Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #10564: Creating box and whisker plots - Box-and-whisker solution different from video
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-06 19:46:19+00:00
State: open
Labels: chrome, snowleo, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: estelendur@gmail.com

By the method described in the video, box-and-whisker plot quartiles are found by finding the median of each half excluding the overall median. By the method given in the solution, quartiles are found by finding the median of each half including the overall median. Pick a method and be consistent about it!

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=103&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=103&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=103&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B0%2C2%2C8%2C12%2C15%5D%22%2C727%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C120%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C124%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C127%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C129%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C131%5D%5D)

[[0,2,8,12,15]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

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