Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #9427: Creating box and whisker plots - Box and whisker plot 3rd quartile error?
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-24 00:55:21+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: dduckett@gmail.com

Maybe I'm doing this problem incorrectly, but it seems to me that, counting 4.5 from the median (2nd quartile), the answer should be 11.5 (as opposed to 12). I have taken a screenshot if needed.

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=70&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=70&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=70&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B2%2C5%2C9%2C11.5%2C14%5D%22%2C52%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C25%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C28%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C29%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C30%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C31%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C32%5D%5D)

[[2,5,9,11.5,14]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

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