You can read the following information from a box-and-whisker plot:
The horizontal lines on the plot correspond to the five-number summary;
The top and bottom lines are, respectively, the maximum and minimum;
The box corresponds to the interquartile range;
The line through the box corresponds to the median;
The dataset's entries fall between the top and bottom line; and
Around half of the values are inside the interquartile range.
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