The table below shows the number of hours some business people in two states spend in meetings each week:

State A
21 23 24 22 24 25 23 23 22

State B
24 22 20 23 23 50 20 46 21

Part A: Create a five-number summary and calculate the interquartile range for the two sets of data. (6 points)

Part B: Are the box plots symmetric? Justify your answer. (4 points)

Question

The table below shows the number of hours some business people in two states spend in meetings each week:




State A
21 23 24 22 24 25 23 23 22 


State B
24 22 20 23 23 50 20 46 21 


Part A: Create a five-number summary and calculate the interquartile range for the two sets of data. (6 points)

Part B: Are the box plots symmetric? Justify your answer. (4 points)

phi · Answer

Create a five-number summary 

The first step is sort the numbers small to big.  
Can you do that for state A?