Question

In Exercise 6-8, make a box-and-whisker plot of the data.

Student’s height (in inches):$50,61,55,54,53,60,65,66,57,68$

Short answer

The box-and-whisker plot for the given data is,

Step-by-step solution

Step 1. Given Information.

The data provided is$50,61,55,54,53,60,65,66,57,68$

Step 2. Calculation.

To make a box-and-whisker plot of data

Arrange data in sequence.

$\left\{50,53,54,55,57,60,61,65,66,68\right\}$

Median$=58.5$

Upper quartile$=65.5$

Lower quartile$=53.5$

Draw the required graph.