Khan/khan-exercises — Issue #10704: Creating box and whisker plots - box/whiskers: include or exclude median?
Author: KhanBugz
Created: 2012-01-09 02:00:15+00:00
State: open
Labels: safari, snowleo, wrong-or-unclear

Reporter: servaes.tholen@gmail.com

hello!
in the box/whisker video, you exclude the median from the calculation of the first/third quartile, but in the exercises you include them (it seems - i might have it all wrong). But it seems incorrect.

thanks!

[creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=121&problem=0](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=121&problem=0&debug)

[Answer timeline](http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org/media/castles/Khan:master/exercises/creating_box_and_whisker_plots.html?seed=121&problem=0&debug&activity=%5B%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B4%2C5%2C8%2C9%2C12%5D%22%2C857%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C2%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C3%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C3%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C3%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22hint-activity%22%2C%220%22%2C4%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B4%2C5%2C8.5%2C9%2C12%5D%22%2C44%5D%2C%5B%22incorrect-activity%22%2C%22%5B4%2C5.5%2C8.5%2C9%2C12%5D%22%2C10%5D%5D)

[[4,5,8,9,12],[4,5,8.5,9,12],[4,5.5,8.5,9,12]]

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