Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #9417: Creating box and whisker plots - Creating box and whisker plots
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-23 21:50:56+00:00
State: open
Labels: ie8, ie9, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: c_mcinnis@hotmail.com

I think that the third quartile is set wrong, in a 15 number set, the third quartile should be the mean of the 11th and 12th (looking at the solution given it is set to be between the 12th and 13th numbers at present) numbers, as 11 1/2 would be the medain number between the 7th and 15th numbers.

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=79&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=79&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=79&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B0%2C3.5%2C7%2C8.5%2C13%5D%22%2C180%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C7%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C10%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C11%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C12%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C13%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C15%5D%2C%5B%22correct-activity%22%2C%22%5B0%2C3.5%2C7%2C9%2C13%5D%22%2C62%5D%5D)

[[0,3.5,7,8.5,13],[0,3.5,7,9,13]]

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