This box and whisker plot shows the number of false alarms a county fire department received each month during a year. Which is the only station that went a month with no false alarms?

A) Station 1
B) Station 2
C) Station 3
D) None of the stations went a month with no false alarms.

Question

This box and whisker plot shows the number of false alarms a county fire department received each month during a year. Which is the only station that went a month with no false alarms?

A) Station 1
B) Station 2
C) Station 3
D) None of the stations went a month with no false alarms.

gabylovesyou · Answer

PLEASE HELP ME

ash2326 · Answer

@gaby I'll help you but I need to know something. Can you tell me the range of all the three stations?

gabylovesyou · Answer

yes

gabylovesyou · Answer

give me a min

ash2326 · Answer

Yeah take your time:D

gabylovesyou · Answer

The range of station 1 is 8

gabylovesyou · Answer

The range of station 2 is 11

ash2326 · Answer

@Gabylovesyou
See the minimum value is 12 and max is 20, so the range if from 12 to 20

ash2326 · Answer

*is 
For station 1
Now you tell me the range of other two?

gabylovesyou · Answer

The range of station3 is 17

ash2326 · Answer

@Gabylovesyou do you know how this box and whisker plot is drawn?

gabylovesyou · Answer

ash did u recieve the link of the picture?

ash2326 · Answer

@Gabylovesyou I did receive but I wanna know if you know how to make this?

gabylovesyou · Answer

not really

ash2326 · Answer

OK Gaby, I 'll explain you how to make it, then you'll find out yourself:D

gabylovesyou · Answer

ok thank you

ash2326 · Answer

Suppose, I have the following data
No. of chocolates I eat, each day of a week
1, 5, 7, 2, 8, 4, 0
First step arrange the numbers in ascending order.
Can you do this?

gabylovesyou · Answer

yes! 0,1,2,4,5,7,8 did u say increasing order?

ash2326 · Answer

Yeah you're right. Find the median of the data?

gabylovesyou · Answer

the median is 4

ash2326 · Answer

Great, in box and whiskers. We find three medians, min value and max value
The first median is the one which divides the data into two halves, here 4 is one median
The other two medians are median of 0, 1, 2
and median of 5, 7, 8
Find the other two medians?

gabylovesyou · Answer

1 and 7

ash2326 · Answer

Great, now find the min and max value of the data?

gabylovesyou · Answer

how? depending on the medians? the medians are 1 4 and 7 do u mean that the min is 1 and the max is 7?

ash2326 · Answer

The minimum and maximum of the data?
0,1,2,4,5,7,8

gabylovesyou · Answer

ohhh ok 0 and 8

gabylovesyou · Answer

right?

ash2326 · Answer

Great we have all the data now, Let's make the box and whiskers

gabylovesyou · Answer

ok

ash2326 · Answer

Min=0
Medians= 1, 4 and 7
Max=8

ash2326 · Answer

Let's make an axis from 0 to 10
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gabylovesyou · Answer

ok

ash2326 · Answer

Now min=0 it'll be a point 
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