Question

You want to construct a box-and-whisker plot from a data set. What is the first thing you should do?

A.
Find the range of the data set.

B.
Order the data values from least to greatest.

C.
Find the interquartile range of the data set.

D.
Find the mode of the data set.

Answer 1

order the data

Answer 2

think B

Answer 3

A. It's hard to find the Range, without the data being first ordered.
B. Hmmm...
C. It's hard to find the InterQuartileRange, without the data being first ordered.
D. It's hard to find the Mode, without the data being at least sorted.

Answer 4

thank you all

Answer 5

and thanks tkhunny for explaining it