Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #9444: Creating box and whisker plots - Should this be 6,7 and not 7,9
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-24 03:47:03+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, vista, wrong-or-unclear

Plot the third quartile (halfway between the middle number and the largest number). Since there isn't a single number halfway between the median and the largest number, average the two numbers:

2,2,3,4,4,4,5,5,6,6,6,7,9,12,15

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=80&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=80&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=80&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B2%2C4%2C5%2C6.5%2C15%5D%22%2C91%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C85%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C85%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C85%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C85%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C86%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C86%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C86%5D%5D)

[[2,4,5,6.5,15]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

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