Statistics “Boxplot” help : Students in a statistics class wrote as many letters of the alphabet as they?

Published October 25, 2010

Question by Ashley Durban SA: Statistics “Boxplot” help : Students in a statistics class wrote as many letters of the alphabet as they?
Students in a statistics class wrote as many letters of the alphabet as they could in 15 seconds using
their nondominant hand. The boxplot shown below compares the number of letters written by males and
females in the sample.

-click link for boxplot-

Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

(1) The second quartile for males is higher than for females.

(2) There are no outliers in this dataset.

(3) The upper quartile for males is higher than for females.

(4) The student who wrote the least letters managed 6.

(5) Boxplots cannot be used for categorical data.

Best answer:

Answer by Stell L
It is number 2. There is an outlier on the second boxplot.

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