________
maximum = __________
outliers= __________
10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30

Describe the shape. What attributed of the boxplot influenced you to choose that shape?
Name:____________________________ Boxplot Activity
AP Statistics

Data Set C
minimum = __________
first quartile =. __________
median = __________
third quartile = __________
maximum = __________
10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 outliers= __________

What makes Data Set C difficult to interpret? How could we fix that problem?

Construct boxplots and histograms for these data sets:

Set 1:
25 29 10 24 20 23 13 15 20
16 22 19 11 27 12 30 29 17

Set 2:
25 27 10 23 15 23 13 15 15
13 21 17 25 25 19 30 27 17

Set 3:
25 14 10 17 18 23 13 15 14
16 13 16 11 17 11 30 29 13

Set 4:
15 15 18 24 15 25 15 15 15
16 15 20 15 27 15 30 28 15

Set 5:
25 28 15 25 25 25 15 15 25
16 25 18 15 27 15 30 29 15