Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #9863: Creating box and whisker plots - you taught us one way. the answer is the OTHER way.
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2011-12-30 02:55:54+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, other, xp

Reporter: benny23@gmail.com

hi,

you taught us to "ignore" the median when figuring out upper/lower halves. and said this is TYPICAL. but the proficiency USES the original median to calculate the lower and upper median. sigh : (

otherwise, thanks for what has been an amazing learning experience thus far.

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=183&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=183&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=183&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C8%5D%22%2C1166%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C8%5D%22%2C149%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C7%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C8%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C10%5D%5D)

[[3,4,5,6,8],[3,4,5,6,8]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0

MathJax is loaded, ready, queue length: 0