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Box Plots Practice and Analysis

This document contains sample questions about analyzing and interpreting box plots. It includes questions about drawing box plots from data sets, calculating the median, interquartile range and range from box plots, comparing multiple box plots, using box plots to analyze real world data sets about football passes, daily rainfall and house prices. It also includes questions about calculating probabilities of outcomes when randomly selecting values from a box plot distribution.

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Box Plots Practice and Analysis

This document contains sample questions about analyzing and interpreting box plots. It includes questions about drawing box plots from data sets, calculating the median, interquartile range and range from box plots, comparing multiple box plots, using box plots to analyze real world data sets about football passes, daily rainfall and house prices. It also includes questions about calculating probabilities of outcomes when randomly selecting values from a box plot distribution.

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Box Plots
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Workout

Question 1: Draw a box plot for each of the following.

(a) (b) (c)

Question 2: For each box plot below, Gind the (i) median, (ii) interquartile range, (iii) range

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

Question 3: Draw a box plot for each of the following.

(a) (b) (c)

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Box Plots
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Question 4: Draw a box plot for each set of data

(a) 8, 10, 13, 14, 14, 15, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 29, 35

(b) 40, 80, 90, 90, 100, 120, 130

(c) 5.9, 7.3, 7.8, 8, 8.4, 8.7, 8.9, 8.9, 8.9, 9, 9, 9.1, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 9.6, 9.9, 10.5, 10.9

Question 5: Compare the distributions of each pair of box plots below.

(a) (b)

(c) (d)

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Box Plots
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Apply

Question 1: Gareth and Wayne are two footballers.


The table shows information about the number of passes they make in each
game over a season.

(a) Find the missing values from the table

(b) Using the same scale, draw box plots to represent the
data.

(c) Compare and contrast the two box plots

Question 2: Rosie is going on holiday to an island.


The box plots below show information about the daily average rainfall in May
and June on the island.

(a) What was the median rainfall in May?

(b) What was the highest rainfall in June?

(c) What percentage of days in June had


over 2.5mm of rain?

(d) What percentage of days in May had


over 2.5mm of rain?

(e) What percentage of days in May had


under 1.2mm of rain?

(f) When would you recommend Rosie


visits the island?
Explain your answer.

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Question 3: Mr Jones is an estate agent on the Isle of Man.


He has created this table to show information about the prices of houses he has
sold.
Explain how you know he has made a mistake.

Question 4: The box plot show information about the masses of apples in a crate.

Jack is going to select apples at random from the crate.


After selecting each apple, he records its mass and returns it to the crate before
picking another.
Work out the probability that:

(a) Jack picks two apples, both under 75g

(b) Jack picks two apples, both over 90g

(c) Jack picks two apples, both over 105g

(d) Jack picks two apples, one under 90g and one over 105g

(e) Jack picks three apples, all over 105g

(f) Jack picks three apples, two over 105g and one under 75g.

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