ShmoopTube

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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Cookies.

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Because even a web browser has a sweet tooth.

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We would like to draw a box plot to display the number of delectable cookies

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devoured in each household over the holiday season.

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Which pieces of information would we need to create this graph?

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And here are the potential answers...

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It's asking us what pieces of information we need to make a box plot.

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So we're talking about something that looks like this:

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Now let's take a gander at what makes up this plot.

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The minimum and maximum, to start. Well, all of our answers except D have the max and min.

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So we can eliminate D. The box in between the min and max is made

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up of quartile 1 and quartile 3, with the middle line being the median, or Q2.

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Quartile 1 stands for the middle number between the minimum and the median.

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Quartile 3 is the middle number between the median and the maximum.

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The only answer choice that contains all of these... is B.

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