Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #10339: Creating box and whisker plots - Box and Whisker problem
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-04 22:52:50+00:00
State: open
Labels: firefox, win7, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: michaelalbrecht@gmail.com

Sal's video on Box and Whisker plots uses a method which excludes the median when determining the upper bound of the first quartile and lower bound of the fourth quartile, but the practice problem (in at least on instance) expected the alternate method of including the median for calculating these bounds. Sal even made a comment at the end of his video saying that his method was much more common, although the other method (expected by the website!) was "out there." Thank you.

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=101&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=101&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=101&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B0%2C3%2C7%2C9%2C10%5D%22%2C732%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C28%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C30%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C32%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C34%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C35%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C200%5D%5D)

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