The two box-and-whisker plots below show the times in seconds for two teams in a 100 m dash. What do the interquartile ranges tell you about the two teams?

Question

erinweeks · Answer

A. Team A has more consistent times 	
	B. Team B has more consistent times 	
	C. Overall team A is faster than team B 	
	D. Overall team B is faster than team A

erinweeks · Answer

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erinweeks · Answer

@jim_thompson5910 could you help again :/

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

Do you know how to find Q1 and Q3?

erinweeks · Answer

yea kind of you have to like put the numbers in order

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

yes that's if you're given a list of numbers

what about with box and whisker plots?

erinweeks · Answer

No i dont !

jim_thompson5910 · Answer

See on team A how there's a very long whisker on the left side

the value of Q1 is where the "box" starts on the left side, so Q1 = 31

erinweeks · Answer

okay yea i see tthat

erinweeks · Answer

than team b Q1 = 29

anonymous · Answer

IQR of team A IS 3, and IQR of team B is 7. From this information, it is clear that team B has more consistent times

erinweeks · Answer

its not b though i got b wrong !

anonymous · Answer

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