IM 6.8.17 Practice: Using Box Plots
Here are box plots that summarize the heights of 20 professional male athletes in basketball, football, hockey, and baseball.
In which two sports are the players’ height distributions most alike? Explain your reasoning.
Which sport shows the greatest variability in players’ heights? Which sport shows the least variability?
Here is a box plot that summarizes data for the time, in minutes, that a fire department took to respond to 100 emergency calls.
Select all the statements that are true, according to the dot plot.
Pineapples were packed in three large crates. For each crate, the weight of every pineapple in the crate was recorded. Here are three box plots that summarize the weights in each crate.
Select all of the statements that are true, according to the box plots.
Two TV shows each asked 100 viewers for their ages. For one show, the mean age of the viewers was 35 years and the MAD was 20 years. For the other show, the mean age of the viewers was 30 years and the MAD was 5 years. A sixth-grade student says he watches one of the shows. Which show do you think he watches? Explain your reasoning.