Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #10641: Creating box and whisker plots - plotting first and third quartile is wrong
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-08 06:01:45+00:00
State: open
Labels: ie8, wrong-or-unclear, xp

Reporter: narddog18501@gmail.com

According to the video for the plot and wisker plot, after plotting the median, this number is not used when plotting the first and third quartiles and for this problem that would make a single number to choose for the first and third quartiles, and the first quartile should be 5 and the third should be 8, not 7.5. So either the video is wrong or this answer is.

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=95&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=95&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=95&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B0%2C5%2C7%2C8%2C12%5D%22%2C1365%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C46%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C57%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C65%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C71%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C75%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C78%5D%5D)

[[0,5,7,8,12]]

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